Tag: MEMO 98

MONITORING SOCIAL MEDIA DURING ELECTIONS

26.10.2019 Too often we heard about problems in social media discourse during elections when it was too late. Democracy Reporting International, in cooperation with MEMO 98, has been implementing a Civitates-funded project which seeks to significantly step up a...

COMPACT SYMPOSIUM: DISINFO IN EU ELECTIONS & THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

24.10.2019 The symposium brought together policymakers, academics, NGOs and other stakeholders to discuss how to make social media and our democratic discourses more resilient to extremism and disinformation, especially in light of elections. The aim of the COMPACT

MONITORING UKRAINIAN MEDIA DURING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2019

14.10.2019 In the framework of the Council of Europe project “Supporting the transparency, inclusiveness and integrity of electoral practice in Ukraine” and in cooperation with the Council of Europe project “Strengthening Freedom of Media, Access to Informatio

SOCIAL MEDIA, DISINFORMATION AND ELECTORAL INTEGRITY

28.09.2019 The appearance of various types of disinformation and their threat to the integrity of elections have become gradually an issue of global concern. There is a need to have a better definition of problems and terms, and a deeper understanding of the challenge...

SOCIAL MEDIA IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN EUROPE: HOW TO MONITOR THEM

28.09.2019 MEMO 98, in cooperation with Democracy Reporting International (DRI), organized a workshop “Social media in upcoming elections in Europe: How to monitor them?” which was held on 19 – 20 September 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The...

SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING AND ELECTION OBSERVATION - NIGERIA 2019

04.08.2019 Niger Delta Watch 2019 was a citizen-led election observation project reporting on the 2019 Nigerian presidential and governorship elections. The project focused on the states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, and Akwa Ibom. Niger Delta Watch 2019 was a joint...

PARTIES FOCUSED MORE ON DOMESTIC POLITICS THAN EU TOPICS

10.06.2019 Brussels, 28 May 2019 - Between 1 April and 15 May 2019, MEMO 98, a Slovak non-profit specialist media-monitoring organization, with the assistance of international experts, monitored 48 public Facebook accounts of parties running in the European Parliament...

HĽADÁME ANALYTIKA NA SPRACOVANIE A ANALÝZU VÝSTUPOV MEDIÁLNEHO MONITORINGU

08.05.2019 Viac ako dvadsať rokov sa venujeme monitoringu médií na Slovensku a od roku 1999 najmä v zahraničí. Už istý čas intenzívne skúmame možnosti monitoringu sociálnych sietí, najmä v s...

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN TELEVISION - 2ND ROUND

07.05.2019 MEMO 98 has a long history of exploring the coverage of political subjects and their representatives in the media, both in Slovakia as well as abroad. This report analyses the presentation of the candidates running for president of the Slovak Republic in...

POLITICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

07.04.2019 MEMO 98 expert Rasto Kuzel was one of the speakers at the Danube University Krems which, along with the Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, hosted the Eastern Partnership eDemocracy Conference on &lsquo...