Jane Suiter

@janesuit.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Communication, Democracy at Dublin C Uni || Director FuJo Future Media Democracy Society || Deliberation || Citizens Assembly|| Disinformation

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Jane Suiter is an Irish political scientist, professor and director of Dublin City University's Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society ("FuJo") and research lead of Ireland's Constitutional Convention and the Citizens' Assembly. She is the co-author or co-editor of three academic books and one guide book, and over 40 journal articles. In December 2020, she was named "Researcher of the Year" by the Irish Research Council and in February 2021, she was promoted to the position of professor by DCU. .. more

Political science 44%

Communication & Media Studies 26%

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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 8h

Agree And politicians too

Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 8h

Media outlets need to break ties with X

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Una Mullally: Media outlets need to break ties with X

The presence of media outlets on X does not have a diluting effect on the concentration of misinformation on the platform. If it did, then we wouldn’t be where we are

www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Jane Suiter, Ben Tonra

Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 8h

Media outlets need to break ties with X

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Una Mullally: Media outlets need to break ties with X

The presence of media outlets on X does not have a diluting effect on the concentration of misinformation on the platform. If it did, then we wouldn’t be where we are

www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Colin Murray, Lesley A. Hall , and 3 more Steve Peers, Colin Murray, Lesley A. Hall, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Jane Suiter, Elke Weissmann

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19h

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Reposted by Edgar Morgenroth

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 22h

It’s not just the Telegraph it looks like deliberate destruction from within, driven by hard right Robbie Gibb PR friends on an odd committee. Alan Rusbridger worth listening to here podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/m...

Reposted by John Foot, Jane Suiter, Lilian Edwards , and 3 more John Foot, Jane Suiter, Lilian Edwards, Ben Worthy, Will Lowe, Steven H. Seggie

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

Reposted by Peter Holmes, Jane Suiter, Nick Hubble

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely nuts

Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event

When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit

Davie says

www.bbc.co.uk

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 3d

Service not secretive! Oops

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 3d

Irish public sector broadcaster justifying moving documentary staff to soap - fair city- and entertainment and entirely outsourcing documentaries ! RTÉ moving towards a publisher broadcaster model with public secretive focused on news and entertainment.. gotta say the unions should be listened to

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 4d

Called phantom publics by @curdknupfer.bsky.social who has done lots of work on it in US context

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not just British I woudl wager that’s the algorithm
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 4d

In Ireland perhaps our online TikTok politicians should take a social media break #speirgorm

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 4d

Very good reason for policymakers to quit X. They’ll end up imagining they’re living in a country far more right wing than it is. Inside their own angry micro public. Combine that with real threats and the impact must be toxic.

Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 5d

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Giovanna Mascheroni, Peter Schöttler , and 2 more Will Jennings, Giovanna Mascheroni, Peter Schöttler, Jane Suiter, Tobias Singelnstein

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

X is designed to radicalise people.

The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.

Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 5d

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

Reposted by Jane Suiter

William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 5d

As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
share.google/RS4MWp65kxNy...

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 5d

Republicans may have opted for him in bid to stop Mandami?

Reposted by Jane Suiter

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6d

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 6d

Perfect thank you
Will read with interest

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 6d

Hi curd
Our university doesn’t have access to this? Might there be an open access version anywhere ? Thanks!

Reposted by Jane Suiter

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 6d

Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration

For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’

www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Jane Suiter

Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 7d

And there's also a very cool piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social where he argues that digital analytics hastened the GOP's radicalization.
Highly recommend! 👍⤵️

academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...

Digital Death Spiral: How Analytics Hastened the Republican Party’s Descent into Trumpism

Abstract. This chapter discusses the role of analytics-based digital listening has played among surrogate organizations in the contemporary Republican Part

academic.oup.com

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 7d

Would be interested in hypothesis that simply spending time and being subject to algorithm and bots etc gives a false sense of the public and drives many policymakers rightward?

Reposted by Jane Suiter

Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 7d

Another paper (not yet officially out but hopefully soon), where we show that various degrees of online connectivity are strongly associated with far-right issue uptake by partisan elites:
mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

mikecowburn.com

Reposted by Jane Suiter

Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 7d

We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 7d

Might be interesting if still possible to emulate networks and likely exposure to narratives .. hoping someone working on it..

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 7d

Have you seen any research on impacts on this? If not seems urgent?

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 7d

Seeing lots of comments and sounds plausible. But is there any research on the toxic impact on policymakers of spending much time on Twitter?

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 8d

Some but crucially not all
Where they did engage results have often been really worthwhile
Hence the biennale etc..

Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 8d

A colleague just reminded me of this while attending Venice Biennial where Irish assemblies are the theme of the super Irish pavilion #speirgorm

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