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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    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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    Media Studies

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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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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    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

  8. 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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    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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    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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    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

  13. Published

    Torture for Intelligence in the War on Terror

    Bakir, V., 12 Apr 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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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

  15. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Transparency Today: Exploring the Adequacy of Sur/Sous/Veillance Theory and Practice

    Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015, Bangor University.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

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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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    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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    Misdirection as Propaganda

    Bakir, V., 10 Nov 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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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/ReportOther report

  27. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  28. 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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  29. Published

    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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    Sousveillance and Agenda-Building: The end of Privacy, the end of Secrecy?

    Bakir, V., 14 May 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  31. 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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  32. 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/ReportBookpeer-review

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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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    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

  36. Published

    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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    Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror: Agenda-Building Struggles

    Bakir, V., 28 Sept 2013, Ashgate.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

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

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

    Research output: Other contribution

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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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    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 proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionarypeer-review

  44. 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 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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    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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    Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society

    Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOther

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    Too much secrecy and lies ... again

    Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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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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