This wonderful event was a huge credit to DCU School of English & Dr Ellen Howley & everyone involved. I'm going home thinking about those student poems and the calamity on Lough Neagh

Today, Open Markets Institute and 13 other leading European civil society organisations publish a manifesto calling on the next European Commission to put tackling monopoly power at the heart of its economic agenda.

Read it here:

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Folks in Dublin, on 17 April, I will give the distinguished lecture UCD DeepLab - Digital Economy & Extreme Politics on FemLab.co feminist designs for work. Hope to see you there.
Register: shorturl.at/fovw2
Humanities Utrecht Media and Culture Studies UU

'It is very hard to get heard'

That's not excessive influence, it's years of banging on about one or two things and very occasionally getting some bit of progress.

Noeline Blackwell rejects that NGOs have excessive influence.

#TonightVMTV

A really informative episode - with no EU jargon

Another chapter in terrible media polling coverage this weekend. This kind of sports analysis shows a deep misunderstanding of what is happening, what is at stake AND what is affecting voting preferences.

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And in the middle of war kids are writing poems.

Friends: for those of you who have made donations—here are photos that show the good things your money is doing in Odesa, Ukraine.

Mick Clifford: Hate speech bill in danger of failing due to noise around relatively minor element irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

Here's a factsheet summarising the Ireland report for the #LocalMedia for Democracy project. Relevant for new local media schemes run by Coimisiún na Meán

We can turn the tide against the far-right.

Here's how.

Staff & students Dublin City University took part in a Poems for Palestine 🇵🇸 recital today. It included poems in English, Irish, & Arabic, desperate emails from a friend trapped in Gaza, and an oud performance by Palestinan postgrad student Sarraj.
#CeasefireNOW
#FreePalestine
Dr Ellen Howley

'Parents need to understand media literacy as they have the greatest influence over their children'.

Wise words from Sarah McKenna, 1st year student School of Comms DCU Bachelor of Arts Joint Hons writing for MediaLiteracyIreland

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We are offering a four year PhD scholarship on crisis translation, human rights, and technology. Deadline for applications is 29 April. Full details here. Reposts welcome. dcu.ie/sites/default/… SALIS at DCU DCU Research @DCU

I  debated last night School of Comms DCU Spring Series in favour of Ireland adopting effective hate speech legislation. There's a lot of hysteria online about how this legislation will 'silence' us and have a chilling effect on public discourse. This is not true. Hate speech law is... 1/3

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A Spanish magazine interviewed my cofounders of Odesa, Ukraine’s Children Poetry Studio, Oleg Suslov and Maia Dimerli. Here is what they said:

Strong legislation which can effectively tackle hate crimes and incitement to hatred is a critical part of any modern democracy. Tomorrow, as part of the Dublin City University School of Communications Spring Series, I'll take part in a discussion on the current hate speech legislation.

New article🚨: ‘Ofcom has rules on broadcast impartiality – so why is GB News getting away with breaking them?’ I explore why the channel was in breach of Ofcom’s code in 5 programmes Thread 1/7: theconversation.com/ofcom-has-rule…

Great to see so many Dublin City University students and staff come together today to support Palestinian students and call on the university to take a moral stance agains gross violations of international law and human rights

Ireland is seeking legislation to allow the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) for policing, and there currently exist little critical discussion/awareness on its dangers.

I'm hoping my piece, fresh out of press, contributes. Pls share widely

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