Yr Athro Vian Bakir
Professor in Journalism and Political Communications
Gwybodaeth Cyswllt
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)
Addysgu ac Arolygiaeth
Teaching and Supervision
Undergraduate modules taught:
- Issues in Media & Journalism
- Journalism and Risk Society
- Media, Politics & Society
- Digital Journalism & Society
- Dissertation in Journalism & Media Studies
PhD and MRes students:
I am interested in supervising students in a wide range of areas including contemporary political communication, journalism, disinformation, deception, digital media, intelligence elites, discourse, accountability and power.
Current (1st supervisor)
- Aliah Nur Mansor: PhD: Online Fan Communities and Information Marketing Strategy of Japanese Popular Music: A Case of Johnny’s & Associates.
- Gehad Ibrahim. PhD. Journalistic Documentary in Post-Truth Dictatorships
Diddordebau Ymchwil
I research the interplay between journalism and political and risk communication across 4 areas:
- Disinformation, propaganda and Emotional AI
- Issues of trust, accuracy and credibility in journalism;
- Media agenda-building struggles;
- The security state and public accountability.
Keywords
Emotional AI, strategic political communication, journalism, TV, social media, civil society, surveillance, sousveillance, social resistance, agenda-building, trust, intelligence agencies, risk communication, propaganda, persuasion, fake news, disinformation, emotion
Research Monographs:
Bakir, V. and A. McStay, 2022. Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods. Palgrave-Macmillan/Springer. [open access]
Bakir, V. 2018.Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society. London: Routledge.
Bakir, V. 2013. Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror: Agenda–Building Struggles. Routledge.
Bakir, V. 2010. Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication: Iraq, USA, UK. New York: Continuum.
Bakir, V. & D.Barlow, (eds.) 2007. Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Research awards:
As an inter-disciplinary scholar, I have won awards from diverse funding bodies including AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC. A list of my funded projects are at: 0000-0002-6828-8384
Current grants comprise:
2020 – 2023: £710,000 (comprising £497,710 FEC from ESRC, & 29,645,000 Yen from Japan Science & Technology funds). Part of UKRI-JST Joint Call on Artificial Intelligence and Society, our project is on Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life. PI Andrew McStay. Co-I Vian Bakir. Other Investigators: Lachlan Urquhart (Edinburgh Univ.), Diana Miranda (Northumbria Univ.), Peter Mantello (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.), Hiromi Tanaka (Meiji Univ.), Nader Ghotbi (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.), Hiroshi Miyashita (Chuo Univ.). Grant ref. ES/T00696X/1.
2022: £7,000 from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Discipline hopping grant - Achieving Net Zero: A Feasibility Study into the Technical and Communicative Challenges to using Waste Heat from Nuclear Power to Heat Greenhouses (PI Anita Crompton, Co-I Vian Bakir).
2022: £44,239.25 from Bangor University Impact Accelerator Account. ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics & Policing in North Wales: Establishing Citizens’ Perspectives’ (Bethan Loftus (PI), Andrew McStay (Co-I), Martina Feilzer (Co-I), Vian Bakir, (Co-I)).
Cyfleoedd Project Ôl-radd
Cyhoeddiadau
2023
- Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasgHuman-first, please: Assessing citizen views and industrial ambition for emotional AI in recommender systems
Bakir, V., Laffer, A. & McStay, A., 3 Mai 2023, (Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasg) Yn: Surveillance and Society.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydOptimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods: How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 17 Ion 2023, Palgrave Macmillan. 280 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr
2022
- CyhoeddwydMisinformation 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 Hyd 2022, 7 t. UK Parliament.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall › Cyfraniad Arall
2021
- CyhoeddwydFreedom or Security? Mass Surveillance of Citizens
Bakir, V., 3 Medi 2021, Handbook of Global Media Ethics. Ward, S. J. A. (gol.). Switzerland: Springer, t. 939-959 21 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2020
- CyhoeddwydCULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns.
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 21 Ion 2020, UK Parliament, (APPG on Electoral Campaigning Transparency).
Allbwn ymchwil: Papur gweithio › Papur Gwaith - CyhoeddwydEmpathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 3 Medi 2020, Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means. Boler, M. & Davis, E. (gol.). Routledge, t. 263-279
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydPsychological Operations in Digital Political Campaigns: Assessing Cambridge Analytica's Psychographic Profiling and Targeting
Bakir, V., 3 Medi 2020, Yn: Frontiers in Communication. 2020, 67.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2019
- CyhoeddwydAgainst Opacity, Outrage & Deception: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns.
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Rhag 2019, UK Parliament.
Allbwn ymchwil: Papur gweithio › Papur Gwaith - CyhoeddwydDatafied 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).
Allbwn ymchwil: Papur gweithio › Papur Gwaith - CyhoeddwydOrganized 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 Mai 2019, Yn: Critical Sociology. 45, 3, t. 311-328
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2018
- CyhoeddwydChanging the Conversation: Beware of Psy-Ops in #USSstrike
Bakir, V., 25 Maw 2018, Bangor University.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall › Cyfraniad Arall - CyhoeddwydFake News and the Economy of Emotions: Problems, Causes, Solutions
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2018, Yn: Digital Journalism. 6, 2, t. 154-175
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydIntelligence Elites and Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society
Bakir, V., 16 Ebrill 2018, Routledge. 288 t. (Studies in Intelligence)
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydLying and politics
Robinson, P., Miller, D., Herring, E. & Bakir, V., 22 Tach 2018, The Oxford Handbook of Lying. Meibauer, J. (gol.). Oxford University Press, (Oxford Handbooks).
