Professor Vian Bakir

Professor in Journalism and Political Communications

Contact info

Position: Professor of Journalism & Political Communication

Email: v.bakir@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382751

Location: Main Arts

Personal website: Academia.edu   ResearchGate

Project Websites: DATA-PSST!   Intelligence Elites  Emotional AI

 

Current Administrative Responsibilities:

Co-Director of Network for Study of Media and Persuasive Communication.  

School of History, Law & Social Science Research Committee (grant leadership)

 

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  1. Participation in Academic conference
  2. 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 202010 Jul 2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic conference

  3. Emotional AI Lab: cross-cultural conversations

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    28 Apr 2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic conference

  4. Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Implications of an Ontology of Mediated Emotion, Data Justice Conference 2021

    Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    14 May 2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic conference

  5. GUARDINT EU Project. Intelligence, surveillance, and oversight: tracing connections and contestations

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    26 Jan 202227 Jan 2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic conference

  6. International workshop and seminar on (Mediated) Emotion in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    28 Apr 2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic conference

  7. Media, Persuasion and Human Rights, Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference, Bangor, November 2014

    Vian Bakir (Organiser)

    10 Nov 201411 Nov 2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic conference

  8. Reviewing grant applications

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    1 Jul 202031 Jul 2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic conference

  9. Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
  10. DATA-PSST - Seminar 6

    Vian Bakir (Organiser)

    20 May 2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

  11. DATA-PSST - Transparency Today

    Vian Bakir (Organiser)

    6 Jan 2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

  12. DATA-PSST Seminar 5 - Tackling Transparency Beyond the Nation-State

    Vian Bakir (Organiser)

    31 Mar 2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

  13. DATA-PSST seminar 3

    Vian Bakir (Organiser)

    8 Jul 2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

  14. Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy and Privacy, DATAPSST Seminar, University of Sheffield, March 2015

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    24 Mar 2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

  15. Ofcom Theory of Change Evaluation Toolkit - training workshop

    Vian Bakir (Participant)

    30 Mar 2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

  16. Visible Mediations of Transparency: Changing Norms & Practices, DATA-PSST! Seminar, King's College London, September 2015

    Vian Bakir (Organiser)

    10 Sept 2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

  17. Invited talk
  18. DATA-PSST findings

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    1 May 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talk

  19. Fake News & Digital Advertising

    Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    25 Apr 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talk

  20. Impartiality, Accuracy & Truthfulness in a Fake News Era: issues for public accountability of the judiciary

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    8 Mar 20189 Mar 2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talk

  21. Oral presentation
  22. Veillance

    Gillian Jein (Speaker), Andrew McStay (Speaker), Vian Bakir (Speaker), Carwyn Edwards (Speaker) & Ronan Devlin (Speaker)

    24 Feb 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationOral presentation

  23. Consultancy
  24. Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report.

    Vian Bakir (Consultant)

    30 Jul 2018

    Activity: Consultancy

  25. Interviewed for article evaluating fake news research

    Vian Bakir (Consultant)

    1 Mar 2018

    Activity: Consultancy

  26. Talk with TiiQu

    Vian Bakir (Advisor)

    19 Oct 2022

    Activity: Consultancy

  27. Written MPC submissions to UK Fake News Parliamentary Inquiry and wider public discourse

    Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)

    1 Apr 201729 Nov 2017

    Activity: Consultancy

  28. Other
  29. Advisory Board Member for EU Horizon2020 CSI-COP project

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    1 May 202030 Apr 2023

    Activity: Other

  30. EPSRC Research Centre Panel Reviewer - Protecting Citizens Online

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    1 Jun 202022 Jun 2020

    Activity: Other

  31. ESRC reviewer - New Investigator Programme

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    16 Jun 2020

    Activity: Other

  32. Journalism post-Snowden: a simple guide to protecting your information & contacts

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Paul Lashmar (Contributor)

    1 Jun 2019

    Activity: Other

  33. Older People & Digital Literacy

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    10 Apr 2020

    Activity: Other

  34. Online Media Literacy Strategy Stakeholder meeting

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    26 Jan 2023

    Activity: Other

  35. Oxford University Press (Publisher)

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    1 Nov 2018

    Activity: Other

  36. Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    20 Apr 2020

    Activity: Other

  37. Reviewer for Norwegian Research Council. COVID-19 Emergency Call

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    6 Apr 202015 Apr 2020

    Activity: Other

  38. SSRC/ESRC International workshops on Trust in Democratic Institutions

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    24 Mar 202231 Mar 2022

    Activity: Other

  39. Televised Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2023

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    15 Nov 202320 Jan 2024

    Activity: Other

  40. UKRI -AHRC COVID-19 expert peer group reviewer

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    25 Jun 2020 → …

    Activity: Other

  41. Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
  42. oral evidence on user targeting to House of Commons Fake News Inquiry

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    23 Jan 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel

  43. Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
  44. 10th News Assembly: Panel on Journalism post-Snowden

    Vian Bakir (Interviewee)

    26 Oct 201527 Oct 2015

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  45. Article in Hamodia on Fake News

    Vian Bakir (Interviewee)

    23 Nov 2021

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  46. COVID-19: How can we communicate risk in a post-truth world?

