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. 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

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Media Studies

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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    Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry

    Briant, E. L. & Bakir, V., 15 Oct 2024, 1st ed. Routledge. 416 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

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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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    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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    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

  15. 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. 311-328

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

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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    Misdirection as Propaganda

    Bakir, V., 10 Nov 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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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

  22. Published

    ‘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/ReportOther report

  23. 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

  24. 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

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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/ReportBookpeer-review

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    Torture for Intelligence in the War on Terror

    Bakir, V., 12 Apr 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  27. Published

    Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society

    Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOther

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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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    Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication: Iraq, USA, UK.

    Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2010, Continuum.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

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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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    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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    Too much secrecy and lies ... again

    Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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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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    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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    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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    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

  44. 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 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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    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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    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

  50. Published

    Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy & Privacy

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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