Words by Charis Papaevangelou The last decade has seen the rise of technology giants, so-called “Big Tech”; along with them rose the responsibilities they carried…
Provenance is a H2020 project led by DCU FuJo. It aims to counteract the spread of online disinformation by developing new tools to help people…
Since the US Presidential re-election of Barak Obama in 2012, social media platforms have become yet another forum where elections are fought. The strategies needed…
This week FuJo in association with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland published ElectCheck2019: A Report on Political Advertising Online During The 2019 European Elections. The…
Irish 18-24s are among the most tech savvy and digitally immersed in Ireland and globally. This generation is digitally native and has a dizzying volume…
It’s almost three years since “fake news” became a major talking point and the problem seems more intractable than ever. The major online platforms are…
This week, FuJo in conjunction with the BAI, launched the annual Digital News Report (Ireland) 2019. Each year, as part of the Reuters Institute’s International…
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.…
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…