UCD Centre for Digital Policy

ICYMI, our newest report on 'Gore and Violent Extremism' is now available #openaccess on our website. Go to voxpol.eu/publications/.

Missed the launch webinar? Drop a line to info@voxpol.eu from your institutional email address and we'll share the link.

#PleaseRS

Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, according to a global activist survey The stats “were so much higher than we expected them to be.”

What are your thoughts on this? Is it surprising given Meta's new crowdsourced content moderation policies and abandonment of factchecking?

"A survey of environmental activists found that nearly all of them have experienced harassment on social media, and a majority have feared for their safety."

A new book titled 'Enhancing LLM Performance: Efficacy, Fine-Tuning, and Inference Techniques' has been released today by ADAPT researchers at DCU.
Learn more and find out where you can get a copy here: adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

Research Funding in the Age of AI Innovation at the Speed of Trust. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a research topic restricted to computer science labs and research papers.

A powerful piece from Ciarán Seoighe, @researchireland.ie, that reinforces why responsible governance and investment are essential to shaping an ethical AI future: www.linkedin.com/pulse/resear...

📢 Call for Short Talks – DAHRSE Midlands 2025
A day of digital humanities + research software!
🎯 Theme: Exploring the Digital Landscape
🗣️ Submit a short or lightning talk by 31 Aug
💸 Travel bursaries available!
🔗 dahrse-midlands.github.io/events/dahrs...
#DAHRSE #RSEng #DigitalHumanities #Midlands

The Centre is delighted to welcome our new Advisory Board member, Ian Chambers, to the cohort! 🙌

Ian joins us as Deputy Commissioner for @dpcireland.bsky.social and has been a long-time guest lecturer in our MSc course. We're thrilled to have him joning our expert board 🎉

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Looking for help managing your #ResearchData?

Join our Research Data Librarian on Fri 25th July for a live demo using #DMPonline to create a Data Management Plan.

This session is suitable for researchers needing help navigating DMPonline.

Book your place at Library Training: bit.ly/dmpo2507

🎙️👂We're listening @aphrak.bsky.social!

Upcoming Event: Regulating innovation in the digital environment : towards a Digital Knowledge Agenda - UCD Centre for Digital Policy 03.07.2025. We are delighted to be supporting Centre member Bernd Justin Jütte's upcomong event on Regulating the Digital Environment. Dr Jütte will soon

Don't miss the exciting upcoming webinar hosted by Dr @bjjuette.bsky.social "Regulating Innovation in the Digital Environment: Towards a Digital Knowledge Agenda."

📅 10 July
🕓 9.30-11.30
📍 Strasbourg and Online

For further information and to join the webinar, following the link below

Important questions here!
We wonder: what are you thoughts on children's use of digital platforms and the protections that are in place?

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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How should we treat the environmental footprint of #AI supply chains from a policymaking perspective? FORSEE researchers contributed to the public consultation on Apply AI Strategy of the #EU with their take here: forseeproject.eu/embedding-the-environment-into-ai-policy/

Final Book Fair before summer!

📅 Sun 22 June, 10am–4pm

📍 Mount Merrion Parish Centre (A94 R2Y4)

🎟️ €2 entry | Free parking | Accessible

Rare + signed books, Irish history, ephemera & more.

Hosted by Eddie & Kay.

☕ Drop in for a browse & chat!

👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 Amazing news: UCD researchers Professor Kylie Jarrett and Associate Professor Barry Wardell have just been awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grants worth a combined €5 million to fund… | Univers... 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 Amazing news: UCD researchers Professor Kylie Jarrett and Associate Professor Barry Wardell have just been awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grants worth a combined €5 million to fund groundbrea...

We're very proud to celebrate Centre member @kylzjarrett.bsky.social , and colleague Barry Wardell, on the reception of these incredible ERC awards! 👏🔥

Read more at the LinkedIn post below 👇

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdischool.bsky.social

The Limits of Ethical AI Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI

An investigation into ethical AI and fair algorithms begs the question, "what does it actually mean for an algorithm to be deployed fairly?"

What are your thoughts on this? Comment below 👇
#DigitalPolicyIE #UCDDigitalPolicy

🔍 Meet the 20 new grantees selected through our 2024 global open call!

