Publication type: Journal articles
Published in: Journal for Cultural Research
Publication year: 2021
Publication authors: Culloty, E.
Publication link: Evaluating Conspiracy Claims as Public Sphere Communication
Participants
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 ...
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Provenance: Providing Verification Assistance for New Content
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...
