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)
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
- 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. 25-38Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
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. 25-38Research 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
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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. 543-551Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 547-548Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-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. 154-175Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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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
- Published
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
- Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
- 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
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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. 656-669Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-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. 504-506Research 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
- 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
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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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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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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