Your Balanced Media Diet

Is awareness of your media consumption the first step in combating it? 

Ross Dowd & Brendan Spillane

Does the responsibility for moderating the balance of our media intake fall on the individual, or on the social media companies that promote the news?

Your Balanced Media Diet explores media consumption habits by showing you how your preferences fit within the overall news media landscape — and interrogating if you should consider adding variety to your media diet or include a news source with a different profile.

Commissioned by Science Gallery Dublin and created with ADAPT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for AI Driven Digital Content Technology.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ross Dowd is an award-winning industrial designer and artist based in Dublin. He works at the intersection of art and science to enhance user experiences while developing novel means of improving human-machine interaction. His work has been exhibited internationally and he now lectures in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin Ireland.

Brendan Spillane is a Post-doctoral Researcher in the ADAPT Centre in the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. His work focuses on human perception of information with specific focuses on bias, credibility, misinformation, and disinformation. He is currently working on the Provenance H2020 EU project combating disinformation.

Ross and Brendan’s partnership naturally adopted an exploratory approach, delving into a variety of concepts relating to bias and the media before settling on Your Balanced Media Diet, a playful and interactive installation designed to challenge viewers to reconsider and improve their media consumption habits.