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydSousveillance
Bakir, V., 30 Maw 2018, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. Arrigo, B. A. (gol.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, t. 943-946 4 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Cofnod mewn Gwyddoniadur/Geiriadur › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydThe Sorry Tale of British Journalism and our Right to Privacy
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 22 Maw 2018, 9 t. London : UK Parliament.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall › Cyfraniad Arall
2017
- CyhoeddwydCombatting fake news: analysis of submissions to the fake news inquiry
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Mai 2017, 3 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall › Cyfraniad Arall - CyhoeddwydIntroduction 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 Maw 2017, Yn: Big Data and Society. 4, 1, t. 1-5
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd‘Was it ‘AI wot won it’? Hyper-targeting and profiling emotions online’:
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Meh 2017, Political Studies Association.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Adoddiad Arall
2016
- CyhoeddwydAbu Ghraib
Bakir, V., 21 Rhag 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (gol.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, 5 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydDisinformation
Bakir, V., 21 Rhag 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War : Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (gol.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, t. 504-506
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydEmbedded Reporters
Bakir, V., 21 Rhag 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (gol.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, t. 547-549
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydNews, Media and the Intelligence Community
Bakir, V., 8 Tach 2016, Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Robinson, P., Seib, P. & Frolich, R. (gol.). Routledge, t. 243-254
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydPolitical-intelligence elites, Strategic Political Communication and the press: the need for, and utility of, a benchmark of public accountability demands
Bakir, V., 16 Medi 2016, Yn: Intelligence and National Security. t. 1-22 22 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydPropaganda and Persuasion in Contemporary Conflict
Miller, D., Robinson, P. & Bakir, V., 8 Tach 2016, Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Robinson, P., Seib, P. & Frolich, R. (gol.). Routledge, t. 308-320
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydTorture
Bakir, V., 21 Rhag 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (gol.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, t. 1704-1708
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2015
- CyhoeddwydAssessing interdisciplinary academic and mult-istakeholder positions on transparency in the post-Snowden leak era
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Rhag 2015, Yn: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, t. 25-38
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydAssessing interdisciplinary academic and multi-stakeholder positions on transparency in the post-Snowden leak era
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2015, Yn: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, t. 25-38
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydDebating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements: Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Trust: Evaluating Perspectives on Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Leak Era
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 18 Meh 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydDebating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy & Privacy
Bakir, V., 24 Maw 2015, Bangor University.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr - CyhoeddwydDeceptive Organised Persuasive Communication: From Misdirection to Secretly Altering Reality to Fit the Lie you want to Telll
Bakir, V., 15 Mai 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydForced Transparency or Equivellant Transparency, post-Snowden (or who is challenging the state’s surveillance agenda of radical transparency?)
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 4 Gorff 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydIn a Veillance Society, can we resist dataveillance of our selves?
Bakir, V., 6 Ion 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydIntelligence Agencies, Public Oversight Mechanisms and Accountability Demands: The Torture-intelligence Policy and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Executive Summary (2014).
Bakir, V., 8 Meh 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydInternational Journal of Press/Politics. Special Issue title: News, Agenda-Building & Intelligence Agencies: Understanding Manipulation and Methodologies
Bakir, V. (gol.), 1 Ebrill 2015, Sage.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall › Cyfraniad Arall › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydMedia Agenda-Building, National Security, Trust & Forced Transparency
Bakir, V., 8 Gorff 2015, Bangor University.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr - CyhoeddwydNews, Agenda Building, and Intelligence Agencies: A Systematic Review of the Field from the Discipline of Journalism, Media, and Communications
Bakir, V., 30 Ion 2015, Yn: International Journal of Press/politics. 20, 2, t. 131-144
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydThe Ubiquity and Invisibility of Organised Persuasive Communication
Bakir, V., Miller, D. & Robinson, P., 8 Meh 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydThe Veillant Panoptic Assemblage: Critically interrogating power, resistance and intelligence accountability through a case sstudy of the Snowdon Leaks
Bakir, V., 22 Gorff 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydToo much secrecy and lies ... again
Bakir, V., 24 Maw 2015.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydTransparency Today: Exploring the Adequacy of Sur/Sous/Veillance Theory and Practice
Bakir, V., 6 Ion 2015, Bangor University.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr - CyhoeddwydVeillant Panoptic Assemblage: Mutual Watching and Resistance to Mass Surveillance after Snowden
Bakir, V., 8 Hyd 2015, Yn: Media and Communication. 3, 3, t. 12-25
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2014
- CyhoeddwydAgenda-building struggles in the War on Terror: Secrecy, Silences and Persuasive Misdirection
Bakir, V., 4 Ebrill 2014.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydMisdirection as Propaganda
Bakir, V., 10 Tach 2014.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydPrivacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society
Bakir, V., 1 Gorff 2014.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Arall
2013
- CyhoeddwydAgenda-building struggles in the War on Terror: Strategies and Enunciative Modalities regarding Secrecy, SIlences and Persuasive Misdirection
Bakir, V., 13 Tach 2013.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydBook Review: Jaques Ranciere, The Emancipated Spectator and Rod Stoneman, Chavez.
Bakir, V., 14 Tach 2013, Yn: Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. 16, 4, t. 543-551
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydPSST! Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust: developing an inter-disciplinary response to forced transparency
Bakir, V., McStay, A. & Feilzer, M. Y., 1 Tach 2013.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydResearching secretive agenda-building on national security issues: some reflections from studying the torture-intelligence nexus (2001-12)
Bakir, V., 1 Hyd 2013.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydSousveillance and Agenda-Building: The end of Privacy, the end of Secrecy?
Bakir, V., 14 Mai 2013.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydTorture for Intelligence in the War on Terror
Bakir, V., 12 Ebrill 2013.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur - CyhoeddwydTorture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror: Agenda-Building Struggles
Bakir, V., 28 Medi 2013, Ashgate.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2012
- CyhoeddwydBook Review: Tarik Sabry, Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On the Media, the Modern and the Everyday
Bakir, V., 1 Ebrill 2012, Yn: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 15, 4, t. 547-548
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydMedia Studies
Long, P., Wall, T., Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 26 Gorff 2012, Pearson Education.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr
2011
- CyhoeddwydTorture and intelligence in the War on Terror: The struggle over strategic political communication.
Bakir, V., 1 Rhag 2011, Yn: Global Media and Communication. 7, 3, t. 239-243
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2010
- CyhoeddwydMedia and risk: old and new research directions.
Bakir, V., 1 Ion 2010, Yn: Journal of Risk Research. 13, 1, t. 5-18
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - CyhoeddwydSousveillance, media and strategic political communication: Iraq, USA, UK.
Bakir, V., 1 Ion 2010, Continuum.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2009
- CyhoeddwydTele-technologies, control, and sousveillance: Saddam Hussein - de-deification and the beast.
Bakir, V., 1 Ion 2009, Yn: Popular Communication. 7, 1, t. 7-16
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2008
- CyhoeddwydWhen 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. (gol.) & Redmond, S. (gol.), 1 Ion 2008, The War Body on Screen. 2008 gol. Continuum, t. 165-181
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
Gweithgareddau
2023
- expert evaluator for EU HORIZON - DEMOCRACY/The emotional politics of democracies
Across April-Jul, I was an expert for the evaluation of the EU Commission Democracy 01 topic: HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-04: The emotional politics of democracies
31 Maw 2023 – 7 Gorff 2023
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Ofcom Theory of Change Evaluation Toolkit - training workshop
Theory of Change Evaluation Toolkit - training workshop
30 Maw 2023
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs (Cyfranogwr) - Briefing for Ofcom's Making Sense of Media Working Group
Briefing for Ofcom Making Sense of Media Working Group – Discussion on Creativity and the Public - Presentation on using Interactive narrative, design fiction & ContraVision to explore UK public’s views on emotional AI
29 Maw 2023
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - New media and society (Cyfnodolyn)
9 Maw 2023
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Palgrave macmillan - Springer (Cyhoeddwr)
reviewed book proposal
27 Ion 2023
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Online Media Literacy Strategy Stakeholder meeting
Held by LSE on behalf of DCMS.
26 Ion 2023
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - OFCOM meeting - Making Sense of Media Group
attended OFCOM meeting and presented on media literacy research from Emotional AI Lab
25 Ion 2023
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - Social Media + Society (Cyfnodolyn)
23 Ion 2023
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
2022
- Reviewer for Leverhulme
Reviewer for Leverhulme fellowship
11 Tach 2022
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - Interviewed for The National on disinformation, Twitter, and Scottish independence
SPECIAL REPORT: Anti-independence disinformation fears amid Elon Musk's blue tick plan
8 Tach 2022
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - Journal of Cyber Policy (Cyfnodolyn)
8 Tach 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Provided advice to journalist on political communication and Twitter
Advised a reporter from the National.
7 Tach 2022
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - International Journal of Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
24 Hyd 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Surveillance and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
21 Hyd 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Talk with TiiQu
Discussion about the potential market and viability of an organisation offering truth validated on the blockchain.
19 Hyd 2022
Cysylltau:
- https://www.tiiqu.com/
- https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/10/19/the-future-of-truth-and-misinformation-online/
- Expert reviewer for European Research Agency for evaluations of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2022
7 Hyd 2022 – 20 Ion 2023
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - ESRC Peer Review College member
Continued membership of ESRC Peer Review College, as it refreshes its structures
28 Medi 2022 – 28 Medi 2028
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod) - Keynote: ‘The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences in AI Policymaking: A Personal Journey of Twists and Turns in the Service of Solving ‘Wicked Problems’. Alan Turing Institute Networking Event - AI, Public Policy and Social Sciences and Humanities
Invited Keynote - approx 45 participants
23 Medi 2022
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Prif siaradwr/siaradwr mewn sesiwn lawn) - 'Addressing false information online via provision of authoritative information: Why dialling down emotion is part of the answer', Submission to UK Parliament Online Harms and Disinformation Sub-Committee Inquiry into Misinformation and Trusted Voices, September 2022
False information proliferates online, despite years of multi-stakeholder efforts to quell it. In September 2022, Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms, SHiLSS) and Andrew McStay (Prof. of Digital Life, SHiLSS) were invited by the UK Parliament’s Online Harms and Disinformation Sub-Committee to provide evidence to their Inquiry into Misinformation and Trusted Voices. They addressed one of the Inquiry’s questions: namely: Is the provision of authoritative information responsive enough to meet the challenge of misinformation that is spread on social media? Now published, one of their conclusions is that rather than having to make difficult content moderation decisions about what is true and false on the fly and at scale, it may be better to ensure that digital platforms’ algorithms optimise emotions for social good rather than just for the platform and its advertisers’ profit. What this social good optimisation would look like is worthy of further study, but they posit that this would likely involve dialling down the platform’s emotional contagion, and engagement, of users.
14 Medi 2022 – 14 Hyd 2022
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - WORKING GROUP MEMBER: OFCOM Making Sense of Media Research Working Group
This Working Group has two primary aims.
1) to inform Ofcom's media literacy and wider online safety research activity; and
2) to improve the sector-wide research evidence base in these areas.
The Working Group will share and evaluate methodologies and metrics from a wide range of relevant research, and will report regularly to the MSOM Advisory Panel.
1 Medi 2022 – 1 Medi 2023
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Aelod) - Advisory Board member for European Research Council Starting Grants project, TRUE
Advisory Board member for European Research Council Starting Grants project, TRUE: Trust in User-generated Evidence: Analysing the Impact of Deepfakes on Accountability Processes for Human Rights Violations. (PI Yvonne McDermott, Swansea Univ.)
1 Awst 2022 – 1 Awst 2027
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - Frontiers in Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed paper
1 Awst 2022 – 11 Awst 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Peter Lang (Cyhoeddwr)
book proposal review
22 Mai 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Expert reviewer, Rapporteur and Final Panel member for Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON). Reshaping democracies (HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01)
5 grants reviewed, and consensus reports written
14 Mai 2022 – 20 Gorff 2022
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
6 Mai 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - FAKE NEWS: INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR VIAN BAKIR
Blog post - interview with project team for EU-funded citizen science and data project, CSI-COP (that investigates GDPR compliance to better understand how far we are being tracked-by-default as we use the Internet visiting websites and apps on our mobile devices).
6 Mai 2022
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr) - ESRC National Capability in Behavioural Research Workshop
Participated in the ESRC’s National Capability in Behavioural Research consultation. It informs the ESRC’s models for funding social science research into behavioural research, an area of increasing interest to government and diverse disciplines
28 Ebr 2022
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - SSRC/ESRC International workshops on Trust in Democratic Institutions
Across March, Prof Vian Bakir (School of History, Law & Social Science) participated in a series of high-level workshops by US-based Social Science Research Council and the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, who are working together to better understand and further explore theoretical, analytical, methodological, and empirical challenges surrounding trust in democratic institutions. These organisations brought together experts from both sides of the Atlantic to share ideas, knowledge and experience. This will inform a joint call from the US and UK research councils that will fund a series of international and interdisciplinary projects that can better inform policy, improve public trust, and have positive societal impact. Bakir contributed ideas on Understanding Trust from her edited book with David Barlow, Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media (2007). She contributed ideas on Manipulating Trust from her forthcoming book with Andrew McStay, Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehood (in press 2022).
24 Maw 2022 – 31 Maw 2022
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - Chilean Journal in Communication (Perspectivas de la Comunicación) (Cyfnodolyn)
14 Maw 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (Cyfnodolyn)
23 Chwef 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Provided info on research data creation and use for European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Completed invited survey by research institute Visionary Analytics in partnership with EFIS, DCC, and DANS is conducting a study on the European research data landscape commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD).
8 Chwef 2022
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - Consultation with APPG on Extraordinary Rendition
Arising from a recent conference paper on intelligence oversight, I provided advice and discussed own published work with APPG on how to improve intelligence accountability on the issue of extraordinary rendition, to ensure that such activities could never happen again in the UK.
1 Chwef 2022
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - GUARDINT EU Project. Intelligence, surveillance, and oversight: tracing connections and contestations
Panel discussant: ‘Public Accountability of Intelligence Agencies and the Sousveillance Generation’. GUARDINT EU Project Conference. Intelligence, surveillance, and oversight: tracing connections and contestations. Kings College, University of London.
