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Eileen Culloty

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Eileen Culloty is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications and deputy director of the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy, and Society. Her research interests concern disinformation, media literacy education, and public media. Her book, co-authored with Jane Suiter, Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media (2021) was published by Routledge.

Eileen coordinates the Ireland Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory and is co-chair of Media Literacy Ireland, the national association of media literacy facilitated by Coimisiún na Meán.

She is also an member of the working-group developing the National Counter Disinformation Strategy, the EDMO working-group on media literacy standards, Meta's working group on Digital Citizenship, and the steering group of iHealthFacts.

Eileen is currently involved in the following projects:

She previously worked on H2020 Provenance and led a Broadcasting Authority of Ireland project investigating the diversity of public service media during Covid-19; the implementation of EU Code of Practice on Disinformation during Covid-19; and a Science Foundation Ireland outreach project on vaccine misperceptions.

Eileen's research has been published in Journalism, European Journal of Communication, Environmental Communication, Digital Journalism, and Critical Studies on Terrorism. Her co-authored paper on social media and political communication was awarded 3rd place in the International Communication Association's Top Three Faculty Papers for 2018.

She has a PhD in communication studies from DCU.

Book

Year Publication
2021 Culloty, E. and Suiter, J. (2021) Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media: Information Pathologies. London: Routledge. [Link]

