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)
- Consultancy
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White Paper - GOVERNING PHILOSOPHIES IN TECHNOLOGY POLICY: PERMISSIONLESS INNOVATION VS. THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Gilad Rosner (Consultant)
1 Aug 2021Activity: Consultancy
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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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'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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A humanities-led intervention into responsible and ethical AI
Vian Bakir (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.
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
29 Jun 2020Activity: Other
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Advisory Board Member for EU Horizon2020 CSI-COP project
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
1 May 2020 → 30 Apr 2023Activity: Other
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Advisory Board member for European Research Council Starting Grants project, TRUE
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
1 Aug 2022 → 1 Aug 2027Activity: 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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Briefing for Ofcom's Making Sense of Media Working Group
Vian Bakir (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
Andrew McStay (Contributor) & Vian Bakir (Contributor)
28 Feb 2019Activity: Other
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EPSRC Research Centre Panel Reviewer - Protecting Citizens Online
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
1 Nov 2019Activity: Other
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Interviewed for The National on disinformation, Twitter, and Scottish independence
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
8 Nov 2022Activity: Other
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Journalism post-Snowden: a simple guide to protecting your information & contacts
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Paul Lashmar (Contributor)
1 Jun 2019Activity: Other
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Older People & Digital Literacy
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
10 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Online Media Literacy Strategy Stakeholder meeting
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
26 Jan 2023Activity: Other
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Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
20 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Provided advice to journalist on political communication and Twitter
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
7 Nov 2022Activity: Other
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Reviewer for Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Jens Christian Skou Fellowship
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
6 Apr 2020 → 16 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Reviewer for Norwegian Research Council. COVID-19 Emergency Call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
6 Apr 2020 → 15 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Reviewer: Univ. of Aarhus EU Union Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme -Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
29 Mar 2020 → 20 Apr 2020Activity: Other
SSRC/ESRC International workshops on Trust in Democratic Institutions
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
24 Mar 2022 → 31 Mar 2022Activity: Other