26 Ion 2022 – 27 Ion 2022
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
2021
- Routledge Taylor & Francis (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal
3 Rhag 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - New media and society (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewer
28 Tach 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Article in Hamodia on Fake News
Interviewed for this New York-based Jewish newspaper
23 Tach 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfwelai) - Peer reviewer for AHRC
6 Tach 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - Interview with Prof Vian Bakir - Solutions to Global Misinformation
Interview for EU Horizon 2020 project newsletter on Citizen Science (Citizen Scientists Investigating Cookies and App GDPR compliance:)
1 Hyd 2021
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr) - Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
28 Medi 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Media, War & Conflict (Cyfnodolyn)
16 Medi 2021 – 1 Ion 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Polish Political Science Yearbook (Cyfnodolyn)
23 Awst 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Surveillance and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
2 Awst 2021 – 10 Hyd 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - White Paper - GOVERNING PHILOSOPHIES IN TECHNOLOGY POLICY: PERMISSIONLESS INNOVATION VS. THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
ROSNER, G. & BAKIR, V. (2021). GOVERNING PHILOSOPHIES IN TECHNOLOGY POLICY: PERMISSIONLESS INNOVATION VS. THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE. WORKING PAPER, JULY. FUNDED BY EPSRC HUMAN-DATA INTERACTION NETWORK
1 Awst 2021
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o Fusnes a Chymuned - Ymgynghoriaeth (mewn da) (Cyfrannwr) - The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique (Cyfnodolyn)
2 Gorff 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - AI & Society (Cyfnodolyn)
25 Meh 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Nature Human Behaviour (Cyfnodolyn)
25 Meh 2021 – 19 Rhag 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - A humanities-led intervention into responsible and ethical AI
- Took part in workshop to advise AHRC on what would constitute a humanities-led intervention into responsible and ethical AI (workshop organised by Ada Lovelace Institute and the Institute for Ethics in AI).
28 Mai 2021
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfranogwr) - Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Implications of an Ontology of Mediated Emotion, Data Justice Conference 2021
14 Mai 2021
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - Reviewer for German Research Foundation (DFG)
Reviewed for collaborative AHRC-DFG proposal
3 Mai 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - Emotional AI Lab: cross-cultural conversations
Emotional AI & Civic Discourse: interim insights and next steps. Emotional AI Lab, University of Bangor and Ritsumeikan APU, April 2021.
28 Ebr 2021
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation
Book launch and panel discussion
23 Ebr 2021 – 28 Ebr 2021
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr) - Panel Reviewer Norwegian Research Council
Panel reviewer (19 grants)
20 Ebr 2021 – 4 Mai 2022
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - Frontiers in Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
29 Maw 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - theory, culture and society (Cyfnodolyn)
29 Maw 2021 →
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Reviewer - Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies - EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - H2020 programme
15 Maw 2021 – 15 Ebr 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - International Journal of Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
22 Chwef 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Frontiers in Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Chwef 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Globalizations (Cyfnodolyn)
Review of journal paper
25 Ion 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps
40 page Interim Report on progress on Innovate UK research project and insights for Cufflink to feed into design of their app.
21 Ion 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o Fusnes a Chymuned - Ymgynghoriaeth (mewn da) (Cyfrannwr) - Reviewer, National Science Centre, Poland
Reviewer for large grants - MAESTRO-12, Panel: HS6 (Human nature and human society)
6 Ion 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Frontiers in Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
2 Ion 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Editorial Board Member
1 Ion 2021 – 1 Ion 2023
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod)
2020
- Swiss National Science Foundation
reviewer
22 Rhag 2020
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Frontiers in Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
peer reviewer
1 Tach 2020 – 6 Ion 2021
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - COVID-19: How can we communicate risk in a post-truth world?
XXXII Meeting of Philosophy & Theory of Human Sciences, Philosophy Department, Unesp, Brazil
26 Hyd 2020
Cysylltau:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAcU0LEkg0
- https://www.slideshare.net/VianBakir/bakir-talk-brazil-26-oct2020
- Submission to Inquiry on Impact of Social Media on Elections and Electoral Administration - Victoria Parliament, Australia - plus resulting influence
Invited written submission (Aug 2020) to the Victoria Parliament (Australia) Electoral Matters Committee’s Inquiry into the Impact of Social Media on Elections and Electoral Administration. Informed the Inquiry's Final Report's findings and recommendations (Sep 2021).
24 Awst 2020 – 20 Medi 2021
Cysylltau:
- https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/EMC/21._Vian_Bakir_and_Andrew_McStay_Redacted.pdf
- https://parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/emc/Social_Media_Inquiry/EMC_Final_Report.pdf
- Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
6 Awst 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Emotional AI and Civil Rights: The Salutary Case of Facebook
Blog piece
4 Awst 2020
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr) - reviewer AHRC COVID-19 call
1 Awst 2020 – 31 Awst 2020
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Adolygydd) - Virtual Mind the PR Gap 2020: AI, creativity and fake news in a post Covid-19 world.
keynote
9 Gorff 2020 – 10 Gorff 2020
Cysylltau:
- https://pracademy.co.uk/insights/sign-up-for-mind-the-pr-gap/
- https://pracademy.co.uk/insights/fake-news-how-to-solve-a-really-wicked-problem/
- Reviewing grant applications
Reviewer ESRC-COVID-19
1 Gorff 2020 – 31 Gorff 2020
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - AGAINST OPACITY, OUTRAGE & DECEPTION: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns. Evidence submitted to House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.
Evidence and recommendations published in the report, Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust, published by the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.
To prevent further harm, our evidence recommends greater transparency of digital campaigns, better media literacy for voters, and self-reflection by political campaigners on things like the informativeness and civility of their own campaign.
Building on such evidence, the House of Lords’ report makes an urgent case for reform of electoral law as well as our overwhelming need to become a digitally literate society.
29 Meh 2020
Cysylltau:
- https://committees.parliament.uk/download/file/?url=%2Fwrittenevidence%2F352%2Fdocuments%2F383%3Fconvertiblefileformat%3Dhtml&slug=dad0019-network-for-media-and-persuasive-communicaiton-bangor-universityhtml
- https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5801/ldselect/lddemdigi/77/7702.htm
- https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/1634/documents/17731/default/
- UKRI -AHRC COVID-19 expert peer group reviewer
25 Meh 2020 →
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - ESRC reviewer - New Investigator Programme
16 Meh 2020
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Adolygydd) - Frontiers: Political Communication (Cyhoeddwr)
10 Meh 2020 – 10 Awst 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Digital Journalism (Cyfnodolyn)
3 Meh 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - EPSRC Research Centre Panel Reviewer - Protecting Citizens Online
Panel reviewer for EPSRC Research Centre Competition (£7million) - Protecting Ciizens Online
1 Meh 2020 – 22 Meh 2020
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Adolygydd) - Advisory Board Member for EU Horizon2020 CSI-COP project
1 Mai 2020 – 30 Ebr 2023
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - Centre for Information Governance Research Annual Conference, Univ. of Sussex,
30 Ebr 2020 – 1 Mai 2020
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - International workshop and seminar on (Mediated) Emotion in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Co-organised a two-hour workshop and seminar on (Mediated) Emotion in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic, run with Deakin University, Australia and Bangor University, UK. Presented a paper on Managing public emotions & behaviour in a risk issue.
28 Ebr 2020
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.
Briefing Paper for All Party Parliamentary Group on Electoral Campaigning Transparency.
20 Ebr 2020
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - Older People & Digital Literacy
Briefing Paper for All Party Parliamentary Group on Electoral Campaigning Transparency.
10 Ebr 2020
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - Reviewer for Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Jens Christian Skou Fellowship
6 Ebr 2020 – 16 Ebr 2020
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Adolygydd) - Reviewer for Norwegian Research Council. COVID-19 Emergency Call
reviewed 10 applications
6 Ebr 2020 – 15 Ebr 2020
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Adolygydd) - Reviewer: Univ. of Aarhus EU Union Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme -Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Reviewed 6 applications for Univ. of Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies COFUND fellowships for junior & senior researchers in 2020/2021 funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.
29 Maw 2020 – 20 Ebr 2020
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Adolygydd) - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed article
17 Chwef 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Media and Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed paper
17 Chwef 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Journalism Practice (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed journal article
16 Chwef 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Routledge Taylor & Francis (Cyhoeddwr)
reviewed book proposal
14 Chwef 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Critical Sociology (Cyfnodolyn)
15 Ion 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (Cyfnodolyn)
5 Ion 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Digital Journalism (Cyfnodolyn)
3 Ion 2020
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
2019
- Policy and Internet (Cyfnodolyn)
Policy & Internet
17 Rhag 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Tackling Grand Challenges in Society - AI & Democracy
Fellowship talk to Law Schools of KU Leuven & University of Edinburgh KU Leuven University
17 Rhag 2019 – 18 Rhag 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr) - External assessor. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
Reviewed grant proposals
6 Rhag 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr) - SVT national radio
interviewed on Swedish radio about fake news
25 Tach 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - AHRC reviewer -
Reviewed grant for UK-China connections
11 Tach 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - peer reviewer for AHRC
Peer reviewed large grants
5 Tach 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Final Report - Emotional AI - Japan and UK. Final Report on a Conversation between cultures
Funded by Economic & Social Research Council - Arts & Humanities Research Council - UK-Japan Social Sciences & Humanities Connections grant
1 Tach 2019
Cysylltau:
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GglzWFCPmNnROuCJf3EvuNG_uDo9b1xL/view
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hwc8TBGcmXqsh6tDSEUWdy8Nt9w1-chf/view
- Media and Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed article
20 Hyd 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Reviewer for Austrian Research Council
reviewed grant
29 Medi 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Reviewer for Responsible Innovation Programme, the Netherlands
Reviewed large inter-disciplinary grant
12 Medi 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Workshop on emotional AI
Multi-Stakeholder (government, NGO, company, regulator), multi-disciplinary (media, journalism, law, criminology, Ai ethics, robotics, big data) workshop to discuss UK-Japan elements of emotional AI
9 Medi 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr) - CULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns
Based on our synthesis of research from academia, investigative journalism and regulatory and political inquiries, we find:
- Extensive use of deception and emotion in campaigning for the 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum.
- Techniques for targeting citizens with emotive and deceptive information have intensified in terms of granularity of targeting; and remain hidden from the view of the wider community or nation.
- False messages prompt reactions of fear, disgust and surprise, and have a propensity towards recirculation online.
To address this, we recommend:
- That there be incentives for digital political campaigners to act ethically, and for their behaviour to be critically and regularly reflected upon by society.
- Specifically, we recommend the institution of publicly available self-evaluations by all political campaign groups post-elections to: Summarise which audiences were targeted, and with what success; Reflect upon which aspects of the campaign most succeeded in mobilising voters (e.g. specific adverts, messages, themes, memes); Reflect upon whether the campaign gave voters enough information with which to make an informed choice on which to base their electoral decision (i.e. was information true, complete, undistorted and relevant?); Reflect upon to what extent the campaign was civil.
- We further recommend that this self-reporting be incentivised via: An independent panel (of diverse stakeholders, including fact-checkers, academics, and campaigners from opposing sides) to verify, and critically comment upon, the self-evaluations; A kite-mark system to brand the veracity and civility of the campaigning; Ensuring that this is covered by the media, post-election, and that the analysis is available online in a public archive.
2 Awst 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - International Journal of Press/politics (Cyfnodolyn)
23 Gorff 2019 – 1 Hyd 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Mass Communication and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
23 Gorff 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Emotional AI & disinformation.
Public talk in Beppu, Japan
16 Gorff 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr) - Weaponisation of Politics & Civic Discourse
8 Gorff 2019 – 12 Gorff 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr) - Panel reviewer
Reviewer and panel member for 23 large grants on risk and technology
1 Gorff 2019 – 1 Hyd 2019
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - External Examiner for MA Digital Media & Society
External Examiner for MA Digital Media & Society
1 Meh 2019 – 1 Meh 2022
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr) - Journalism post-Snowden: a simple guide to protecting your information & contacts
This 50-page guide is designed to help journalists in the UK and Ireland protect their sources and data in the current era of surveillance and hacking of data. Such protection is vital in order to enable whistle-blowing and investigative reporting, but is increasingly under threat given the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act [2016] and surveillance by the police. Our full guide is hosted on the NUJ’s website (members only).
1 Meh 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - Parliamentary submission: Datafied Bearbaiting and Emotional AI: Anticipating the Quantified Jeremy Kyle Show. Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry into Reality TV
The UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee launched the Reality TV inquiry in May 2019 following events leading up to the decision to axe The Jeremy Kyle Show. It is considering the duty of care offered by broadcasters and programme makers to participants of reality TV shows.
The Network for Media & Persuasive Communication submitted written evidence focusing on DCMS' question: What is the future for reality TV of this kind? How does it accord with our understanding of, and evolving attitudes to, mental health?
The submission offers a cautionary note on a likely future of reality media - where the media industry makes use of data about emotions to add new layers of engagement through “emotional AI”. This emotional AI entails affective computing and AI techniques that read and react to emotions through text, voice, computer vision and biometric sensing. While usage of emotional AI has scope to enhance experience of media, there is scope for abuse when competing for audience attention, engagement and advertising revenue.
The submission recommends that:
- Regulators and policymakers are suitably aware of media and technological trends described in this document: namely, the potential dangers of a media environment in which emotion is quantified and utilised by the media industry.
- Media companies and home technology providers understand that regulators and policymakers are aware of these developments and are willing to regulate if there is misuse,or if individual, collective or technological vulnerabilities (such as lack of awareness of “consent” to domestic profiling) are exploited.
