With the Russia-Ukraine conflict, an increasing wave of disinformation started hovering around the conflict, meddling with public opinions in Europe, making even more pressing the overarching need to strengthen independent fact-checkers to ensure a continuous, in-depth, and fact-based analysis of the war-related information conveyed by media and shared online across different platforms. Responding to this
Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, has launched a public consultation on the development of a new strategy which will shape the development of public library for the next 5 years. The aim of the consultation is to seek the views of the public and understand attitudes towards the library service. The new
by Eugenia Siapera and Brendan Scally The Platforming Harm project is funded by the Irish Research Council under the COALESCE programme (Collaborative Alliances for Societal Challenges). The project co-investigators are Prof Eugenia Siapera (ICS/Centre for Digital Policy, UCD), Prof Padraig Cunningham (Computer Science, UCD), Martina Chapman, and Brendan Scally as the research assistant. Its key
“The Digital News Report Ireland 2022” report was released on June 15, 2022 and continues to offer great insight into Ireland’s news consumption habits. The report noted the smartphone as now being the device of choice in the morning for Irish news consumers, with 35% of respondents citing it as their first source of news
The European Media and Information Fund has announced the results of its first funding round Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe. The Call for Proposals is permanently open and was launched on November 2, 2021. The first cut-off date was March 2, 2022. The ongoing funding round of the Call “Boosting Fact-Checking Activities in Europe” is open until 30
Cinemagic is an award-winning film charity and the Cinemagic Belfast Festival is the leading film and television festival for young people in the UK and Ireland. Cinemagic Young Filmmaker 2022 will take place during the Cinemagic Belfast Festival in October 2022 and Cinemagic is looking for imaginative and original films made by young people to
Making Sense of Media (MSOM) is Ofcom’s programme of work to help improve the online skills, knowledge and understanding of UK adults and children. In December 2021, they published their Approach to Online Media Literacy, detailing priorities across five pillars of work (engage, initiate, establish, evaluate, and research). On May 31, Ofcom published an update on
In response to the war in Ukraine, the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) established a taskforce to understand disinformation trends, and issued a public call for information on media literacy initiatives during spring 2022. The results of the mapping are now available. A fairly diverse range of organisations became involved in media literacy initiatives in response to