DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society Institúid DCU um Meáin Todhchaí, Daonlathas agus Sochaí
DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society Institúid DCU um Meáin Todhchaí, Daonlathas agus Sochaí

Provenance: Providing Verification Assistance for New Content

Overview

The spread of disinformation online is a growing problem in Europe and beyond. The EU-funded PROVENANCE project addressed the problem by creating a service – in the form of a plug-in/personalised virtual companion – that evaluates online content.

The aim of PROVENANCE was to help citizens navigate content and develop digital literacy competencies as they browse the web and social media by prompting users to stop and think about the credibility of content It provides contextual information to citizens on the quality of content as they browse the web or social media.

The PROVENANCE Social Network Monitor verifies multimedia content by applying advanced tools for multimedia analytics. The plug-in contextualises content with relevant information such as the quality of the writing and the degree of visual manipulation.

Key Information

Funder

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825227

Participants

Professor Jane Suiter

Professor Jane Suiter is the Director of DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). She is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the public sphere. Her present research is focused on the social, political and communicative aspects of citizen participation, empowerment and direct and participative democracy. She has a particular interest in the potential of deliberation and how worked on and researcher a number of real world deliberative assemblies including We the Cit...

Dr Eileen Culloty

Dr Eileen Culloty is Deputy Director at the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) and an Assistant Professor in the DCU School of Communications. She coordinates the Ireland EDMO Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory, which aims to advance research on disinformation, support fact-checking and media literacy, and assess the implementation of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. Eileen’s book, co-authored with Jane Suiter, Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital ...

Dr Kirsty Park

Dr Kirsty Park is the Policy Lead at EDMO Ireland and a postdoctoral researcher at DCU’s Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society. Her work focuses on disinformation, media policy, and internet regulation, specialising in the Digital Services Act and the Code of Practice on Disinformation, She recently led a European Parliament study assessing the risks of gendered harms for women and girls on social media and she led the data analysis on the Reuters Digital News Report Ireland (BAI)...

Publications

Covid Check: Assessing the implementation of the EU Code of practice on disinformation in relation to Covid-19

Type: Reports

Published in: DCU FuJo and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland

Authors: Eileen Culloty, Kirsty Park, Charis Paevangelou, Trudy Feenane, Alex Conroy, and Jane Suiter

Year: 2021

URL: Resource

Countering the Spread of Political Disinformation

Type: Conference papers

Published in: ECPR General Conference

Authors: Culloty, E., and Suiter, J.

Year: 2019

URL: Resource

Disinformation and manipulation in digital media: Information pathologies

Type: Book chapters

Published in: Routledge focus on communication and society.

Authors: Culloty, E. and Suiter, J.

Year: 2021

URL: Resource

Anti-Immigration Disinformation

Type: Book chapters

Published in: Routledge Companion to Media Misinformation and Populism

Authors: Tumber, H. and Waisbord, S.

Year: 2021

URL: Resource

Countering misinformation: Evidence, knowledge gaps, and implications of current interventions

Type: Journal articles

Published in: European Psychologist

Authors: Jon Roozenbeek, Jane Suiter, Eileen Culloty

Year: 2022

URL: Resource

How Disinformation and Far-Right Activism is Shaping Public Debates on Immigration

Type: Book chapters

Published in: Handbook on Migration and Technology

Authors: McAuliffe, M.

Year: 2021

URL: Resource

Understanding Susceptibility to Anti-Immigrant Disinformation

Type: Conference papers

Published in: 5th International Journal of Press Politics Conference

Authors: Culloty, E., and Suiter, J.

Year: 2019

URL: Resource

Evaluating Conspiracy Claims as Public Sphere Communication

Type: Journal articles

Published in: Journal for Cultural Research

Authors: Culloty, E.

Year: 2021

URL: Resource

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