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Professor Vian Bakir

Professor in Journalism and Political Communications

Affiliations

ORCID: 0000-0002-6828-8384

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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  1. 2024
  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 2023
  9. Published

    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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  10. 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

  11. 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, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  13. 2022
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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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  16. 2021
  17. 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

  18. 2020
  19. 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 2019
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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 journal › Article › peer-review

  25. Published
  26. 2018
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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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  28. Published

    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

  29. 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 proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review

  30. Published

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

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

    Research output: Other contribution

  31. Published

    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

  32. 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 journal › Article › peer-review

  33. 2017
  34. 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/Report › Other report

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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 journal › Article › peer-review

  37. 2016
  38. Published

    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

  39. Published

    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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  40. Published

    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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  41. 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  42. 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  43. 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  44. 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 journal › Article › peer-review

  45. 2015
  46. 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 journal › Article › peer-review

  47. Published
  48. Published

    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 journal › Article › peer-review

  49. Published
  50. Published

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

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

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  54. Published

    The Ubiquity and Invisibility of Organised Persuasive Communication

    Bakir, V., Miller, D. & Robinson, P., 8 Jun 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  55. Published
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  57. Published

    Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy & Privacy

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  58. Published

    Too much secrecy and lies ... again

    Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  59. Published

    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 journal › Article › peer-review

  60. Published

    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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