The audiences’ influence on the mainstream news agenda is significant. By providing content such as video from protests (user-generated content – UGC) and data about…
Call for papers for Workshop on Deliberative Democracy in legislative domains Title: “Deliberation in law making procedures. Enhancing Trust in modern democracies.” Venue: Dublin City University, Ireland…
In November 2018 FuJo announced it will lead a €2.4 million EU project to develop new tools for improving how information is shared and received…
This week the European Commission hosted a day-long conference on Countering Online Disinformation which featured the Director of the FuJo Institute, Dr Jane Suiter. The…
The European Election campaigns may seem like a long way off, but media, governments and citizens need to act now to ensure a healthy debate.…
In 2017, as a member of an alliance uniting 100+ journalists, I took part in the battle against “fake news” for CrossCheck during the French…
Carl O’Brien The Irish Times reports on the launch of the Hate Track findings by Dr Eugenia Siapera and her team. The Hate findings were…
Led by Dr Eugenia Siapera, the Hate Track project investigated online racist hate speech and developed a computational tool to track such contents on public Facebook pages and…
The DCU Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo) will lead a €2.4 million EU project to develop new tools for improving how information is shared and…
Earlier this month, the government launched a public consultation on the regulation of online political advertising. Submissions for consultation will inform an Open Policy Forum to be…