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Lala Muradova; Eileen Culloty; Jane Suiter (2023) 'Misperceptions and Minipublics: Does Endorsement of Expert Information by a Minipublic Influence Misperceptions in the Wider Public?'. Political Communication, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2200735
2023 Jon Roozenbeek; Eileen Culloty; Jane Suiter (2023) 'Misinformation Interventions: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Implications'. EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST (PRINT), .
2021 Culloty, E (2021) 'Evaluating Conspiracy Claims as Public Sphere Communication'. Journal for Cultural Research, . https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2021.1886421
2020 O’Brien, A. and Culloty, E. (2020) 'Reporting familicide-suicide in broadcast media: An Irish case study to inform better practice'. Journalism, . https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920978028
2019 Culloty, E.; Murphy, P.; Brereton, P.; Suiter, J.; Smeaton, A.F.; Zhang, D. (2019) 'Researching Visual Representations of Climate Change'. Environmental Communication, 13 . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2018.1533877
2018 Suiter, Jane; Culloty, Eileen; Greene, Derek; Siapera, Eugenia (2018) 'Hybrid media and populist currents in Ireland's 2016 General Election'. European Journal of Communication, 33 (4). [DOI]
2019 Fisher, C.; Culloty, E.; Lee, J.Y.; Park, S. (2019) 'Regaining Control Citizens who follow politicians on social media and their perceptions of journalism'. DIGITAL JOURNALISM, 7 . [Link] [DOI]
2017 Culloty, E.; Brereton, P. (2017) 'Eco-film and the audience: Making ecological sense of national cultural narratives'. Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 16 . [Link] [DOI]
2014 Culloty, E. (2014) 'Rescuing America from Iraq: The gothic remorse of Iraq War Documentaries'. Studies in Documentary Film, 8 . [Link] [DOI]
2012 Brereton, P.; Culloty, E. (2012) 'Post-9/11 counterterrorism in popular culture: The spectacle and reception of The Bourne Ultimatum and 24'. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 5 . [Link] [DOI]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2021 Culloty, E & Suiter, J (2021) 'Anti-Immigration Disinformation' In: Routledge Companion to Media Misinformation and Populism. New York : Routledge.
2021 Culloty, E & Suiter, J (2021) 'Media Control and Post-Truth Communication' In: Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism. London : Routledge.
2020 Culloty, E & Suiter, J (2020) 'How Disinformation and Far-Right Activism is Shaping Public Debates on Immigration' In: Handbook on Migration and Technology. Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar.
2020 Culloty, E. (2020) 'Dearbhla Glynn: Documenting War and Sexual Violence' In: Women in Irish Film: Stories and Storytellers. Cork : Cork University Press.
2020 Culloty, E. (2020) 'Conspiracy and the Epistemological Challenges of Mediatised Conflict' In: Spaces of War. London : Bloomsbury.
2019 Culloty, E., & Suiter, J. (2019) 'Journalism Norms and the Absence of Media Populism in the Irish General Election 2016' In: Mediated Campaigns and Populism in Europe. Basingstoke : Palgrave. [Link]
2019 Salgado, S., Culloty, E., & St?pińska, A. (2019) 'Comparative Analysis of Election News Coverage: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of the Approach' In: Mediated Campaigns and Populism in Europe. Basingstoke : Palgrave. [Link]
2017 Culloty, E. (2017) 'Re-Looking At War: Multi-Modal Remediation as a Visual Strategy in Iraq War Documentaries' In: The Visual Politics of Wars. London : Cambridge Scholars. [Link]
2016 Culloty, E. (2016) 'The Taste Database: Taste Distinctions in Online Film' In: New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies. New York : Berghahn Books.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2020 Muradova Huseynova, L., Suiter, J. and Culloty, E. (2020) ECPR General Conference 2020 Covid-19 Disinformation and Minipublics Online, 24/08/2020-28/09/2020.
2019 Culloty, E. & Suiter, J. (2019) ECPR General Conference 2019 Countering the Spread of Political Disinformation. Presented at ECPR General Conference 2019, University of Wroc?aw, 04-07 September 2019 University of Wroc?aw, 04/09/2019-07/09/2019.
2019 Culloty, E. and Suiter J. (2019) Fifth International Journal of Press/Politics Conference Understanding Susceptibility to Anti-Immigrant Disinformation Loughborough, 15/09/2019-17/09/2019.
2019 Culloty, E. (2019) COST Network: Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy Theories about International Conflict: Challenges for Academic Research Maynooth University, 28/06/2019-.
2019 Culloty, E. & Suiter, J. (2019) International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2019 Beyond Fact-Checking and Verification: Incorporating Citizen Needs into Disinformation Countermeasures Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 07/07/2019-11/07/2019.
2018 Fisher, C., Culloty, E., & Young Lee, J. (2018) 68th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference Regaining Control: Citizens who follow Politicians on Social Media Prague, 24/05/2018-28/05/2018.
2018 Culloty, E. (2018) Media, War and Conflict Journal 10th Anniversary Conference Conspiracy and the Epistemological Challenges of Mediatised Conflict Accademia Europea Di Firenze, 22/05/2018-23/05/2018.
2018 Culloty, E. (2018) Centre for Critical Media Literacy Annual Conference Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship: Beyond Access and Skills Technological University Dublin, 19/10/2018-20/10/2018.
2017 Eileen Culloty (2017) ECPR General Conference Framing Knowledge Legitimacy in Conservation Disputes University of Oslo, 06/09/2017-09/09/2017.
2017 Eileen Culloty (2017) Future of Journalism Conference News Media Literacy for the Post-Truth Age University of Cardiff, 14/09/2017-15/09/2017.
2017 Culloty, E. (2017) Centre for Critical Media Literacy Annual Conference Heuristic and Analytical Reasoning in Identifying Online Disinformation Technological University Dublin, 20/09/2017-21/09/2017.
2016 Culloty, E. (2016) ECPR Joint Sessions 2016 Hashtag Agenda Setting During the European Refugee Crisis Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 25/04/2016-28/04/2016.
2015 Culloty, E. (2015) Military and the Media Symposium Images as Evidence: Strategies of Film-Truth in Iraq War Documentaries University of Leeds, 02/06/2015-.
2013 Culloty, E. (2013) Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media Private Criticism in the Public Sphere: User-Reviews of Political Films Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 03/05/2015-05/05/2015.
2012 Culloty, E. (2012) Unhealable Wounds: Gothic and the Question of Trauma Rescuing America from Iraq: The Gothic Aesthetic in Iraq War Documentaries University of Stirling, 24/11/2012-.
2012 Culloty, E. (2012) New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media The Taste Database: Taste Distinctions and Cultural Consecration in Online Film Reviewing University of Newcastle, 16/11/2012-.

