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)

 

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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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    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

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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. 25-38

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-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

  8. 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

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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. 543-551

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

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

    Research output: Other contribution

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    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

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    Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy & Privacy

    Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015, Bangor University.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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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

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    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

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    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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    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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    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

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    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 proceedingChapterpeer-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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    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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    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/ReportBookpeer-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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    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 publicationArticle

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    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

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    Media Agenda-Building, National Security, Trust & Forced Transparency

    Bakir, V., 8 Jul 2015, Bangor University.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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    Media Studies

    Long, P., Wall, T., Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 26 Jul 2012, Pearson Education.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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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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    Misdirection as Propaganda

    Bakir, V., 10 Nov 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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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

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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. 243-254

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-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 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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    Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society

    Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOther

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    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

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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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