Students are given access to resources to assist with their media project production. This includes links below to software for editing and sources for copyright-free assets. It’s essential to incorporate reliable references in your work. To ensure the accuracy of any facts related to the environment or groups mentioned in your project, we’ve provided links to trustworthy sources of information. Feel free to use these resources to verify the details you’re presenting in your media pieces.
Assets
Reliable Information: sources & guides
UNHCR on some of its websites gives a guide to identifying reliable sources of information. Interestingly the Irish site doesn’t have this, but many others do. Here’s the one for Hungary:
Very basic information is available on Spunout.
A US library website has very good basic information and some videos that might be useful:
A well-known media bias chart, mainly centered on US media,
Another US website is
The University of Chicago has a few methods for evaluating sources – the SIFT method, the CRAPP test and the SMART check:
The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) is a Horizon-2020 funded research project dedicated to understanding disinformation. FuJo, based in the School of Communications is a member of this consortium:
The Irish website for outputs from this project is:
This is a really good Council of Europe report on disinformation, with some suggestions for solutions:
A Nature journal article (2023) on ability of detecting and willingness to share fake news: