Emma Briant

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 concerning data misuse and disinformation.[1] She is an Associate Researcher at Bard College[2] and teaches in the School of Communication at American University.[3]

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Emma Briant
Born1979 (age 41–42)
NationalityBritish
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 advisorGreg Philo (Sociologist) and Sarah Oates (Political Scientist)
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

Education

Dr Briant graduated from Coventry University in 2003, before completing two master's 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 in the US and UK 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 Greg Philo and Pauline Donald.[5] She continued to research media bias and disinformation on human rights issues, and in particular false representation of asylum and refugees in the UK media and political rhetoric and disinformation in the lead up to Brexit.[6] This research focus culminated in her submissions to inquiries revealing the role of Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 British Brexit Referendum.[7]

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,'[8] based on her doctoral thesis. She continues to publish both on propaganda, ethics of data use and surveillance[9] 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.[10] Dr 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[12] and the US Senate Judiciary Committee.[13] Her work contributed to Oscar-shortlisted film on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 US Election, 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,[14][15] Open Democracy,[16][17][18] The Conversation,[19] the Ottawa Citizen[20][21] and Guardian.[22]

Dr Briant sits on the advisory board of Campaign to Clean up the Internet [23]

Dr Briant is cofounder of 'Women in Disinformation' a network of women researchers.[24]

Major Works
  • Emma Briant Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, (Manchester University Press, 2015).[25]
  • Emma Briant, Greg Philo and Nick Watson Bad News for Disabled People (Inclusion London, 2011)[26]
  • Greg Philo, Emma Briant, Pauline Donald, Bad News for Refugees (Pluto Press, 2013),[27]
  • Emma Briant Propaganda Machine: Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry. (Bloomsbury, 2020).[28][29][30]

References
  1. "Dr Emma L Briant – Maven of Persuasion – Disinformation – Propaganda". emma-briant.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  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. Briant, Emma L. (2011). "'Special relationships' – The negotiation of an Anglo-American Propaganda 'War on Terror'" (PDF). Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  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. 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.
  8. "Manchester University Press - Propaganda and counter-terrorism".
  9. 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.
  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. 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.
  12. "Research on Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica strategy published - News from Parliament".
  13. "Cambridge Analytica and the Future of Data Privacy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary".
  14. Briant, Emma. "OPINION: Governments Have Failed to Learn from the Cambridge Analytica Scandal". www.occrp.org. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  15. 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.
  16. "As Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections shut down, SCL Group's defence work needs real scrutiny". openDemocracy. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  17. 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.
  18. Timmons, Heather. "Read the emails linking Steve Bannon to Brexit". Quartz. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  19. Briant, Emma L. "Cambridge Analytica and SCL – how I peered inside the propaganda machine". The Conversation. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  20. Briant, Emma L. (11 December 2020). "Government efforts to counter propaganda risk undermining public trust". Ottawa Citizen.
  21. Briant, Emma L. (11 October 2021). "Briant: Canadian military's bungled propaganda campaigns should be a lesson across NATO". Ottawa Citizen.
  22. 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.
  23. "Campaign to Clean up the Internet". cleanuptheinternet.org.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  24. "𝕎𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕀𝕟𝕗𝕝𝕦𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 (@womenindisinfo) / Twitter".
  25. "OCEAN: COME HACKERARE LA DEMOCRAZIA". www.idiavoli.com. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  26. "Bad News for Disabled People" (PDF). Glasgow University. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  27. "The battle over the words used to describe migrants". BBC News. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  28. "The Weaponization of Data: Cambridge Analytica, Information Warfare & the 2016 Election of Trump". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  29. "Propaganda Machine: The Military Roots of Cambridge Analytica's Psychological Manipulation of Voters". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  30. "New book to reveal Oxford academic's involvement with Cambridge Analytica". Varsity Online. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
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