'Social media and democracy: How do we balance rights and responsibilities?'
Tickets: €5 and €3 concessions
Booking essential via: www.ria.ie
All are welcome.
This event will be followed by a wine reception.
Panellists:
Dr Maria Helen Murphy is a Lecturer in Law at Maynooth University. She researches in the areas of privacy law, information technology law, and human rights. She has recently published a new book, 'Surveillance and the Law: Language, Power and Privacy’ (2019).
Professor Brian O'Neill is Director of Research and Dean of the Graduate Research School at TU Dublin, City Campus. He has published extensively on media literacy, policy making and public interest issues in media and communications, in particular those related to children and youth. He is a member of Ireland's National Advisory Council for Online Safety, the European Commission's Expert Group for Safer Internet initiatives and Council of Europe’s Expert Group on Digital Citizenship Education. He currently chairs the Media Literacy Ireland, a multi stakeholder network promoting literacy across Ireland.
Gavin Sheridan CEO of Vislegal, a Co-founder of RighttoKnowie and a former Innovation Director of Storyful
Professor Eugenia Siapera is Professor of Information and Communication Studies and Head of the School of Information and Communication Studies, UCD. Her research interests are in the area of digital and social media, political communication and journalism. She has recently completed an IRC-funded project on racist hate speech in the Irish digital sphere and is also working on a project on the digital memory of conflict (RePAST) funded by the European Commission. She has written numerous articles and book chapters, and her most recent book is Understanding New Media (Sage, 2018, second edition). She is currently working on an edited volume on Gender Hate Online (Palgrave, 2019) with Debbie Ging.
The panel discussion will be facilitated by Helen Shaw, CEO Athena Media and member of the RIA's Social Sciences Committee
Booking via: www.ria.ie