Can you identify fake news?
25 July 2019 14:22Provenance is undertaking survey research to better understand the factors that influence people's willingness to believe and share disinformation about immigration. Led by Dublin City University and Graz University of Technology, the survey investigates the conditions under which people are more susceptible (or more resistant) to the negative impact of
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Provenance research presented at IAMCR 2019
11 July 2019 14:14A paper by Dr Eileen Culloty and Dr Jane Suiter was presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Madrid. The paper 'Beyond Fact-Checking: Incorporating Citizen Needs into Disinformation Countermeasures' was presented in the Journalism Research and Education section. Abstract: Disinformation
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DCU Researchers Invited to Speak at UN Headquarters
20 May 2019 13:49On 06 May, Dr Jane Suiter and Dr Eileen Culloty (Dublin City University) gave a presentation on anti-immigrant disinformation at the United Nations HQ in New York. The event was organised by the UN Migration Agency (IOM) to highlight the implications of technology for migration policies and practices. Other
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Concertation Meeting for Future European Media 2019
07 February 2019 10:03On 06 February 2019, Dr Jane Suiter and Dr Eileen Culloty (Dublin City University) represented Provenance at the concertation meeting in Brussels for new H2020 projects on future European media. The objective of meeting was to bring together related projects to discuss and learn from each other and to find
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Provenance Kick-Off Meeting in Dublin
19 December 2018 16:59The first meeting of the Provenance consortium took place in Trinity College Dublin on 17 and 18 December 2018. The meeting brought together the project's academic, industry, and NGO partners including: Dublin City University: Dr Jane Suiter, Dr Eileen Culloty, Dr Edward Casey, and Paulo Soncini Cibervoluntarios: Angel Sola, Jorge Rastrilla,
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Presentation on Disinformation at OECD High Level Risk Forum
06 December 2018 09:55On 05 December 2018, Dr Jane Suiter and Dr Eileen Culloty (Dublin City University) were invited to deliver a presentation on disinformation to the OECD High Level Risk Forum in Paris. The OECD High Level Risk Forum provides a platform for risk managers from government and the private sector to
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New multi-million euro project to tackle disinformation launched
01 December 2018 12:00Dublin City University is leading a €2.4 million EU project to tackle the issue of disinformation. The three-year project called Provenance is funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme and will focus on finding solutions to enable people to distinguish between original information and manipulated information or disinformation. The
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