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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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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Emotional AI Lab: cross-cultural conversations
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (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
Vian Bakir (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.
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
10 Nov 2014 → 11 Nov 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Reviewing grant applications
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
20 May 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST - Transparency Today
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
31 Mar 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST seminar 3
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
4 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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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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Impartiality, Accuracy & Truthfulness in a Fake News Era: issues for public accountability of the judiciary
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
8 Mar 2018 → 9 Mar 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
- Oral presentation
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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
- Consultancy
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Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report.
Vian Bakir (Consultant)
30 Jul 2018Activity: Consultancy
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Interviewed for article evaluating fake news research
Vian Bakir (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
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (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
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)
21 Jan 2021Activity: Consultancy
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