- There is further engagement with academics and other specialists on these questions.
1 Meh 2019 – 1 Medi 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - Sociology Compass (Cyfnodolyn)
10 Mai 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Mass Communication and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
29 Ebr 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Critical Sociology (Cyfnodolyn)
29 Maw 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - What if we knew when people were lying?
BBC news article. Bakir cited within.
25 Maw 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - Journalism (Cyfnodolyn)
Journalism
8 Maw 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Policy and Politics (Cyfnodolyn)
25 Chwef 2019
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism Practice (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed article on disinformation and journalism
7 Chwef 2019 →
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
2018
- I am not worried about Russia. I'm concerned about the misuse of people's feelings. Vecer
Interviewed for long article in Slovenian naitonal newspaper, Vecer, following my talk at Grounded Festival, Slovenia.
Vian Bakir, a British professor of political communication and journalism, and a researcher on the dangers of political manipulation through social networks and the media, on the supervision in the name of national security, and on whether all this can strengthen democracy.
22 Rhag 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - Information, Communication & Society (Cyfnodolyn)
19 Rhag 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (Cyfnodolyn)
11 Rhag 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Information, Communication & Society (Cyfnodolyn)
9 Rhag 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Regulating Digital Campaigning: What is to be Done?
Invited to a conference on Regulating Digital Campaigning: What is to be Done? in Portcullis House, Lodnon. The conference programme has been devised in collaboration with the Cabinet Office, Electoral Commission, and Information Commissioner’s Office, and the conference is hosted by the DCMS Select Committee.
29 Tach 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfranogwr) - Telltale signs of deceitful public relations campaign
28 Tach 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - SURVEILLING THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPERVISORS: DEMOCRATIC PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS.
Invited talk on digital surveillance, public accountability of intelligence agencies; and follow-on discussion and media interviews on fake news and disinformation.
21 Tach 2018 – 23 Tach 2018
Cysylltau:
- https://www.grounded.si/speakers/vian-bakir/
- https://twitter.com/BRajgelj/status/1076808427098255360
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1576&v=WotCeN6Gyqg
- Political Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
16 Tach 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - United International College Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
Grant reviewer.
16 Tach 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Oxford University Press (Cyhoeddwr)
publication
1 Tach 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr) - International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
25 Hyd 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Norway Research Council - Panel member for SAMRISK
Evaluating numerous large grants on risk. Panel member.
25 Hyd 2018 – 14 Tach 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Reviewer for European Commission H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
5 Hyd 2018 – 2 Tach 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
18 Medi 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - journalism studies (Cyfnodolyn)
18 Medi 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal
14 Medi 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - external consultant for Promotion to Reader
14 Medi 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship reviewer
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships July 2018
13 Medi 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - ‘Fake news’ to get worse says Bangor University media expert. Daily Post, 5 Sep 2018
Bakir comments on Fake News Inquiry interim report on disinformation
5 Medi 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - International Journal of Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed for International Journal of Communication
2 Medi 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
30 Awst 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal on journalism
13 Awst 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Reviewed grant for £2.1m
9 Awst 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - ESRC reviewer for for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Reviewed grant for £800k
9 Awst 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Frontiers in Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
Frontiers in Communication publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research in areas including Political, Health, and Science and Environmental Communication. Led by an outstanding Editorial Board of international experts, this multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, policy makers and the public worldwide.
1 Awst 2018 →
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report.
Cited in DCMS. 2018. Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report. 24 July. Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, House of Commons 363.
30 Gorff 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Ymgynghoriad (Ymgynghorydd) - Body & Society (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed article on human enhancement
26 Gorff 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism Practice (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed article on fake news
26 Gorff 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Has our democracy become the wild west?
I was invited to attend this event - which was attended by approx. 45 people, including Amber Rudd MP, mainstream journalists, law lords, regulators and NGOs. I advanced its agenda and discussion with a critical question on what Theresa May, the cabinet and UK intelligence agencies knew during the Brexit campaign about dark money and dark data being used by the Leave campaign. The event concluded that our democracy was under grave attack by dark money, dark data and deception, and that urgent reform was needed of our Electoral Law.
17 Gorff 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o sefydliad ymchwil allanol (Cyfranogwr) - Facebook’s Data Analytics and Problems for Democracy: Fake News, Dark Ads and a Disinformation Media Ecosystem
Invited presentation to CRISP (Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy) 2-day workshop on New Lines of Insight: Big Data and the Analytically Driven Organization. Stirling, Scotland, UK
4 Meh 2018
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Annals of International Communication Association (Cyfnodolyn)
3 Mai 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal for Routledge on fake news
1 Mai 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journal of International Affairs (Cyfnodolyn)
20 Ebr 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - International Journal of Press/politics (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed journal article
6 Ebr 2018
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Impartiality, Accuracy & Truthfulness in a Fake News Era: issues for public accountability of the judiciary
Invited presentation to British Academy conference
8 Maw 2018 – 9 Maw 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Interviewed for article evaluating fake news research
1 Maw 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Ymgynghoriad (Ymgynghorydd) - Opinion Forming in the Digital Age: Fake News, Echo Chambers and Populism - Key Themes, Concerns & Recommendations for European Research and Innovation
Invited to co-produce a white paper to shape the European Commission’s (EC) research agenda on the Internet's Impact on Echo Chambers, Fake News and Populism. This will assist the EC to define a future work programme of research within the H2020 framework and FP9. hTrough regular consultation across 2018, this generated a report on sociotechnical implications of the Internet related to the impact of closed communities and misinformation and makes recommendations to address specific challenges.
Edited by Steve Taylor, Brian Pickering, Paul Grace, Michael Boniface -University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre, UK
1 Chwef 2018 – 25 Hyd 2018
Cysylltau:
- https://www.ngi.eu/download/opinion-forming-in-the-digital-age/?wpdmdl=26472&masterkey=5bd16b3695380
- oral evidence on user targeting to House of Commons Fake News Inquiry
By invitation, I presented oral evidence to House of Commons Fake News Inquiry on user targeting: For 1.5 hours, I answered questions on user targeting, misinformation and journalism (alongside 2 other expert academics).
The session is televised and available online.
