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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‘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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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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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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Transparency Today: Exploring the Adequacy of Sur/Sous/Veillance Theory and Practice
Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015, Bangor University.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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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Torture for Intelligence in the War on Terror
Bakir, V., 12 Apr 2013.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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Too much secrecy and lies ... again
Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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
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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. 308-320Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › 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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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. 131-144Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Misdirection as Propaganda
Bakir, V., 10 Nov 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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 Studies
Long, P., Wall, T., Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 26 Jul 2012, Pearson Education.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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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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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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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
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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. 263-279Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › 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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Embedded Reporters
Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 547-549Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review