About
Dr John O’Sullivan has a professional background in editing and production in newspapers and magazines, and in covering computing and communication technology since the advent of the internet.
Published across a range of leading scholarly journals, his principal research areas have concerned the interplay between so-called mainstream journalism values and practices and the internet, and evolving forms of news. He has been engaged over significant periods in collaborative European-wide research on networked news and has supervised postgraduate research on news, social media and democracy.
Currently, he is Irish co-lead, focussing on news audiences, for the EU Horizon project Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age (ReMeD), which seeks to improve relations between citizens, media and digital technologies.
He has taught at postgraduate and undergraduate levels across a range of subjects, including journalism practice, journalism studies, networked news, social media, society and technology, and media theory more generally. He has held appointments over several terms as external examiner for the University of Limerick and Bournemouth University.
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ReMeD tackles existing challenges to a healthy relationship between media and democracy by taking a bold approach to improve relations between citizens, media and digital technologies. With an interdisciplinary approach and an innovative methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative methods, ReMeD gathers, analyses, compares and contrasts data on professional journalists, alternative media content producers and citizens operating in technologically mediated configurations, and on the m...