Publication type: Conference papers
Published in: ECPR General Conference
Publication year: 2019
Publication authors: Culloty, E., and Suiter, J.
Publication link: Countering the Spread of Political Disinformation
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Publication type: Conference papers
Published in: ECPR General Conference
Publication year: 2019
Publication authors: Culloty, E., and Suiter, J.
Publication link: Countering the Spread of Political Disinformation
Eileen Culloty is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications where she is Deputy Director of the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy, and Society and chair of the BA in Communication Studies. Her work focuses on disinformation, media literacy education, and the future of public media. Eileen leads the Ireland Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and serves as Co-Chair of Media Literacy Ireland, the national network for media literacy coordinated by Coimisiún na Meá...
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...
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 t...