Emma Briant

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Emma Briant
Born1979 (age 41–42)
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Occupation
  • Academic
  • Lecturer
  • Writer
  • Author
Academic background
Education
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Thesis‘Special Relationships’ and the Negotiation of the Propaganda ‘War on Terror’ (2011)
Doctoral advisor and
Academic work
DisciplinePropaganda studies, political science, political journalism, Disinformation, Surveillance
Institutions
Main interestsPropaganda, Surveillance, Information Warfare, Human Rights, Security
Notable worksThe Great Hack
Websitewwww.emma-briant.co.uk wwww.propagandamachine.tech

Emma L. Briant (born 1979) is a British scholar and academic researcher on media, contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare who was involved in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.[1] She is an Associate Researcher at Bard College[2] and teaches in the School of Communication at American University.[3]

Education[]

Dr Briant graduated from Coventry University in 2003, before completing two Masters degrees at Glasgow Caledonian University, and University of Glasgow where she then achieved her doctorate in 2011. Dr Briant's doctoral thesis examined the development of military and intelligence propaganda during the 'War on Terror' as militaries adapted to changing technology.[4]

Media, Political Propaganda and Human Rights[]

While at Glasgow Media Group she also authored her first book Bad News for Refugees with and Pauline Donald.[5] She continued to research media and disinformation on human rights issues, and in particular false representation of asylum and refugees in the UK media and political rhetoric in the lead up to Brexit.[6]

Propaganda, International Security and Changing Technology[]

In 2015, while Lecturer in Journalism Studies at University of Sheffield, Dr Briant published her second book 'Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change,'[7] based on her doctoral thesis. She continues to publish both on propaganda, ethics of data use and surveillance[8] in the context of political campaigns, international security and conflicts.

In 2018, while she was a Senior Lecturer at University of Essex, Dr Briant was centrally involved in revealing a global disinformation and data scandal involving Facebook, the campaign firm Cambridge Analytica, that worked for Donald Trump and on the Brexit campaigns, and its defense contractor parent firm SCL Group.[9] Dr Briant was requested to give testimony and evidence regarding the firms, data misuse and disinformation to multiple inquiries[10] including the UK Parliament Digital Culture Media and Sport Select Committee's Inquiry into Fake News[11] and the US Senate Judiciary Committee.[12] Her work contributed to Oscar-shortlisted film The Great Hack for which she was Senior Researcher. She has also written op-eds and journalistic articles for outlets including the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project,[13][14] Open Democracy,[15][16][17] The Conversation,[18] the Ottawa Citizen[19] and Guardian.[20]

Dr Briant sits on the advisory board of Campaign to Clean up the Internet [21]

Dr Briant is cofounder of 'Women in Disinformation' a network of women researchers.[22]

Major Works[]

  • Emma Briant Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, (Manchester University Press, 2015).[23]
  • Emma Briant, Greg Philo and Nick Watson Bad News for Disabled People (Inclusion London, 2011)[24]
  • Greg Philo, Emma Briant, Pauline Donald, Bad News for Refugees (Pluto Press, 2013),[25]
  • Emma Briant Propaganda Machine: Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry. (Bloomsbury, 2020).[26][27][28]

References[]

  1. ^ http://emma-briant.co.uk/
  2. ^ Relations, Bard Public. "Emma L. Briant Calls for Tougher Action against Disinformation and Propaganda in Response to Rapidly Expanding Digital Influence Industry". www.bard.edu. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Adjunct Professorial Lecturer".
  4. ^ http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2840/1/2011briantphd.pdf
  5. ^ "Emma L. Briant | School of Media & Public Affairs (SMPA) | The George Washington University". smpa.gwu.edu. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Dr. Emma Briant publishes new piece in United Nations Associations' (UNA-UK) New World".
  7. ^ "Manchester University Press - Propaganda and counter-terrorism".
  8. ^ Briant, Emma L. (2017). Rights, Media and Mass-surveillance in a Digital Age, in The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315619835-16. ISBN 9781315619835.
  9. ^ Briant, Emma L. (20 April 2018). "I've seen inside the modern propaganda machine. And it's dark in there | Emma Briant". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  10. ^ Briant, Emma L. (20 April 2018). "I've seen inside the modern propaganda machine. And it's dark in there | Emma Briant". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Research on Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica strategy published - News from Parliament".
  12. ^ "Cambridge Analytica and the Future of Data Privacy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary".
  13. ^ Briant, Emma. "OPINION: Governments Have Failed to Learn from the Cambridge Analytica Scandal". www.occrp.org. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  14. ^ Citizen, David Pugliese, Ottawa. "Canadian military spent more than $1 million on controversial propaganda training linked to Cambridge Analytica parent firm | Saltwire". www.saltwire.com. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  15. ^ "As Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections shut down, SCL Group's defence work needs real scrutiny". openDemocracy. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  16. ^ Nast, Condé (18 November 2018). "New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica's Role in Brexit". The New Yorker. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  17. ^ Timmons, Heather. "Read the emails linking Steve Bannon to Brexit". Quartz. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  18. ^ Briant, Emma L. "Cambridge Analytica and SCL – how I peered inside the propaganda machine". The Conversation. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  19. ^ Briant, Emma L. (11 December 2020). "Government efforts to counter propaganda risk undermining public trust". Ottawa Citizen.
  20. ^ Briant, Emma L. (20 April 2018). "I've seen inside the modern propaganda machine. And it's dark in there | Emma Briant". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  21. ^ https://www.cleanuptheinternet.org.uk/
  22. ^ https://twitter.com/womenindisinfo
  23. ^ "OCEAN: COME HACKERARE LA DEMOCRAZIA". www.idiavoli.com. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  24. ^ "Bad News for Disabled People" (PDF). Glasgow University. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  25. ^ "The battle over the words used to describe migrants". BBC News. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  26. ^ "The Weaponization of Data: Cambridge Analytica, Information Warfare & the 2016 Election of Trump". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  27. ^ "Propaganda Machine: The Military Roots of Cambridge Analytica's Psychological Manipulation of Voters". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  28. ^ "New book to reveal Oxford academic's involvement with Cambridge Analytica". Varsity Online. Retrieved 29 June 2021.

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