Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?
“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
Political ads are banned from TV and radio, but candidates and parties are free to run any ads they want online – and more are choosing videos
For practical reasons, it’s hard to challenge the sea of misinformation in these rambling video monologues.
Michael D Higgins may have won the race to the Áras, but Peter Casey took the podium in the media, garnering the most coverage of any candidate, writes a media analyst and DCU researcher.
How can the state give space to citizen journalism to take different approaches from the mainstream media, and provide counternarratives and challenge authorities, while imposing some accountability?
An analysis of articles from nine major news outlets from 9 to 24 September, by a PhD researcher at DCU School of Communications.