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)
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Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy & Privacy
Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015, Bangor University.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements: Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Trust: Evaluating Perspectives on Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Leak Era
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 18 Jun 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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. 165-181Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-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. 7-16Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Veillant Panoptic Assemblage: Critically interrogating power, resistance and intelligence accountability through a case sstudy of the Snowdon Leaks
Bakir, V., 22 Jul 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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. 239-243Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication: Iraq, USA, UK.
Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2010, Continuum.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Intelligence Agencies, Public Oversight Mechanisms and Accountability Demands: The Torture-intelligence Policy and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Executive Summary (2014).
Bakir, V., 8 Jun 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Forced Transparency or Equivellant Transparency, post-Snowden (or who is challenging the state’s surveillance agenda of radical transparency?)
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 4 Jul 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Ubiquity and Invisibility of Organised Persuasive Communication
Bakir, V., Miller, D. & Robinson, P., 8 Jun 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Deceptive Organised Persuasive Communication: From Misdirection to Secretly Altering Reality to Fit the Lie you want to Telll
Bakir, V., 15 May 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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International Journal of Press/Politics. Special Issue title: News, Agenda-Building & Intelligence Agencies: Understanding Manipulation and Methodologies
Bakir, V. (Editor), 1 Apr 2015, Sage.Research output: Other contribution › peer-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. 5-18Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Media Agenda-Building, National Security, Trust & Forced Transparency
Bakir, V., 8 Jul 2015, Bangor University.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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. 547-548Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Researching secretive agenda-building on national security issues: some reflections from studying the torture-intelligence nexus (2001-12)
Bakir, V., 1 Oct 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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In a Veillance Society, can we resist dataveillance of our selves?
Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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. 243-254Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Agenda-building struggles in the War on Terror: Secrecy, Silences and Persuasive Misdirection
Bakir, V., 4 Apr 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Misdirection as Propaganda
Bakir, V., 10 Nov 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods: How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 17 Jan 2023, Palgrave Macmillan. 280 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Misinformation and trusted voices: Addressing false information online via provision of authoritative information: Why dialling down emotion is part of the answer
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 12 Oct 2022, 7 p. UK Parliament.Research output: Other contribution
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Datafied Bearbaiting and Emotional AI: Anticipating the Quantified Jeremy Kyle Show Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry into Reality TV
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2019, UK Parliament, (DCMS).Research output: Working paper
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Against Opacity, Outrage & Deception: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns.
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Dec 2019, UK Parliament.Research output: Working paper
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‘Was it ‘AI wot won it’? Hyper-targeting and profiling emotions online’:
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Jun 2017, Political Studies Association.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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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. 12-25Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-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. 1-5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society
Bakir, V., 16 Apr 2018, Routledge. 288 p. (Studies in Intelligence)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Is Deception in Emulated Empathy Innately Bad?
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 13 Dec 2024, IEEE Standards White Paper, Electronic ISBN:979-8-8557-1563-7.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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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. 504-506Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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PSST! Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust: developing an inter-disciplinary response to forced transparency
Bakir, V., McStay, A. & Feilzer, M. Y., 1 Nov 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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. 154-175Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 543-551Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror: Agenda-Building Struggles
Bakir, V., 28 Sept 2013, Ashgate.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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Public Feeling on Privacy, Security and Surveillance: Report for Information Commissioners Office: A Report by DATA-PSST and DCSS for the Information Commissioners Office
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., Nov 2015, 23 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Changing the Conversation: Beware of Psy-Ops in #USSstrike
Bakir, V., 25 Mar 2018, Bangor University.Research output: Other contribution
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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. 25-38Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-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-BlackwellResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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Combatting fake news: analysis of submissions to the fake news inquiry
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 May 2017, 3 p.Research output: Other contribution
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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 proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
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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. 25-38Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns.
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 21 Jan 2020, UK Parliament, (APPG on Electoral Campaigning Transparency).Research output: Working paper
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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. 311-328Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society
Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
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Too much secrecy and lies ... again
Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper