Jane Suiter
janesuit.bsky.social
Jane Suiter
@janesuit.bsky.social

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

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%

At a meeting in Council of Europe
Hearing from example after example of citizens assemblies across Europe from Ukraine to Germany All concerned about democratic backsliding and threat from far right
Notable how Ireland, once a leader and exemplar. is reverting to the old elites know best model

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I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest

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Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd

Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system. www.authoritarian-stack.info
"We need to stand up against unaccountable NGOs", says Maria Steen, spokesperson for the Irish. NGO, The Iona Institute. At the "Battle Of Ideas", an event hosted by Gript Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Life Institute, another NGO.
Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research | PNAS
The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data coll...
www.pnas.org

Yes agree need to review.
Irish Government should be doing the same - it's crazy that state depts are sharing a site that's openly denying the Holocaust
This can't come soon enough. The longer MPs stay on X, the more they come to believe that the opinions they see on there are representative of the country
www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Irish Government should be doing the same - it's crazy that state depts are sharing a site that's openly denying the Holocaust
This! 👇

It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

Just listened to a report on Ireland’s biggest morning radio show and assumed I was listening to a TikTok spokesperson or lobbyist. Turns out it was a reporter… We’ve got to do a better job training
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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Because we can all see how well Americans are doing with the less regulated tech world of the US 🫣. What is the EU thinking? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...
Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech
www.nytimes.com

Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the plight of the BBC. And the imperative for Labour to Farage proof it. But also full of colourful detail and essential lessons for RTE and others where the same weaknesses could be exploited
This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The real threat to BBC impartiality
The BBC has suffered a week of mistakes, resignations and the threat of a $1bn lawsuit. But the biggest risks of bias are in the boardroom, not the ne...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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AI in education is being treated as an unbelievable, better-than-Covid opportunity for profitmaking by the exploitative, predatory, extractive edtech industry
💸 Do you know how much money Big Tech is spending on lobbying in Brussels? How has this amount been increasing? On what is the money being funnelled to and what can we do about it?

📻 Listen to our new #podcast episode to find out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...

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...

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

Service not secretive! Oops

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

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

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 .

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

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