23 Ion 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o Fusnes a Chymuned - Aelodaeth o grŵp neu banel cynghori/polisi cyhoeddus/llywodraeth (Cyfrannwr)
2017
- Journal of Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed journal article
1 Tach 2017 – 15 Tach 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal for Routledge - dataveillance
1 Hyd 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal for Routledge (Sociology): War on Terror
1 Hyd 2017
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed article for Journalism - Fake news
1 Medi 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal for Routledge on Immigration discourse
1 Medi 2017
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Digital Journalism (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed journal article for Digital Journalism
1 Meh 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Media and Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed article for Media & Communication on Digital Images
1 Meh 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)
Reviewed book proposal for Routledge - Journalism
1 Meh 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - DATA-PSST findings
Presented on DATA-PSST findings at Security Research Group, Aberystwyth University
1 Mai 2017
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - ESRC reviewer
For ESRC: Assessed grant application
1 Mai 2017
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - Fake News & Digital Advertising
Invited Speaker: House of Commons, London. Fake News & Digital Advertising. Branded Content Network (AHRC-funded). (Public Talk – approx. 30 people)
We presented on the fake news phenomenon as part of an invited panel.
It received media coverage from trade press.
25 Ebr 2017
Cysylltau:
- http://www.thebcma.info/branded-content-regulation-bcma-invited-to-uk-parliament-2/
- http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/04/26/branded-content-regulation-recommended-parliamentary-review-advertiser-pressure
- Written MPC submissions to UK Fake News Parliamentary Inquiry and wider public discourse
3 x 3000 words reports - Bakir and McStay (MPC), and Bakir et al
1 report for MECCSA
1 blog for PSA Political Insight
2 talks to COmmsCymru
1 Ebr 2017 – 29 Tach 2017
Cysylltau:
- http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/fake-news/written/71533.html
- http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/culture-media-and-sport-committee/fake-news/written/48101.html
- http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/culture-media-and-sport-committee/fake-news/written/48255.html
- https://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/blog/what-drives-fake-news
- http://www.meccsa.org.uk/news/three-d-issue-28-combatting-fake-news-analysis-of-submissions-to-the-fake-news-inquiry/
- https://www.slideshare.net/VianBakir/fake-news-talk-comms-cymru-2017/1
- Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
Editorial for Veillance & Transparancy
17 Maw 2017
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Golygydd gwadd) - International Journal of Press/politics (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed paper on soft power for International Journal of Press/Politics
1 Maw 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Veillance
Gillian Jein hosted the round table discussion which launched the interactive, generative exhibition, Veillance. The roundtable included project team members. Artist Ronan Devlin, Academics Prof. Vian Bakir and Prof. Andy McStay, Technician Carwyn Edwards.
24 Chwef 2017
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr) - Veillance
Generative Exhibition - White Box, Pontio
24 Chwef 2017 – 12 Maw 2017
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Aelod) - ESRC reviewer
Reviewed grant proposal for ESRC
7 Ion 2017
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o sefydliad ymchwil allanol (Cyfrannwr)
2016
- Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (Cyfnodolyn)
reviewed Who Sounds the Alarm? The Effects of Individual Cultural Orientation and Media Framing on Risk Amplification
17 Rhag 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism (Cyfnodolyn)
Framing Mass Surveillance: Analyzing New Zealand’s Media Coverage of the Early Snowden Files" has been submitted to Journalism
17 Rhag 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Quoted in al-Jazeera article: Mendhai, Shafik. 2016 "Snooping, data leaks and the threat to online privacy". AL-Jazeera English, December 1.
Interviewed for, and quoted in, al-Jazeera article on Snooping, data leaks and the threat to online privacy
1 Rhag 2016
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfwelai) - Media and Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
Revieed paper on Australian journalism and dataveillance post-Snowden
14 Tach 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Mass Communication and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviewed paper
4 Tach 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Politics (Cyfnodolyn)
23 Hyd 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants application - referee
Provided reference to British Academy for Emma Briant: ‘Iraq for the Iraqis - Coalition Propaganda and Iraqi Reconstruction 2003-2004’
12 Hyd 2016
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd) - From torture to de-radicalisation: towards public accountability of secret policies designed to prevent terrorism
I wrote a piece for Open Democracy about the problems with secret research that informs policy, drawing parallels between ERG22+ and the Bush era detention and interrogation programme. I also signed the open letter to the Guardian calling for the secret research base behind ERG22+ to be made public.
4 Hyd 2016
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - Mass Communication and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Awst 2016
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Media, War & Conflict (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Awst 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - External Examiner PhD viva; Heather Brooke
8 Meh 2016
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr) - Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 13 participants: academics and 3 end users (artist/designer, journalist, NGO)
Grant PI and lead organiser
20 Mai 2016
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Croesawu ymwelydd academaidd (Croesawydd) - Irish Journal of Sociology (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Mai 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 30 participants, some international (Japan, Germany, Estonia, Spain): 25 academics and 5 end users (artist, company, think tank, NGO, Information Commissioners Office)
Grant PI and conference lead organiser
31 Maw 2016
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Croesawu ymwelydd academaidd (Cadeirydd) - Veillant Media: the ‘Veillant Panoptic Assemblage’ and ‘Emotiveillance’
to Dept. of Computing and Engineering
24 Maw 2016
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Aelod) - International Journal of Cultural Studies (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Maw 2016
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Journalism Practice (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Maw 2016
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Reviewed funding applications
1 Maw 2016
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod) - Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Ion 2016 – 1 Ion 2017
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd gwadd)
2015
- Policy and Internet (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Rhag 2015
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Intelligence agencies, media, secrecy, propaganda and surveillance
1 Tach 2015
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Aelod) - Journal of Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Tach 2015
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Media, War & Conflict (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Tach 2015
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - 10th News Assembly: Panel on Journalism post-Snowden
Presented as part of a panel on Journalism post-Snowden to European Broadcast Union, Berlin. This 1 hour panel was televised, and has a potential audience of 1.2 bn. I wrote an accompanying blog piece on 3 things European heads of broadcasting need to know about journalism post-Snowden, which ahs received many views.
26 Hyd 2015 – 27 Hyd 2015
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfwelai) - DATA-PSST seminar 4 - Visible Mediations of Transparency: Changing Norms & Practices. Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing TransparencyArrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 33 participants, some international (Spain, the Netherlands): 25 academics and 8 end users (artists, NGOs, Information Commissioners Office)
Grant PI and lead organiser of conference
10 Medi 2015
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Croesawu ymwelydd academaidd (Cadeirydd) - Consultant for Univ.of Liverpool. Revalidation of MA Political Communication degree.
1 Medi 2015
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod) - Media and Communication (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Medi 2015
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - external consultant for CAGE
Arising from my work in intelligence agencies, the press, and politics, I act as external consultant for CAGE – a UK advocacy group for the rights of Bush-era torture-intelligence detainees in the War on Terror. To date this has involved consultation on: a) public and political engagement (eg formulating petitions, signing open letters); b) participating in focus group to provide knowledge of intelligence agencies’ media and PR strategies to counter negative press coverage and pressure from the security state (eg regarding CAGE’s public comments on ‘Jihadi John’ having been turned violent by MI5). I am the un-named academic in the Emwazi External Review document (2015) c) advising on reports and research that informs critique of public policy regarding Prevent and Channel ( am named as a reviewer in The Science of Pre-Crime (2016).) Cage contacted me to explain that they needed independent academic evaluation of a report they had written on the secret research base underpinning Channel’s ERG22+ (extremist risk guidelines). I evaluated their report, and associated academic articles on which it was based, and wrote a piece for Open Democracy about the problems with secret research that informs policy, drawing parallels with the Bush era detention and interrogation programme. I also signed the open letter to the Guardian calling for the secret research base to be made public.
