Emma Briant
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Academic background | |
Education | |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Thesis | Special Relationships' and the Negotiation of the Propaganda 'War on Terror (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Greg Philo and Sarah Oates |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Propaganda studies, political science, political journalism, Disinformation, Surveillance |
Institutions | |
Main interests | Human Rights, Security |
Notable works | The Great Hack |
Website | www |
Emma L. Briant (born 1979) is a British scholar and academic researcher on media, contemporary
Education
Briant graduated from Coventry University in 2003, before completing two master's degrees at Glasgow Caledonian University, and University of Glasgow where she then was part of Glasgow Media Group, and she then achieved a doctorate from the University of Glasgow in Sociology 2011. Briant's doctoral thesis examined the development of military and intelligence propaganda in the US and UK during the "War on Terror" as militaries adapted to changing technology.[7]
Media, political propaganda and human rights
While at
Propaganda, international security and changing technology
In 2015, while lecturer in journalism studies at University of Sheffield, Briant published her second book, Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, based on her doctoral thesis. The book examines British and United States governments' attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a rapidly changing media environment. It discusses Anglo-American coordination and domestic struggles that brought in far-reaching changes to propaganda, largely in isolation from public debate.
Briant sits on the advisory board of campaign group Clean up the Internet[27]
Briant is co-founder of Women in Disinformation a network of women researchers.[28]
Briant began running a YouTube show in 2021 called Afternoon Tea and Truth Biscuits.[29]
The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
In 2018, while she was a senior lecturer at University of Essex, Briant was involved in revealing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, 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 defence contractor parent firm SCL Group.[11][non-primary source needed] Briant had spent years researching and interviewing the parent firm SCL Group as part of her research for her book Propaganda and Counter-terrorism[16] and had then begun researching how their methodology had been used in political campaigns including by subsidiary firm Cambridge Analytica.[11] Briant was requested to give testimony and evidence regarding the firms' data misuse and disinformation to multiple inquiries[11] including the UK Parliament Digital Culture Media and Sport Select Committee's Inquiry into Fake News[30] and the US Senate Judiciary Committee.[31] She contributed to the 2019 Oscar-shortlisted film on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 United States elections, The Great Hack.[citation needed] Briant also reported in Byline Times.[32] In 2021 Briant was interviewed for the documentary film series Schattenwelten.[33][unreliable source?]
Publications
- Emma Briant, Greg Philo and Nick Watson Bad News for Disabled People (Inclusion London, 2011)[34]
- Greg Philo, Emma Briant, Pauline Donald, Bad News for Refugees (Pluto Press, 2013),[35]
- Emma Briant Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, (Manchester University Press, 2015).[16]
- Emma Briant Propaganda Machine: Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry. (Bloomsbury, 2020).[36][37][38]
References
- ^ "Dr Emma L Briant – Maven of Persuasion – Disinformation – Propaganda". emma-briant.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Monash University: Emma Briant". www.Monash.edu.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Adjunct Professorial Lecturer".
- ^ "Dr @EmmaLBriant will be joining the @CambridgeJBS @CambridgeCFRA as an Associate to continue her research on propaganda, information warfare, and the actors who profit within the "influence operations" industry. Her research..." Twitter.com. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ "Emma L Briant Joins CMDS as Fellow | CMDS". cmds.ceu.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ Briant, Emma L. (2011). "'Special relationships' – The negotiation of an Anglo-American Propaganda 'War on Terror'" (PDF). Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ Briant, Emma L.; Philo, Greg; Watson, Nick (2011). "Bad News for Disabled People: How the newspapers are reporting disability" (PDF).
- ^ "Emma L. Briant | School of Media & Public Affairs (SMPA) | The George Washington University". smpa.gwu.edu. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ Group, Migration Research. "Dr. Emma Briant publishes new piece in United Nations Associations' (UNA-UK) New World". Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ "The battle over the words used to describe migrants". BBC News. 28 August 2015.
- ^ "BBC World News: Dr Emma Briant on Boris Johnson & 'Partygate'". YouTube.
- ^ "Leave.EU chief Andy Wigmore admits copying Trump Tactics". The Times.
- ^ "Emails reveal Arron Banks' links to Steve Bannon in quest for campaign cash". The Guardian. 17 November 2018.
- ^ a b c "Manchester University Press - Propaganda and counter-terrorism". Manchester University Press.
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- ISBN 9781315619835.
- ^ Briant, Emma. "OPINION: Governments Have Failed to Learn from the Cambridge Analytica Scandal". www.occrp.org. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ 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.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "As Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections shut down, SCL Group's defence work needs real scrutiny". openDemocracy. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica's Role in Brexit". The New Yorker. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ Timmons, Heather (18 November 2018). "Read the emails linking Steve Bannon to Brexit". Quartz. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ Briant, Emma L. (17 April 2018). "Cambridge Analytica and SCL – how I peered inside the propaganda machine". The Conversation. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ Briant, Emma L. (11 December 2020). "Government efforts to counter propaganda risk undermining public trust". Ottawa Citizen.
- ^ Briant, Emma L. (11 October 2021). "Briant: Canadian military's bungled propaganda campaigns should be a lesson across NATO". Ottawa Citizen.
- ^ "Campaign to Clean up the Internet". cleanuptheinternet.org.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Women of Influence (@womenindisinfo) / Twitter".
- ^ "Afternoon Tea & Truth Biscuits 1: Dr Emma Briant and Heidi Cuda - year in review". YouTube.
- ^ "Research on Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica strategy published - News from Parliament". Archived from the original on 11 October 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ "Cambridge Analytica and the Future of Data Privacy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". 16 May 2018.
- ^ Times, Byline (23 October 2020). "Emma Briant, Author at Byline Times". bylinetimes.com.
- ^ "Emma Briant". IMDb.
- ^ "Bad News for Disabled People" (PDF). Glasgow University. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "The battle over the words used to describe migrants". BBC News. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "The Weaponization of Data: Cambridge Analytica, Information Warfare & the 2016 Election of Trump". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "Propaganda Machine: The Military Roots of Cambridge Analytica's Psychological Manipulation of Voters". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "New book to reveal Oxford academic's involvement with Cambridge Analytica". Varsity Online. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
External links
- "Dr Emma L Briant – Maven of Persuasion – Disinformation – Propaganda". emma-briant.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- "Home". Propaganda Machine. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
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