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)

 

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    Assessing interdisciplinary academic and mult-istakeholder positions on transparency in the post-Snowden leak era

    Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Dec 2015, In: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, p. 25-38

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Assessing interdisciplinary academic and multi-stakeholder positions on transparency in the post-Snowden leak era

    Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2015, In: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, p. 25-38

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. E-pub ahead of print

    Blurring the moral limits of data markets: biometrics, emotion and data dividends

    Bakir, V., Laffer, A. & McStay, A., 12 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: AI & Society.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Book Review: Jaques Ranciere, The Emancipated Spectator and Rod Stoneman, Chavez.

    Bakir, V., 14 Nov 2013, In: Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. 16, 4, p. 543-551

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Book Review: Tarik Sabry, Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On the Media, the Modern and the Everyday

    Bakir, V., 1 Apr 2012, In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 15, 4, p. 547-548

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Fake News and the Economy of Emotions: Problems, Causes, Solutions

    Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2018, In: Digital Journalism. 6, 2, p. 154-175

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Human-first, please: Assessing citizen views and industrial ambition for emotional AI in recommender systems

    Bakir, V., Laffer, A. & McStay, A., 3 Jul 2023, In: Surveillance and Society. 21, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Introduction to Special Theme Veillance and transparency: A critical examination of mutual watching in the post-Snowden, Big Data era

    Bakir, V., Feilzer, M. & McStay, A., 15 Mar 2017, In: Big Data and Society. 4, 1, p. 1-5

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Media and risk: old and new research directions.

    Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2010, In: Journal of Risk Research. 13, 1, p. 5-18

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    News, Agenda Building, and Intelligence Agencies: A Systematic Review of the Field from the Discipline of Journalism, Media, and Communications

    Bakir, V., 30 Jan 2015, In: International Journal of Press/politics. 20, 2, p. 131-144

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    On manipulation by emotional AI: UK adults’ views and governance implications

    Bakir, V., Laffer, A., McStay, A., Miranda, D. & Urquhart, L., 7 Jun 2024, In: Frontiers in Sociology. 9, 1339834.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Organized Persuasive Communication: A new conceptual framework for research on public relations, propaganda and promotional culture: A New Conceptual Framework for Public Relations and Propaganda Research

    Bakir, V., Herring, E., Miller, D. & Robinson, P., 1 May 2019, In: Critical Sociology. 45, 3, p. 311-328

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Political-intelligence elites, Strategic Political Communication and the press: the need for, and utility of, a benchmark of public accountability demands

    Bakir, V., 16 Sept 2016, In: Intelligence and National Security. p. 1-22 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Psychological Operations in Digital Political Campaigns: Assessing Cambridge Analytica's Psychographic Profiling and Targeting

    Bakir, V., 3 Sept 2020, In: Frontiers in Communication. 2020, 67.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Tele-technologies, control, and sousveillance: Saddam Hussein - de-deification and the beast.

    Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2009, In: Popular Communication. 7, 1, p. 7-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Torture and intelligence in the War on Terror: The struggle over strategic political communication.

    Bakir, V., 1 Dec 2011, In: Global Media and Communication. 7, 3, p. 239-243

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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    Veillant Panoptic Assemblage: Mutual Watching and Resistance to Mass Surveillance after Snowden

    Bakir, V., 8 Oct 2015, In: Media and Communication. 3, 3, p. 12-25

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  20. Published

    Abu Ghraib

    Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

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    Automating empathy: overview, technologies, criticism

    McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 14 Nov 2023, Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar, p. 656-669

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

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    Disinformation

    Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War : Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 504-506

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

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    Embedded Reporters

    Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 547-549

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  24. Published

    Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation

    McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 3 Sept 2020, Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means. Boler, M. & Davis, E. (eds.). Routledge, p. 263-279

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  25. Published

    Freedom or Security? Mass Surveillance of Citizens

    Bakir, V., 3 Sept 2021, Handbook of Global Media Ethics. Ward, S. J. A. (ed.). Switzerland: Springer, p. 939-959 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  26. Published

    Lying and politics

    Robinson, P., Miller, D., Herring, E. & Bakir, V., 22 Nov 2018, The Oxford Handbook of Lying. Meibauer, J. (ed.). Oxford University Press, (Oxford Handbooks).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  27. Published

    News, Media and the Intelligence Community

    Bakir, V., 8 Nov 2016, Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Robinson, P., Seib, P. & Frolich, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 243-254

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  28. Published

    Propaganda and Persuasion in Contemporary Conflict

    Miller, D., Robinson, P. & Bakir, V., 8 Nov 2016, Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Robinson, P., Seib, P. & Frolich, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 308-320

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  29. Published

    Torture

    Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 1704-1708

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  30. Published

    When the script runs out,…what happens to the polarized war body? Deconstructing western 24/7 news coverage of operation Iraqi freedom 2003.

    Bakir, V., McStay, A., Randell, K. (Editor) & Redmond, S. (Editor), 1 Jan 2008, The War Body on Screen. 2008 ed. Continuum, p. 165-181

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  31. Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › Research › Peer-reviewed
  32. Published

    Sousveillance

    Bakir, V., 30 Mar 2018, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. Arrigo, B. A. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 943-946 4 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionarypeer-review

  33. Paper › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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    In a Veillance Society, can we resist dataveillance of our selves?

    Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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    Misdirection as Propaganda

    Bakir, V., 10 Nov 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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    Sousveillance and Agenda-Building: The end of Privacy, the end of Secrecy?

    Bakir, V., 14 May 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  45. Published

    The Ubiquity and Invisibility of Organised Persuasive Communication

    Bakir, V., Miller, D. & Robinson, P., 8 Jun 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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    Too much secrecy and lies ... again

    Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  48. Published

    Torture for Intelligence in the War on Terror

    Bakir, V., 12 Apr 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  49. Other › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  50. Published

    Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society

    Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOther

  51. Other contribution › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  52. Published

    Changing the Conversation: Beware of Psy-Ops in #USSstrike

    Bakir, V., 25 Mar 2018, Bangor University.

    Research output: Other contribution

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    The Sorry Tale of British Journalism and our Right to Privacy

    Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 22 Mar 2018, 9 p. London : UK Parliament.

    Research output: Other contribution

  56. Other contribution › Research › Peer-reviewed
  57. Published

    Ethics and Empathy-Based Human-AI Partnering: Exploring the Extent to which Cultural Differences Matter When Developing an Ethical Technical Standard

    McStay, A., Andres, F., Bakir, V., Bland, B., Laffer, A., Li, P. & Shimo, S., 28 Aug 2024, IEEE.

    Research output: Other contributionpeer-review

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