1 Awst 2015 – 1 Rhag 2016
Cysylltau:
- http://cage.ngo/publication/the-science-of-pre-crime/
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/29/anti-radicalisation-strategy-lacks-evidence-base-in-science
- Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 44 participants: 35 academics, 8 end users (journalism, documentary-making, NGOs, Information Commissioners Office, ethical hacking)
PI of grant and lead conference organiser
8 Gorff 2015
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Croesawu ymwelydd academaidd (Cadeirydd) - Delivered policy report on Public Feeling on Privacy, Security and Surveillance
I lead the writing of this docuemnt, along with Andrew McStay and colleagues from Cardiff University
1 Meh 2015 – 1 Tach 2015
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o Fusnes a Chymuned - Ymgynghoriaeth (mewn da) (Cynghorydd) - External Examiner BA Journalism
1 Meh 2015 – 1 Meh 2020
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o sefydliad ymchwil allanol (Aelod) - Information Rights research network
By invitation, I joined the newly-established Information Rights research network coordinated by The Policy Delivery department at the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The network is privy to consultations, research tenders and general advice-seeking from the ICO, and is also a forum for the exchange of ideas and the posting of relevant content. So far, I have contributed to formulating this network’s remit and scope, and (with Andrew MMcStay) interviewed a number of ICO staff concerning data issues around wearable media.
1 Meh 2015 – 1 Ion 2020
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Cyfraniad at waith pwyllgorau a gweithgorau cenedlaethol neu ryngwladol (Aelod) - International Journal of Press/politics (Cyfnodolyn)
Special Issue on Intelligence Agencies & Agenda-Building
1 Ebr 2015
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd gwadd) - Peer Review Panel
1 Ebr 2015 – 1 Ion 2025
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod) - Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust. This full-day seminar attracted 40 participants (several international eg Iceland, Belgium): 35 academics, 5 end users (politician, NGO, defence consultant, Information Commissioners Office, privacy-oriented technology company).
PI of grant and lead organiser of conference
24 Maw 2015
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Croesawu ymwelydd academaidd (Cadeirydd) - External Examining of Roy Revie’s PhD thesis (University of Bath): Controlling the “information environment”: Developments in U.S. military intelligence and communication in the age of Web 2.0
1 Maw 2015
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr) - Talk on CitizenFour
With Andrew McStay, at Caernarfon Arts Gallery we presented CitizenFour, Laura Poitras’ (2014) documentary on national security whistle-blower Edward Snowden. This involved a pre-screening talk on the national security whistle-blower and media representations, followed by Q&A afterwards.
10 Ion 2015
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfwelai) - Funded by ESRC Seminar Series grant (2014-16): DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust. This first full-day conference had 30 participants (several interantional eg Canada, USA): 27 academics (from a wide range of disciplines), 3 end users (digital designer, US satellite company, NGO).
PI and lead organiser of the day
6 Ion 2015
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Croesawu ymwelydd academaidd (Croesawydd)
2014
- 'Strategic political communication': the Bush administration torture-intelligence policy and the US Senate Intelligence Committee report
Analysis fo experts' response to Senate Intelligence Committe Report on CIA's Detention & Interrogation programme. Amalysis of strategic Political Communicaiton therein.
17 Rhag 2014
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - ICA (Cyhoeddwr)
multiple conference abstracts
1 Rhag 2014
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid) - Bangor University's network for Media & Persuasive Communication (MPC) hosted the Political Studies Association Media and Politics GroupAnnual Conference themed on Media, Persuasion and Human Rights.
Our 2-day conference was attended by 44 delegates from across academia internationally (Australasia, Europe) and the UK, encompassing diverse disciplines (Media, Communications, Politics, Sociology, Law, Business, Linguistics), and from all career stages. As well as explorations of human rights from the perspectives of security, privacy, freedom of speech, gender, race, class, labour and religion, we saw papers on propaganda, persuasion and spin across all media forms – from music to new media, and across a range of institutional sites beyond media, such as governments, legislatures and the judiciary.We were sponsored by BBC Montoring and Peter Lang. The James Thomas Memorial prizes (£100 cheque) for the best postgraduate paper was awarded to Mr Khin-Wee Chen (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) for his paper on Malaysian Kangkung Politics: harvesting Internet visual memes for rhetorical acts. Two travel bursaries (£100 each) were awarded to delegates for the best abstract from a postgraduate student:Ruth Garland (LSE) for Beyond the Narrative of Political Spin: an empirical analysis of the workings and purposes of UK government media relations; and Mark Shaw (Durham University) for Discourses on European integration and Institutions in the UK press: political entrepreneurialism at work. The conference organising team were: Dr Vian Bakir (SCSM), Dr Martina Feilzer (Social Sciences), Dyfrig Jones (SCSM), Dr. Yvonne McDermott (Law), Dr. Andrew McStay (SCSM) and Dr Kate Taylor Jones (SCSM).
10 Tach 2014 – 11 Tach 2014
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Croesawu ymwelydd academaidd (Croesawydd) - External Examining of Mark Pope’s PhD thesis (Royal Holloway University): Risk-cosmopolitanism:
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1 Tach 2014
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr) - International Journal of Press/politics (Cyfnodolyn)
peer reviewed multiple articles
1 Meh 2014 – 1 Chwef 2015
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
2013
- Media, War & Conflict (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Ion 2013 – 1 Ion 2017
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Mediterranean e-journal of Communication and Media. (Cyfnodolyn)
1 Ion 2013 – 1 Ion 2017
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)
Projectau
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01/07/2020 – 14/09/2021 (Wedi gorffen)
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DATA - PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements
01/12/2014 – 19/12/2017 (Wedi gorffen)
Disgrifiad
Our 2-year Seminar Series will explore, from multi-disciplinary/end user perspectives, how different aspects of transparency (whether voluntarily entered into, or state/commercially/peer-imposed) affect questions of privacy, security, sur/sous/veillance and trust. These areas have been chosen, as transparency violates privacy; is argued as necessary for security; indiscriminately mass surveills; and both demands and compromises trust.
To explore these topics, we will draw on perspectives from Journalism, Media, Sociology, Criminology, Law, Politics, International Relations, Intelligence, Business, History, Computer Science and Philosophy, and on end users from media, journalism, law, governing bodies, regulators, NGOs, business and security.
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