New podcast series explores Jolt research

Jolt has collaborated with the media-curious Off-Message on a new podcast series examining major issues in contemporary news and media. Over five episodes, Off Message’s host Pat O’Mahony will discuss the research undertaken by Jolt’s PhD researchers on surveillance, audience analytics, storytelling, collaborative journalism, and human rights.  In the first episode, Dimitri Bettoni (DCU) discusses […]

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New Publication: how migrants use social media to raise human-rights claims

Jolt ESR Sara Creta has published a research article in the journal Media, War & Conflict. The article, “I hope, one day, I will have the right to speak”, examines how migrants used the official Facebook page of UNHCR Libya to protest their conditions and raise human-rights claims. Media, War & Conflict is an international, […]

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JOLT researchers start work on Organisational Disruption

Digital technologies have placed severe pressure on the traditional business and revenue model of print journalism. However, new technologies also create opportunities for leveraging digital and data services against audience expansion and alternative revenue streams. Although individual news media have begun to experiment with new services and organizational models, research into the effectiveness of these […]

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JOLT researchers start work on New News Practices

Digital technologies have initiated new multi-media and data-driven forms of journalism, but their best-practice integration into the structures and cultures of newsrooms is poorly understood, as is their relation to the technical capabilities of newsrooms’ digital and data infrastructure. JOLT will advance technical developments for new content forms and derive new insights into the conditions […]

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This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement No 765140