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)
- 2019
- Published
Datafied Bearbaiting and Emotional AI: Anticipating the Quantified Jeremy Kyle Show Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry into Reality TV
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2019, UK Parliament, (DCMS).Research output: Working paper
- 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. 311-328Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Against Opacity, Outrage & Deception: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns.
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Dec 2019, UK Parliament.Research output: Working paper
- 2020
- 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
- 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. 263-279Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- 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
- 2021
- 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
- 2022
- Published
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
- 2023
- Published
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
- 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, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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
- Published
Automating empathy: overview, technologies, criticism
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 14 Nov 2023, Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar, p. 656-669Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review