Published Report

Year Publication
2022 Culloty, E., J. Suiter, I. Viriri and S. Creta (2022) Disinformation about migration: an age-old issue with new tech dimensions. UN IOM, .
2021 Eileen Culloty; Kirsty Park; Trudy Feenane; Charis Papaevangelou; Alex Conroy; Jane Suiter (2021) CovidCheck: Assessing the Implementation of EU Code of Practice on Disinformation in relation to COVID-19. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, . [Link]
2021 Eileen Culloty; Colm Kearns (2021) RT? and Covid-19: Diversity and inclusion and meeting public needs. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
2021 O’Brien, A. Arnold, S. Culloty, E. Naji, J. (2021) Global Alliance on Media and Gender Country Report on Ireland. UN Commission on the Status of Women, .
2020 Kirk, N., Park, K., Robbins, D., Culloty, E., Casey, E., and Suiter, J. (2020) Reuters Digital News Report 2020: Ireland. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
2019 Culloty, E., Smeaton, A., Suiter, J.,Murphy, P., Zhang, D., Brereton, P., and Robbins, D. (2019) Climate Change in Irish Media. Dublin. Environmental Protection Agency, .
2019 Kirk, N., Culloty, E., Colm, K. and Suiter, J. (2019) Reuters Digital News Report 2019: Ireland. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
2019 Kirk, N., Culloty, E., Casey, E., Teeling, L., Park, K., Colm, K. and Suiter, J. (2019) Elect Check: A Report on Political Advertising Online During the 2019 European Election. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
2018 Culloty, E., Cunningham, K., McNamara, P. & Suiter, J. (2018) Reuters Digital News Report 2018: Ireland. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .

Other Journal

Year Publication
2022 Max van Drunen; Ilaria Buri; Martina Chapman; Eileen Culloty; Ronan Fahy; Alexandra Giannopoulou; Elena Gil González; Arlette Meiring; Joanna Strycharz; Claire ten Heuvelhof (2022) 'New actors and risks in online advertising' IRIS European Audiovisual Observatory, . [Link]
2019 Culloty, E. (2019) 'Review: A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot (O'Shea 2017)' (14) . [Link]
2019 Culloty, E. (2019) 'Review: Shinners, Dissos and Dissenters: Irish republican media activism since the Good Friday Agreement' (14) .
2017 Culloty, E. (2017) 'Review: The Tragedy of the Commons: Atlantic (?’Domhnaill 2016)' (12) .
2016 Culloty, E. (2016) 'Review: Sentimentality and Difficult Art in Room (Abrahamson 2015)' (11) .
Certain data included herein are derived from the ? Web of Science (2024) of Clarivate. All rights reserved.

Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
Media Literacy Ireland Co-Chair -
International Communication Association Member -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/01/2020 UK-Ireland Knowledge Frontiers 2020 British Academy and Royal Irish Academy
01/05/2018 3rd place, Top Three Faculty Papers for 2018. International Communication Association
01/01/2014 DCU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching DCU

Committees

Committee Function From / To
DCU Futures: Transversal Skills Critical Literacy Expert Panel 01/02/2022 - 31/05/2022
Creating our Future Expert Working Group 03/12/2021 - 03/12/2021
JOLT MSCA-ITN- Management Board 01/09/2018 -
Self-Assessment Team for School of Communications' Athena Swan Bronze Award 01/02/2019 - 30/04/2019
Research and Innovation working group, DCU Strategic Planning 2017 01/03/2017 - 01/06/2017

Outreach Activities

Year Engagement Type Organisation Description
2023 Presentations/Talks to an external audience IIEA Disinformation and its Implications for Security and Defence
2023 Advisory Work National Counter Disinformation Strategy Working Group Member
2023 Other Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications Submission to the National Cyber Security Strategy 2019-2024 Mid-Term Review Consultation
2023 Other Department of Education Submission to Department of Education and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth consultation on the successor strategy to the National Strategy Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life 2011 – 2020.
2022 Educational Outreach/Public Engagement Creating our Future Member of Expert Working Group
2022 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Public Relations Institute of Ireland Diversity in the media sector.
2022 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill
2021 Presentations/Talks to an external audience STOPFARRIGHT Seminar Series Misinformation and the Far-Right
2021 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Webwise Media and Information literacy and the problems of False Information
2021 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Facebook EU Affairs Digital Citizenship Group Digital Engagement and Media Literacy Workshop
2021 Educational Outreach/Public Engagement Blanchardstown Library Disinformation in the context of European Democracy and the EU Digital Strategy.
2021 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Mary Mulvihill Association Virus Webinar: Infodemics
2020 Presentations/Talks to an external audience CEST-Elsevier Age of misinformation conference Norms and Standards in the Digital Environment
2020 Educational Outreach/Public Engagement World Economic Forum Global Shapers Panelist: Meet the Leaders Series Dublin, World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community, the role of the citizen during an infodemic,
2020 Presentations/Talks to an external audience European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) ERGA Report on Disinformation: Research & Access to Data
2020 Educational Outreach/Public Engagement Media Literacy Ireland Race and Media Webinar
2020 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Media Literacy Ireland 'News Literacy Now' Webinar
2020 Advisory Work Age Action Age Action Covid-19 Information Kit
2019 Presentations/Talks to an external audience United Nations Migration Agency Invited talk (with J. Suiter) on far-right disinformation to United Nations International Organisation for Migration
2019 Advisory Work Royal Irish Academy Royal Irish Academy Oireachtas Science Pairing Scheme
2019 Presentations/Talks to an external audience ESAF and INGSA Invited presentation (with J. Suiter) on democracy and disinformation to the European Science Advisors Forum (ESAF) and International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) Joint Meeting
2019 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Airports Council International (Europe) Invited talk on disinformation to Airports Council International (Europe)
2019 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Irish Industry Trust for IP Awareness Invited talk on piracy to Irish Industry Trust for IP Awareness
2018 Presentations/Talks to an external audience OECD High Level Risk Forum Invited talk on disinformation (with J. Suiter) to OECD High Level Risk Forum
2018 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Media Literacy Ireland Invited talk on news literacy to Media Literacy Ireland
2017 Presentations/Talks to an external audience Douglas Hyde Gallery. Invited talk on war art and photography to Douglas Hyde Gallery.

