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Vian Bakir
Researcher at Bangor University
Publications - 45
Citations - 1005
Vian Bakir is an academic researcher from Bangor University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Journalism. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 43 publications receiving 792 citations. Previous affiliations of Vian Bakir include University of New South Wales & University of South Wales.
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Fake News and The Economy of Emotions: Problems, causes, solutions
Vian Bakir,Andrew McStay +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the 2016 US presidential election campaign to identify problems with, causes of and solutions to the contemporary fake news phenomenon, and employed textual analysis to identify the causes of fake news.
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Media and risk: old and new research directions
TL;DR: In this paper, a macro-view of the field of media and risk is offered by examining four main routes of media-risk research: providing risk knowledge to inform citizens; modulating public acceptability of different risks; motivating the public to take responsibility for, and action regarding, risks; and providing imaginative schemata regarding voluntarily chosen risks.
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Policy Agenda Setting and Risk Communication Greenpeace, Shell, and Issues of Trust
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative case study approach was used to examine policy-oriented risk communication in the battle between Greenpeace and Shell over the disposal of the Brent Spar oil structure.
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Greenpeace v. Shell: media exploitation and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF)
TL;DR: This paper examined the usefulness of the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF) in understanding the media's role in risk communication and concluded that these critiques are more a consequence of how researchers have used SARF rather than a fault of the SARF itself.
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Organized Persuasive Communication: A new conceptual framework for research on public relations, propaganda and promotional culture
TL;DR: The role of persuasive communication in the exercise of power at national and global levels has been studied extensively by scholars of public relations, promotional culture and prop... as mentioned in this paper, and it has been extensively studied in the literature.