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)
- Working paper › Research
- 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
- 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
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
- Other report › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
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
- 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
- Book › Research › Peer-reviewed
- 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
- Published
Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication: Iraq, USA, UK.
Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2010, Continuum.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- Published
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
- Book › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy & Privacy
Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015, Bangor University.Research output: Book/Report › Book
- Published
Media Agenda-Building, National Security, Trust & Forced Transparency
Bakir, V., 8 Jul 2015, Bangor University.Research output: Book/Report › Book
- Published
Media Studies
Long, P., Wall, T., Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 26 Jul 2012, Pearson Education.Research output: Book/Report › Book
- 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
Transparency Today: Exploring the Adequacy of Sur/Sous/Veillance Theory and Practice
Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015, Bangor University.Research output: Book/Report › Book
- Other contribution › Research › Peer-reviewed
- Published
International Journal of Press/Politics. Special Issue title: News, Agenda-Building & Intelligence Agencies: Understanding Manipulation and Methodologies
Bakir, V. (ed.), 1 Apr 2015, Sage.Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
- Other contribution › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Changing the Conversation: Beware of Psy-Ops in #USSstrike
Bakir, V., 25 Mar 2018, Bangor University.Research output: Other contribution
- Published
Combatting fake news: analysis of submissions to the fake news inquiry
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 May 2017, 3 p.Research output: Other contribution
- 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
- 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
- Other › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society
Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
- Paper › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Agenda-building struggles in the War on Terror: Secrecy, Silences and Persuasive Misdirection
Bakir, V., 4 Apr 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Agenda-building struggles in the War on Terror: Strategies and Enunciative Modalities regarding Secrecy, SIlences and Persuasive Misdirection
Bakir, V., 13 Nov 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements: Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Trust: Evaluating Perspectives on Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Leak Era
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 18 Jun 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Deceptive Organised Persuasive Communication: From Misdirection to Secretly Altering Reality to Fit the Lie you want to Telll
Bakir, V., 15 May 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
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
- Published
In a Veillance Society, can we resist dataveillance of our selves?
Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper