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

  6. Published

    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

  7. Published

    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

  14. Published

    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
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    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

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    Emotional AI in Cities: Cross-cultural Lessons from the UK and Japan on Designing for an Ethical Life

    Bakir, V., Ghotbi, N., Tung, M., Laffer, A., Mantello, P., McStay, A., Miranda, D., Miyashita, H., Podoletz, L., Tanaka, H. & Urquhart, L., 9 Jun 2022, Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design. Carta, S. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell

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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › Research › Peer-reviewed
  33. 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

  34. 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

  46. 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

  49. Published

    Torture for Intelligence in the War on Terror

    Bakir, V., 12 Apr 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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 Other › Research › Not peer-reviewed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

    Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society

    Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOther

  52. Other contribution › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  53. 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

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