Professor Andrew McStay
Professor in Technology & Society
Affiliations
Contact info
Name: Andrew McStay
Position: Professor of Technology & Society
Email: mcstay@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1248 382740
- 2023
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Advising Government Department on Metaverse technology
Andrew McStay (Consultant)
2023 → …Activity: Consultancy
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Digital Discussion on AI for Plaid Cymru and Welsh Government
Andrew McStay (Interviewee)
2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
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Panel membership for AHRC (BRAID Scoping to Embed Responsible AI)
Andrew McStay (Consultant)
2023Activity: Consultancy
- 2022
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'Addressing false information online via provision of authoritative information: Why dialling down emotion is part of the answer', Submission to UK Parliament Online Harms and Disinformation Sub-Committee Inquiry into Misinformation and Trusted Voices, September 2022
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
14 Sept 2022 → 14 Oct 2022Activity: Other
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BU-IIA Funded project: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics & Policing in North Wales: Establishing Citizens’ Perspectives
Bethan Loftus (Contributor), Vian Bakir (Contributor), Andrew McStay (Contributor) & Martina Feilzer (Contributor)
1 Apr 2022 → 31 Mar 2023Activity: Other
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Advising Welsh Government on AI Ethics
Andrew McStay (Contributor)
2022 → …Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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Advisory Board of PATH-AI
Andrew McStay (Contributor)
2022 → …Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Information Commissioners Office (External organisation)
Andrew McStay (Chair)
2022 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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Keynote talk on data ethics for Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS): AI Ethics and Emotion Recognition
Andrew McStay (Speaker)
2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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- 2021
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Aspen Institute/Facebook: Chatham House invite to advise on ‘Empathic Research’
Andrew McStay (Contributor)
Nov 2021Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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Roundtables on DCMS Data Reform Consultation
Andrew McStay (Contributor)
Nov 2021Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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Digital Futures Commission
Andrew McStay (Contributor)
Oct 2021Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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Ada Lovelace/RCA workshop
Andrew McStay (Speaker)
Jun 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Implications of an Ontology of Mediated Emotion, Data Justice Conference 2021
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
14 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
23 Apr 2021 → 28 Apr 2021Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)
21 Jan 2021Activity: Consultancy
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North Wales Police AI Governance Group
Andrew McStay (Contributor)
2021 → 2022Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
- 2020
Submission to Inquiry on Impact of Social Media on Elections and Electoral Administration - Victoria Parliament, Australia - plus resulting influence
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
24 Aug 2020 → 20 Sept 2021Activity: Other
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Virtual Mind the PR Gap 2020: AI, creativity and fake news in a post Covid-19 world.
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
9 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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AGAINST OPACITY, OUTRAGE & DECEPTION: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns. Evidence submitted to House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
29 Jun 2020Activity: Other
Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
20 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Older People & Digital Literacy
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
10 Apr 2020Activity: Other
- 2019
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Final Report - Emotional AI - Japan and UK. Final Report on a Conversation between cultures
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
1 Nov 2019Activity: Other
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Workshop on emotional AI
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Organiser)
9 Sept 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
CULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
2 Aug 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Parliamentary submission: Datafied Bearbaiting and Emotional AI: Anticipating the Quantified Jeremy Kyle Show. Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry into Reality TV
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
1 Jun 2019 → 1 Sept 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Citation in EU Commissioned study: Disinformation and propaganda – impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its Member States
Andrew McStay (Contributor) & Vian Bakir (Contributor)
28 Feb 2019Activity: Other
- 2018
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Regulating Digital Campaigning: What is to be Done?
Vian Bakir (Participant) & Andrew McStay (Participant)
29 Nov 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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United International College Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
Andrew McStay (Reviewer) & Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
16 Nov 2018Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
Opinion Forming in the Digital Age: Fake News, Echo Chambers and Populism - Key Themes, Concerns & Recommendations for European Research and Innovation
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)
1 Feb 2018 → 25 Oct 2018Activity: Consultancy
- 2017
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Fake News & Digital Advertising
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
25 Apr 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Written MPC submissions to UK Fake News Parliamentary Inquiry and wider public discourse
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)
1 Apr 2017 → 29 Nov 2017Activity: Consultancy
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Veillance
Gillian Jein (Speaker), Andrew McStay (Speaker), Vian Bakir (Speaker), Carwyn Edwards (Speaker) & Ronan Devlin (Speaker)
24 Feb 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Veillance
Gillian Jein (Host), Ronan Devlin (Organiser), Andrew McStay (Member), Vian Bakir (Member), Ant Dickinson (Contributor), Michael Fluekiger (Contributor) & Carwyn Edwards (Contributor)
24 Feb 2017 → 12 Mar 2017Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
- 2016
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Membership of AHRC peer review college
Andrew McStay (Member)
18 Nov 2016Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee