Professor Vian Bakir

Professor in Journalism and Political Communications

v.bakir@bangor.ac.uk

0000-0002-6828-8384

Professor Vian Bakir

Gwelwch proffil Professor Vian Bakir ar Bortal Ymchwil Bangor

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)

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
  • Dissertation in Politics
  • MA Dissertation in Sociology
  • MSc Dissertation in International Media Management

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)

  • Gehad Ibrahim. PhD. Journalistic Documentary in Post-Truth Dictatorships
  • Mashavu Mohamed. PhD. Social media and audiences in Zanzibar

I research the interplay between journalism and political and risk communication across 4 areas:

  • Disinformation, misinformation, propaganda
  • Emotional AI, profiling, surveillance, sousveillance
  • Issues of trust, accuracy and credibility in journalism;
  • The security state and public accountability.

Keywords

Emotional AI, strategic political communication, journalism, civil society, surveillance, sousveillance, social resistance,  trust,  risk communication, propaganda, persuasion, misinformation, disinformation

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 interdisciplinary scholar, I have won awards from diverse funding bodies e.g. AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, Innovate UK, Arts Councils. A list of my funded projects are at: 0000-0002-6828-8384

Current grants comprise:

2023-2025: £364,000 FEC. Automated Empathy – Globalising International Standards (AEGIS): Japan and Ethically Aligned Regions. UKRI Technologies Mission Fund - Impact Accelerator. (PI Andrew McStay, Co-Is Vian Bakir, Phoebi Li (Univ of Sussex), Ben Bland (Chair of IEEE working group), Alexander Laffer Univ. of Winchester)

2023- . £38m. Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) – Contribution to Sociology & Science and Technology Pathway (in the “Society and Wellbeing” cluster). 

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.

I am interested in supervising students in a wide range of areas including contemporary political communication, digital journalism, disinformation, deception, surveillance, sousveillance, discourse, accountability and power.

2024

2023

2022

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

2019

2018

2017

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

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2024

2023

  • BBC/Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2023 on AI

    I participated as a expert in lecture 3 - in a 10 minute disinformation and AI section for The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures on The Truth about AI, in conversation with University of Oxford's Prof. Mike Woolridge. This was livecast with a studio audience of teenagers and watched by their parents in and production team in adjoining rooms. It was broadcasted on BBC4 on 28th December (8pm), and is freely available on iplayer for UK audiences. For international audiences, this is freely available on The Royal Institution's Youtube channel (which has 1.56M subscribers).

    With 2024 dubbed the year of elections worldwide, I was asked to reflect on what I saw as the key issue with disinformation, AI and politics. I also advised the production team on wider disinformation and deepfake issues presented in the lecture. I then participated in online chats with UK-wide Schools as part of the I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here - follow on expert interactions with schools and children across the country, across jan 2024 where I answered questions about AI and about being an expert. (The aim is to inspire children to want to become a scientist, and to improve public knowledge of science.)

    15 Tach 2023 – 20 Ion 2024

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr)
  • International Journal of Communication (Cyfnodolyn)

    peer review

    14 Tach 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
  • Ofcom Making Sense of Media Working Group

    Online meeting to discuss WG 2023-24 agenda and latest relevant research.

    1 Tach 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Cyfraniad at waith pwyllgorau a gweithgorau cenedlaethol neu ryngwladol (Aelod)
  • Digital Journalism (Cyfnodolyn)

    Launched in 2013, Digital Journalism is the premier outlet for advancing international research into digital journalism studies (DJS). The journal aims to maintain its position as a leader of cutting-edge journalism research, providing a critical forum to advance scholarship that intersects with numerous disciplines.

    31 Hyd 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
  • EU MCFA Fellowships reviewer

    Reviewer and Rapporteur of multiple proposals

    14 Hyd 2023 – 1 Rhag 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr)
  • ESRC - Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Social Science Program with US Department of Defense

    Feedback on, and review of, multiple White Papers and proposals

    1 Hyd 2023 – 28 Chwef 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd)
  • Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)

    Reviewed journal paper for Big Data & Society.

    Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies.

    22 Medi 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
  • Peer reviewer for Dutch Research Council,

    Reviewed for their NWO Talent Programme

    18 Medi 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr)
  • Peer reviewer for UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

    18 Medi 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr)
  • Big Data and Society (Cyfnodolyn)

    Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies.

    5 Meh 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
  • Making Sense of Media Working Group

    Making Sense of Media is Ofcom’s programme of work to help improve the online skills, knowledge and understanding of UK adults and children.

    We do this by sharing our own insights, based on evidence and research, and by galvanising the wider media literacy community to progress and pilot activities and initiatives in support. This work builds on Ofcom’s substantial body of research into the UK’s media habits, attitudes and critical understanding.

    Working Group meeting attended 24th May 2023

    24 Mai 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Cyfraniad at waith pwyllgorau a gweithgorau cenedlaethol neu ryngwladol (Cyfrannwr)
  • 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 Academaidd (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)

    New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.

    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)

    Social Media + Society is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present and future.

    23 Ion 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
  • International Journal of Communication (Cyfnodolyn)

    The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world.

    The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.

    5 Ion 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)

2022

2021

2020

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:

    Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr)
  • 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)
  • Citation in EU Commissioned study: Disinformation and propaganda – impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its Member States

    The study ( Disinformation and propaganda – impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its Member States) was commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs. It assesses the impact of disinformation and strategic political propaganda disseminated through social media sites.

    The report references McStay and Bakir's work several times, and discusses it in the text, citing the definition of fake news proposed by McStay and Bakir in 2018.

    28 Chwef 2019

    Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr)
  • 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

2017

2016

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)
  • Visible Mediations of Transparency: Changing Norms & Practices, DATA-PSST! Seminar, King's College London, September 2015

    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: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd (Trefnydd)
  • 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:

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gwaith ar baneli cynghori ar gyfer ymgysylltu cymdeithasol, cymunedol a diwylliannol (Cyfwelai)
  • DATA-PSST seminar 3

    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: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd (Trefnydd)
  • 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)
  • Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy and Privacy, DATAPSST Seminar, University of Sheffield, March 2015

    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: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd (Siaradwr)
  • 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)
  • DATA-PSST - Transparency Today

    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: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd (Trefnydd)

2014

2013

  • Governing Philosophies in Technology Policy: Permissionless Innovation vs. the Precau-tionary Principle

    01/07/2020 – 01/08/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

  • 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.

    Cysylltau: