Climate assemblies and communicative flows: A conceptual framework for studying media and communication in deliberative systems
About the Institute
DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) is a research institute at Dublin City University. It conducts interdisciplinary research on media, journalism, democratic participation, and policy, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation.
Research Areas
- Media and democracy
- Disinformation and misinformation
- Digital and media literacy
- Deliberative democracy and citizen participation
- Media pluralism and ownership
- Journalism practice and innovation
- Online extremism and terrorism
- Political communication and populism
- Gender and media
- Climate change communication
- Irish media and film policy
Key Projects
- EDMO Ireland (European Digital Media Observatory hub)
- EUComMeet: Deliberative Spaces for Democracy
- ReMED: Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age
- Media Ownership Monitor Ireland
- COMDEL: Deliberation for Climate Action
- Provenance: Providing Verification Assistance for New Content
- Jolt: Harnessing Digital and Data Technologies for Journalism
- Media Pluralism Monitor
- TeamLit: Teacher Education in Digital and Media Literacy
- Media and Information Literacy Community Connections (MIL CC)
- SCALEDEM
- ChangingTIDE
- TAMeLi: Teacher Academy for Media Literacy
Publications
The institute produces a wide range of research outputs including reports on disinformation, media trust, deliberative democracy, political communication, media policy, online extremism, and Irish media. Key series include the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report (Ireland editions), reports on the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation, and studies on media ownership and pluralism. Research also covers deliberative mini-publics, referendum debates, populism, gender representation in media, climate change communication, and terrorist use of the internet.
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