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About the Institute

The DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) is a research centre focused on the intersection of media, democracy, and societal challenges. Its work spans disinformation, media pluralism, digital journalism, and public deliberation.

Projects

• EDMO Ireland
• EUComMeet: Deliberative Spaces for Democracy
• ReMED: Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age
• Media Ownership Monitor
• COMDEL: Deliberation for Climate Action
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report (annual, 2015–2023)
• Provenance: Providing Verification Assistance for New Content
• Jolt: Harnessing Digital and Data Technologies for Journalism
• Media Pluralism Monitor (Ireland and EU reports)
• SCALEDEM: Scaling Deliberation
• TAMeLi: Teacher Academy for Media Literacy
• Media and Information Literacy Community Connections (MIL CC)
• ChangingTIDE: Trust in Irish Charities Amid Anti-NGO Disinformation
• EurOMo (Euromedia Ownership Monitor)
• Lit: Teacher Education in Digital and Media Literacy

Publications

• Disinformation about Migration: An age-old Issue with New Tech Dimensions
• Countering misinformation: Evidence, knowledge gaps, and implications of current interventions
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report (Ireland editions, 2015–2023)
• Covid Check: Assessing the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation during COVID-19
• Anti-Immigration Disinformation: How Far-Right Activism Shapes Public Debates
• Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media: Information Pathologies
• Understanding Susceptibility to Anti-Immigrant Disinformation
• Countering the Spread of Political Disinformation
• Monitoring Media Pluralism in the Digital Era (2022 Country Report: Ireland)
• The Impact of Charity and Tax Law on Not-for-Profit News Organizations
• Social Media and Online Hostility: Experiences of Women in Irish Journalism
• Hybrid Media and Populist Currents in Ireland’s 2016 General Election
• Elect Check 2019: Political Advertising Online During the 2019 European Elections
• CodeCheck: Platform Compliance with the EC Code of Practice on Disinformation
• Recommending Toxicity: Algorithmic Promotion of Male Supremacist Influencers on YouTube Shorts and TikTok
• Misperceptions and Minipublics: Does Endorsement by a Minipublic Influence Wider Public Opinion?
• Reporting Familicide-Suicide in Broadcast Media: An Irish Case Study
• Researching Visual Representations of Climate Change
• Eco-film and the Audience: Making Ecological Sense of National Cultural Narratives
• RTÉ and Covid-19: Diversity, Inclusion, and Meeting Public Needs
• Climate Change in Irish Media
• Where Now For Chile? Public Compliance with Difficult Political Decisions During a Pandemic
• Measuring Epistemic Deliberation on Polarized Issues: The Case of Abortion in Ireland
• Women’s Voices in a Deliberative Assembly: Gender Participation in Ireland’s Convention on the Constitution (2012–2014)
• Crisis and Populism: A Comparative Study of Populist and Non-Populist Candidates in Election Campaigns
• Hybrid Media Consumption and Production in #ge2020: The Battle to Own ‘Change’
• Polarization and Partisanship: Key Drivers of Distrust in Media Old and New
• When Mini-Publics and Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’s National Debate on Abortion
• Scaling Up Deliberation: Testing Mini-Publics’ Potential to Enhance Citizens’ Deliberative Capacity
• The Death of Conservative Ireland? The 2018 Abortion Referendum
• The Challenge of Reforming a ‘Voter-Friendly’ Electoral System: Debates Over Ireland’s Single Transferable Vote
• Quantifying National Cinema: Analysis of Irish Film Board-Funded Productions (1993–2013)
• Comparative Analysis of Election News Coverage: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations
• Terrorist Use of the Internet and Challenges of Governing Cyberspace
• Online Extremism and Terrorism Research Ethics: Researcher Safety and Informed Consent
• Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and Its Impacts
• Europe’s Online Extreme Right: A Snapshot of 2016 vs. 2018 Activity
• Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online: Annual Reviews (2016–2018)
• How Do Funding Models Shape News Organizations’ Social Media Strategies? A Comparison of Public Service and Private Media in Six Countries
• How Polarized Are Online and Offline News Audiences? A Comparative Analysis of Twelve Countries
• Comparing Legacy Media Responses to the Changing Business of News: Cross-National Similarities and Differences

Research Themes

• Disinformation and digital media manipulation
• Media pluralism and ownership transparency
• Deliberative democracy and public participation
• Populism, polarization, and political communication
• Journalism ethics, trust, and misinformation resilience
• Extremism, terrorism, and online radicalization
• Media literacy and digital citizenship
• Climate change communication and visual representation
• Gender, media, and online hostility
• Film, national cinema, and cultural policy