Media

Title Year Type Authors
How anti-immigrant sentiment is emboldening Ireland's far right 2023 Documentary Enda O'Dowd
Should we really give conspiracy theories more space 2023 Newspaper article (online) Joe Humphreys
News2Day at 20 2023 Television interview/panel discussion RTE News
Tools, tactics and strategies: How we can get ahead in the onlin disinfo war, 2022 Other TheJournal Good Information Project
'Drastic action': Could the Facebook block of Australian news become an issue in other countries? 2021 Newspaper article (online) O. Dwyer (TheJournal)
Do filter bubbles and echo chambers actually exist? 2021 Newspaper article (online) E. Culloty (RT? Brainstorm)
Extremist online communities in Ireland 2021 Radio Interviews RT? Radio 1 'Drivetime'
The far-right in Ireland 2021 Radio Interviews Kildare Today
Who are anti-vaxxers and how much influence do they have? 2020 Newspaper article (Print) A. Bracken (Sunday Independent)
Warning over 'infodemic' as vaccine hopes rise 2020 Newspaper article (online) E. Burnhill (RT? News online)
Vaccine task force to meet as rollout plans considered 2020 Radio Interviews RT? Radio 1 'Morning Ireland'
The rise of the far-right 2020 Newspaper article (Print) S. Moloney (Gay Community News)
Deep Fakes: Technological Advancements & Impact on Societ?y? 2020 Podcast Data Science Conversations Podcast
Young people ‘more likely’ to believe Covid disinformation, resist vaccines 2020 Newspaper article (online) Mark Hilliard (The Irish Times)
The far-right and Covid-19 2020 Radio Interviews Newstalk 'The Pat Kenny Show'
The far-right and Covid-19 2020 Radio Interviews Kildare FM 'Kildare Today'
The far-right rises 2020 Newspaper article (Print) C. Gallagher (The Irish Times)
When extremist movements infiltrate the mainstream 2020 Newspaper article (Print) K. Woods (Sunday Business Post)
The Covid-19 infodemic left people confused about what to believe 2020 Newspaper article (online) Eileen Culloty (TheJournal)
Trump lashes out with distractions and disinformation 2020 Newspaper article (Print) C. Megerian (Los Angeles Times)
American officials alarmed by arson attacks on UK cell towers 2020 Newspaper article (online) Josh Margolin and Guy Davies (ABC News)
Thinking Through the Crisis with Misinformation Researcher Eileen Culloty 2020 Podcast TASC Podcast
Eileen Culloty on countering disinformation 2020 Podcast Freelance Forum Podcast
Why do people spread the 5G conspiracy theory? 2020 Newspaper article (online) Connor Gallagher (The Irish Times)
Covid-19 conspiracy theories 2020 Television interview/panel discussion RT? Six One News
Covid-19 disinformation 2020 Radio Interviews RT? Radio 1 'News at 1'
Tackling misinformation during covid-19 2020 Newspaper article (online) John Crowley (Ethical Journalism Network)
Trust, truth and trolls with Eileen Culloty 2020 Podcast Field Day Podcast
Irish academics fill a gaping hole in election process with Fair Play Pledge 2020 Newspaper article (online) E. Burke (Silicon Republic)
Disinformation in the UK election 2019 Television interview/panel discussion RT? Primetime
Why are newspapers still getting it wrong? 2019 Newspaper article (Print) J. Burns (The Sunday Times
No more polar bears: the impact of climate change visuals 2019 Newspaper article (online) E. Culloty (RT? Brainstorm)
Why do we continually fall for fake stories and false claims? 2019 Newspaper article (online) E. Culloty (RT? Brainstorm)
The Provenance project 2018 Radio Interviews RT? Radio One Drivetime
Lack of basic understanding around "fake news" shows we must work together on digital literacy 2018 Newspaper article (Print) E. Culloty (Irish Independent)
How to prepare children for a world of fake news 2018 Newspaper article (Print) B. ORourke (The Irish Times)
Do the public have a responsibility to pay for online news? 2017 Newspaper article (online) Eileen Culloty (The Irish Times)
Is it time to treat Facebook as a traditional news publisher? 2016 Newspaper article (Print) Eileen Culloty (The Irish Times)
Funding journalism in the future must be a priority for government 2016 Newspaper article (online) Eileen Culloty (Irish Examiner)
Should Facebook and Google pay media for their work? 2021 Newspaper article (online) Culloty, E.
Tech regulation 2021 Radio interview/panel discussion The Pat Kenny Show
Anti-lockdown protesters insist they are not conspiracy theorists, 2021 Television interview/panel discussion Claire Byrne Live

Research Interests

I am interested in public good aspects of media including the impact of disinformation and its countermeasures, public interest news and media, public understanding of media (media literacy), and policy responses to changes in the media environment.


Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Ireland Hub: European Digital Media Observatory Coordinator 01/10/2021 31/03/2024
Jolt: Harnessing Digital and Data Technologies for Journalism Management Board, PhD Supervisor 01/05/2018 30/04/2022
Voices for Vaccines DCU PI 01/01/2020 31/12/2020
Covid-Check: Assessment of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation Co-PI 01/04/2021 30/09/2021
The Role of Public Service Media During COVID-19 DCU PI 01/09/2019 31/08/2020
Provenance Postdoctoral Researcher 01/12/2018 01/12/2021
Covid-19 and Social Mitigation Co-PI 01/05/2020 01/12/2020
Elect Check: Assessment of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation Co-PI 01/04/2019 01/09/2019
Reuters Digital News Report Ireland Team member 01/01/2015 01/07/2020
Changing Media Culture Co-PI 01/03/2019 01/10/2019

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Mcgrath ,John PhD Supervisor

External Collaborators

Type Name Company Role
External Caroline Fisher University of Canberra Academic
External Christina Steiner Graz University of Technology Academic