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)
- 2019
- Published
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
- Published
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
- Published
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
- 2020
- Published
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
- 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. 263-279Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
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 journal › Article › peer-review
- 2021
- 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- 2022
- Published
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
- Published
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
- 2023
- Published
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
- Published
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, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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 journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Automating empathy: overview, technologies, criticism
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 14 Nov 2023, Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar, p. 656-669Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- 2024
- 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 journal › Article › peer-review
- 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 contribution › peer-review
- Published
Combatting the Digital Influence Industry within Surveillance Capitalism: the Potentials and Pitfalls of Personal Information Management Systems.
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 15 Oct 2024, Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry..Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
Guarding Against Automated Empathy Attacks on Ontological Security
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 15 Oct 2024, Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry..Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry
Briant, E. L. & Bakir, V., 15 Oct 2024, 1st ed. Routledge. 416 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- Published
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