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)
- Other
SSRC/ESRC International workshops on Trust in Democratic Institutions
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
24 Mar 2022 → 31 Mar 2022Activity: Other
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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UKRI -AHRC COVID-19 expert peer group reviewer
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
25 Jun 2020 → …Activity: Other
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WORKING GROUP MEMBER: OFCOM Making Sense of Media Research Working Group
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Sept 2022 → 1 Sept 2023Activity: Other
- Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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oral evidence on user targeting to House of Commons Fake News Inquiry
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
23 Jan 2018Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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10th News Assembly: Panel on Journalism post-Snowden
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
26 Oct 2015 → 27 Oct 2015Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
Article in Hamodia on Fake News
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
23 Nov 2021Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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COVID-19: How can we communicate risk in a post-truth world?
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
26 Oct 2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Emotional AI & disinformation.
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
16 Jul 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Emotional AI and Civil Rights: The Salutary Case of Facebook
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
4 Aug 2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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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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FAKE NEWS: INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR VIAN BAKIR
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
6 May 2022Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
Interview with Prof Vian Bakir - Solutions to Global Misinformation
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
1 Oct 2021Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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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
SURVEILLING THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPERVISORS: DEMOCRATIC PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS.
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
21 Nov 2018 → 23 Nov 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Tackling Grand Challenges in Society - AI & Democracy
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
17 Dec 2019 → 18 Dec 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Talk on CitizenFour
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
10 Jan 2015Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Weaponisation of Politics & Civic Discourse
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
8 Jul 2019 → 12 Jul 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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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
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reviewer AHRC COVID-19 call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
1 Aug 2020 → 31 Aug 2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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'Strategic political communication': the Bush administration torture-intelligence policy and the US Senate Intelligence Committee report
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
17 Dec 2014Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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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From torture to de-radicalisation: towards public accountability of secret policies designed to prevent terrorism
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
4 Oct 2016Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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I am not worried about Russia. I'm concerned about the misuse of people's feelings. Vecer
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
22 Dec 2018Activity: 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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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 2016Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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SVT national radio
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
25 Nov 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Telltale signs of deceitful public relations campaign
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
28 Nov 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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What if we knew when people were lying?
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
25 Mar 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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‘Fake news’ to get worse says Bangor University media expert. Daily Post, 5 Sep 2018
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
5 Sept 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
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external consultant for CAGE
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
1 Aug 2015 → 1 Dec 2016Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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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
- Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Information Rights research network
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Jun 2015 → 1 Jan 2020Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Making Sense of Media Working Group
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
24 May 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Ofcom Making Sense of Media Working Group
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Nov 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
- Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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AHRC reviewer -
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
11 Nov 2019Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants application - referee
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
12 Oct 2016Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Consultant for Univ.of Liverpool. Revalidation of MA Political Communication degree.
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Sept 2015Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC - Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Social Science Program with US Department of Defense
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
1 Oct 2023 → 28 Feb 2024Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC National Capability in Behavioural Research Workshop
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
28 Apr 2022Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC Peer Review College member
Vian Bakir (Member)
28 Sept 2022 → 28 Sept 2028Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
1 May 2017Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
30 Aug 2018Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
9 Aug 2018Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer for for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
9 Aug 2018Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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EU MCFA Fellowships reviewer
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
14 Oct 2023 → 1 Dec 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Editorial Board Member
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Jan 2021 → 1 Jan 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Expert reviewer for European Research Agency for evaluations of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2022
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
7 Oct 2022 → 20 Jan 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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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 2022 → 20 Jul 2022Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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External Examiner PhD viva; Heather Brooke
Vian Bakir (Examiner)
8 Jun 2016Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee