Since ‘news tickers’ first began to crawl along the bottom of our television screens, ‘breaking news’ has become a key element in how audiences receive…
The audience for “fake news” is small and disloyal, according to a study of online traffic in New Media & Society. “The role of audience availability in…
Two recent DCU journalism graduates, Rosanna Cooney and Catherine Devine have been awarded fellowships on the 2018 Veronica Guerin News21 programme at Arizona State University. Rosanna…
Martina Topić (Leeds Beckett University) and Niamh Kirk (Dublin City University) are seeking chapters on Media and Nationalism in the Network Society. According to the network society…
On February 12th, FuJo and the MA in Social Media Communications are hosting a guest lecture by Athina Karatzogianni (University of Leicester) and Jacob Matthews (University of…
Scenario 1. A crucial election or referendum is approaching. You feel very strongly about the issues involved and decide to actively participate in the election,…
The project is concerned with identifying the various forms of online racist hate speech, and constructing a computational tool that can track such contents on…
The free-flow of online information places a significant burden on digital audiences. In contrast to the information scarcity of the mass media era, audiences…
Journalism’s relationship with the public is at the brink of crisis, if not already in the throes. Public trust in journalism is in decline and…
A new First Draft report for the Council of Europe lays out a new definitional framework for thinking about information disorder, provides an overview of current…