After reviewing over 300 applications, Safe Online has chosen 20 organizations from around the world to receive funding for their approaches to fighting online child sexual exploitation and abuse

🌟 Learn more: lnkd.in/gw2SjxCy

Call for papers | The Digital Authoritarianism Research Lab (DARL) C a l l   f o r  p a p e r s Confronting Technofeudalism and Digital Authoritarianism: Challenges and Solutions for the European Regulation Digital Authoritarianism Research Lab (DARL) invites scho...

The Digital Authoritarianism Research Lab (DARL) has put out a CfP: Confronting Technofeudalism and Digital Authoritarianism: Challenges and Solutions for the European Regulation, taking place 17 Oct 2025 in Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest

Due: June 17, 2025

@profafinlayson.bsky.social @gilliankennedy.bsky.social @simoned.bsky.social @joncollins-black.bsky.social @kat-hig.bsky.social @craighaslop.bsky.social @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social

@eugeniasiapera.bsky.social @debbieging.bsky.social @paraickerrigan.bsky.social @cat-baker.bsky.social @gavant.bsky.social @edmoireland.bsky.social @eumovementireland.bsky.social @edelmcginley.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social @cnam-ie.bsky.social @sarahadunne.bsky.social

Reaction(ary) Media: International Symposium Convened by Centre Member Anthony Kelly - UCD Centre for Digital Policy 05.06.2025. Reaction(ary) Media: International Symposium Convened by Centre Member Anthony Kelly On May 29th, the UCD Centre for Digital Policy supported

We were delighted to have supported @anthonypkelly.bsky.social 's recent symposium "Reaction(ary) Media)" on situating influencers, audiences, and antagonisms.

Read more on the event and its findings at the blog link below 👇
digitalpolicy.ie/reactionary-...

Reaction(ary) Media: International Symposium Convened by Centre Member Anthony Kelly - UCD Centre for Digital Policy 05.06.2025. Reaction(ary) Media: International Symposium Convened by Centre Member Anthony Kelly On May 29th, the UCD Centre for Digital Policy supported

The Centre was thrilled to support @anthonypkelly.bsky.social's recently hosted symposium "Reaction(ary) Media" which welcomed a day of insightful and timely conversation on situating influencers, audiences and antagonisms.

Read more about the event and findings at our new blog post linked below!

A recent IE-NARR workshop from Pat Brodie, Treasa de Loughry & Tomas Buitendijk was hosted in Tallagh, Co. Dublin, and with their follow-up blog, highlighted local community responses to the energy demands of large-scale digitalisation in the area.

Read more at link below 👇

We were delighted to support this timely and insightful symposium, brilliantly organised by @anthonypkelly.bsky.social and welcoming expterise from academics, stakeholders, and CSOs.

Check out Anthony's thread to read more on the disucssions and findings from the day!

We are so delighted to be supporting today's symposium on Reaction(ary) Media, organised by @anthonypkelly.bsky.social and with @eugeniasiapera.bsky.social welcoming stakeholders, academics & civil society orgs in a policy roundtable on Audience Engagement with Reactionary Media as a Policy Conern

Global developers' insights into Child Rights by Design

📢New #DigitalFutures4Children report by Kruakae Pothong and Sonia Livingstone.

🔎What will it take for digital businesses to respect #ChildRights? For #UNDP we asked them…

eprints.lse.ac.uk/128187/1/Pot...

@MediaLSE @5RightsFound

⏰ 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭! The next webinar is on Wednesday – and you won’t want to miss it.

Kamila Koronska and Shiva Shah will break down how disinfo, hate speech and political rage spilled from X and Facebook into the streets during the 2024 UK riots 🔥

🎟️ Sign up to join live: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Series 3, Episode 2: Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Ethical AI Governance, with Professor Linda Hogan (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr Marta Lasek-Markey (ADAPT) Brain for Business · Episode

One of our researchers, Dr. Marta Lasek-Markey, recently featured on an episode of the Brains for Business podcast. The episode discusses taking a human rights-based approach to AI governance. You can listen to the whole episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jvS...

Art 40 applications will be, at minimum, a detailed process. We anticipate a steep learning curve for applicants, platforms and regulators alike. Thanks for stopping by Naoise, Kirsty and Cnam!
#digitalpolicyIE #Art40DSA

Yesterday, The Centre collaborated with Coimisiún na Meán to deliver a packed workshop on the vetted researcher application process under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act. Naoise McNally and @kirstypark.bsky.social briefed the room on the status of the forthcoming application process.

@ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdslcl.bsky.social @ucdcs.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social @ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucdtl.bsky.social