Professor Vian Bakir
Professor in Journalism and Political Communications
Affiliations
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)
- Participation in Academic conference
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Centre for Information Governance Research Annual Conference, Univ. of Sussex,
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
30 Apr 2020 → 1 May 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Virtual Mind the PR Gap 2020: AI, creativity and fake news in a post Covid-19 world.
Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)
9 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Emotional AI Lab: cross-cultural conversations
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
28 Apr 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Implications of an Ontology of Mediated Emotion, Data Justice Conference 2021
Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)
14 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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GUARDINT EU Project. Intelligence, surveillance, and oversight: tracing connections and contestations
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
26 Jan 2022 → 27 Jan 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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International workshop and seminar on (Mediated) Emotion in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
28 Apr 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Keynote: ‘The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences in AI Policymaking: A Personal Journey of Twists and Turns in the Service of Solving ‘Wicked Problems’. Alan Turing Institute Networking Event - AI, Public Policy and Social Sciences and Humanities
Bakir, V. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
23 Sept 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Media, Persuasion and Human Rights, Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference, Bangor, November 2014
Bakir, V. (Organiser)
10 Nov 2014 → 11 Nov 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Reviewing grant applications
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
1 Jul 2020 → 31 Jul 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
- Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST - Seminar 6
Bakir, V. (Organiser)
20 May 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST - Transparency Today
Bakir, V. (Organiser)
6 Jan 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST Seminar 5 - Tackling Transparency Beyond the Nation-State
Bakir, V. (Organiser)
31 Mar 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST seminar 3
Bakir, V. (Organiser)
8 Jul 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy and Privacy, DATAPSST Seminar, University of Sheffield, March 2015
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
24 Mar 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Ofcom Theory of Change Evaluation Toolkit - training workshop
Bakir, V. (Participant)
30 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Visible Mediations of Transparency: Changing Norms & Practices, DATA-PSST! Seminar, King's College London, September 2015
Bakir, V. (Organiser)
10 Sept 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
- Invited talk
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Facebook’s Data Analytics and Problems for Democracy: Fake News, Dark Ads and a Disinformation Media Ecosystem
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
4 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Fake News & Digital Advertising
Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)
25 Apr 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Impartiality, Accuracy & Truthfulness in a Fake News Era: issues for public accountability of the judiciary
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
8 Mar 2018 → 9 Mar 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
- Oral presentation
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Veillance
Jein, G. (Speaker), McStay, A. (Speaker), Bakir, V. (Speaker), Edwards, C. (Speaker) & Devlin, R. (Speaker)
24 Feb 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
- Consultancy
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Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report.
Bakir, V. (Consultant)
30 Jul 2018Activity: Consultancy
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Interviewed for article evaluating fake news research
Bakir, V. (Consultant)
1 Mar 2018Activity: Consultancy
Opinion Forming in the Digital Age: Fake News, Echo Chambers and Populism - Key Themes, Concerns & Recommendations for European Research and Innovation
Bakir, V. (Consultant) & McStay, A. (Consultant)
1 Feb 2018 → 25 Oct 2018Activity: Consultancy
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Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps
Bakir, V. (Consultant) & McStay, A. (Consultant)
21 Jan 2021Activity: Consultancy
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White Paper - GOVERNING PHILOSOPHIES IN TECHNOLOGY POLICY: PERMISSIONLESS INNOVATION VS. THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
Bakir, V. (Consultant) & Rosner, G. (Consultant)
1 Aug 2021Activity: Consultancy
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Written MPC submissions to UK Fake News Parliamentary Inquiry and wider public discourse
Bakir, V. (Consultant) & McStay, A. (Consultant)
1 Apr 2017 → 29 Nov 2017Activity: Consultancy
- Other
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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
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)
14 Sept 2022 → 14 Oct 2022Activity: Other
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A humanities-led intervention into responsible and ethical AI
Bakir, V. (Participant)
28 May 2021Activity: Other
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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.
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)
29 Jun 2020Activity: Other
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Advisory Board Member for EU Horizon2020 CSI-COP project
Bakir, V. (Contributor)
1 May 2020 → 30 Apr 2023Activity: Other
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Advisory Board member for European Research Council Starting Grants project, TRUE
Bakir, V. (Contributor)
1 Aug 2022 → 1 Aug 2027Activity: Other
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BBC/Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2023 on AI
Bakir, V. (Contributor)
15 Nov 2023 → 20 Jan 2024Activity: Other
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BU-IIA Funded project: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics & Policing in North Wales: Establishing Citizens’ Perspectives
Loftus, B. (Contributor), Bakir, V. (Contributor), McStay, A. (Contributor) & Feilzer, M. (Contributor)
1 Apr 2022 → 31 Mar 2023Activity: Other
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Briefing for Ofcom's Making Sense of Media Working Group
Bakir, V. (Contributor)
29 Mar 2023Activity: Other
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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
McStay, A. (Contributor) & Bakir, V. (Contributor)
28 Feb 2019Activity: Other
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EPSRC Research Centre Panel Reviewer - Protecting Citizens Online
Bakir, V. (Reviewer)
1 Jun 2020 → 22 Jun 2020Activity: Other
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Final Report - Emotional AI - Japan and UK. Final Report on a Conversation between cultures
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)
1 Nov 2019Activity: Other
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Interviewed for The National on disinformation, Twitter, and Scottish independence
Bakir, V. (Contributor)
8 Nov 2022Activity: Other
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Journalism post-Snowden: a simple guide to protecting your information & contacts
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & Lashmar, P. (Contributor)
1 Jun 2019Activity: Other
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Older People & Digital Literacy
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)
10 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)
20 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Provided advice to journalist on political communication and Twitter
Bakir, V. (Contributor)
7 Nov 2022Activity: Other
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Reviewer for Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Jens Christian Skou Fellowship
Bakir, V. (Reviewer)
6 Apr 2020 → 16 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Reviewer for Norwegian Research Council. COVID-19 Emergency Call
Bakir, V. (Reviewer)
6 Apr 2020 → 15 Apr 2020Activity: Other