EDMO Ireland
A public consultation has opened for the National Counter Disinformation Strategy. EDMO Ireland is an invited member of the working group that is developing the strategy. Following five months of meetings and presentations, including presentations by EDMO’s Eileen Culloty and Kirsty Park, the working group came up with a scoping paper. It identifies a range […]
EDMO Ireland is pleased to partner with Media Literacy Ireland in a series of Media Literacy training workshops for community leaders, coaches, teachers and librarians. In today’s media environment, it is very important that individuals have access to good-quality information to make well-informed choices, but unfortunately, not all information has the same value, accuracy, or reliability. Therefore, […]
EDMO Ireland and FuJo made a submission to the public consultation on the Junior Cycle Digital Media Literacy Short Course that was organized by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. The development of the DML short course has been one of the most significant achievements for media literacy education in the Irish educational system and this […]
EDMO Ireland’s media literacy coordinator, Ricardo Castellini da Silva, spoke to RTÉ Brainstorm about fake viral images. After a fake image of Pope Francis in a white puffer jacket went viral, RTÉ Brainstorm wonder what the future holds for judging the veracity of digital images. DCU Professor Alan Smeaton explained that the image was successful […]
At the first meeting of the working group that will develop the National Counter Disinformation Strategy, EDMO Ireland coordinator Dr Eileen Culloty delivered a presentation on countering disinformation. The first part of the presentation highlighted key challenges and contexts including how to define the scope of the problem; common misconceptions about public receptiveness to disinformation; […]
EDMO Ireland coordinator Dr Eileen Culloty has been invited to join the working group that will develop the National Counter Disinformation Strategy. In addition to EDMO Ireland, she will represent the DCU FuJo Institute and Media Literacy Ireland. Coordinated by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, the working group includes representatives […]
EDMO Ireland and FuJo have made a joint submission to the mid-term review consultation of the National Cyber Security Strategy 2019-2024. The strategy identifies a range of measures to enhance cyber security, support the cyber security industry and research community, and advance Ireland’s international role. Given our areas of expertise in digital media literacy and disinformation, […]
EDMO Ireland and FuJo made a submission to the consultation on the national strategy for literacy, numeracy, and digital literacy that is being developed by the Department of Education and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The submission welcomes the inclusion of digital literacy in the proposed strategy as the previous strategy, which ran […]
Last week, EDMO Ireland published a report on disinformation in Ireland. It was presented at a briefing session for Irish stakeholders and special guests, Alberto Rabbacin and Laura Smillie, from the European Commission. DISINFORMATION TRENDS The report provides an overview of disinformation trends in Ireland in terms of actors, narratives, and tactics. In light of […]
An analysis by EDMO Ireland Disinformation Lead, Kirsty Park and Prof. James Kelly of DCU School of History and Geography in RTE Brainstorm shows the use of the term ‘plantation’ by far right groups in Ireland is a localised effort to peddle misinformation and racism. A number of protests outside buildings designated as temporary housing for […]