Dr
Eileen
Culloty
Academic biography
Eileen Culloty is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications and Deputy Director of the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy, and Society.
Her work focuses on disinformation, media literacy education, and the future of public media.
Eileen leads the Ireland Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and serves as Co-Chair of Media Literacy Ireland, the national network for media literacy coordinated by Coimisiún na Meán. In 2024, she was appointed to Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media Research, Evidence and Evaluation Working Group.
Eileen is currently involved in the following projects:
- EDMO Ireland Hub (European Commission)
- Media Information Literacy Community Connections (EMIF)
- ADAPT AI Literacy in the Classroom (Google)
Recent research on countering disinformation and promoting media literacy has been published in Political Psychology, Political Communication, and Journal for Cultural Research. Her book Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media (Routledge 2021) was co-authored with Jane Suiter.
Eileen has contributed to several expert groups, including the national working group that developed Ireland’s National Counter Disinformation Strategy, the EDMO working group on media literacy standards and best practices, Meta’s working group on EU Digital Citizenship<
Research interests
My research explores the public good dimensions of media with a focus on disinformation and its countermeasures, public interest journalism, media literacy, and media policy. I am particularly interested in how media systems serve democratic societies, how citizens engage with and understand media content, and how regulatory and educational responses can address challenges in the evolving information environment.