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    26 Oct 2020

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  47. Emotional AI & disinformation.

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    16 Jul 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  48. Emotional AI and Civil Rights: The Salutary Case of Facebook

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    4 Aug 2020

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  49. Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation

    Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    23 Apr 202128 Apr 2021

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  50. FAKE NEWS: INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR VIAN BAKIR

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    6 May 2022

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  51. Interview with Prof Vian Bakir - Solutions to Global Misinformation

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    1 Oct 2021

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  52. Regulating Digital Campaigning: What is to be Done?

    Vian Bakir (Participant) & Andrew McStay (Participant)

    29 Nov 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  53. SURVEILLING THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPERVISORS: DEMOCRATIC PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS.

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    21 Nov 201823 Nov 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  54. Tackling Grand Challenges in Society - AI & Democracy

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    17 Dec 201918 Dec 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  55. Talk on CitizenFour

    Vian Bakir (Interviewee)

    10 Jan 2015

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  56. Weaponisation of Politics & Civic Discourse

    Vian Bakir (Speaker)

    8 Jul 201912 Jul 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  57. Workshop on emotional AI

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Organiser)

    9 Sept 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  58. reviewer AHRC COVID-19 call

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    1 Aug 202031 Aug 2020

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

  59. Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
  60. 'Strategic political communication': the Bush administration torture-intelligence policy and the US Senate Intelligence Committee report

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    17 Dec 2014

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  61. CULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    2 Aug 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  62. From torture to de-radicalisation: towards public accountability of secret policies designed to prevent terrorism

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    4 Oct 2016

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  63. I am not worried about Russia. I'm concerned about the misuse of people's feelings. Vecer

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    22 Dec 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  64. 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 20191 Sept 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  65. Quoted in al-Jazeera article: Mendhai, Shafik. 2016 "Snooping, data leaks and the threat to online privacy". AL-Jazeera English, December 1.

    Vian Bakir (Interviewee)

    1 Dec 2016

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  66. SVT national radio

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    25 Nov 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  67. Telltale signs of deceitful public relations campaign

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    28 Nov 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  68. What if we knew when people were lying?

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    25 Mar 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  69. ‘Fake news’ to get worse says Bangor University media expert. Daily Post, 5 Sep 2018

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    5 Sept 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

  70. Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
  71. external consultant for CAGE

    Vian Bakir (Interviewee)

    1 Aug 20151 Dec 2016

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement

  72. Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
  73. Veillance

    Gillian Jein (Host), Ronan Devlin (Organiser), Andrew McStay (Member), Vian Bakir (Member), Ant Dickinson (Contributor), Michael Fluekiger (Contributor) & Carwyn Edwards (Contributor)

    24 Feb 201712 Mar 2017

    Activity: OtherTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

  74. Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
  75. Information Rights research network

    Vian Bakir (Member)

    1 Jun 20151 Jan 2020

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

  76. Making Sense of Media Working Group

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    24 May 2023

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

  77. Ofcom Making Sense of Media Working Group

    Vian Bakir (Member)

    1 Nov 2023

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

  78. Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
  79. AHRC reviewer -

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    11 Nov 2019

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  80. BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants application - referee

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    12 Oct 2016

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  81. Consultant for Univ.of Liverpool. Revalidation of MA Political Communication degree.

    Vian Bakir (Member)

    1 Sept 2015

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  82. ESRC - Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Social Science Program with US Department of Defense

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    1 Oct 202328 Feb 2024

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  83. ESRC National Capability in Behavioural Research Workshop

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    28 Apr 2022

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  84. ESRC Peer Review College member

    Vian Bakir (Member)

    28 Sept 202228 Sept 2028

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  85. ESRC reviewer

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    1 May 2017

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  86. ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    30 Aug 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  87. ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    9 Aug 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  88. ESRC reviewer for for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    9 Aug 2018

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  89. EU MCFA Fellowships reviewer

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    14 Oct 20231 Dec 2023

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  90. Editorial Board Member

    Vian Bakir (Member)

    1 Jan 20211 Jan 2023

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  91. Expert reviewer for European Research Agency for evaluations of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2022

    Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    7 Oct 202220 Jan 2023

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  92. Expert reviewer, Rapporteur and Final Panel member for Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON). Reshaping democracies (HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01)

    Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    14 May 202220 Jul 2022

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

  93. External Examiner PhD viva; Heather Brooke

    Vian Bakir (Examiner)

    8 Jun 2016

    Activity: OtherTypes of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee