Associate Professor Emma L Briant

Associate Professor, News and Political Communication, Monash University

Dr Emma L Briant is Associate Professor of News and Political Communication at Monash University. She researches contemporary propaganda and information warfare, and its governance in an age of mass-surveillance. Dr Briant has two books, Bad News for Refugees, (Pluto Press, 2013, with Philo and Donald) and Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change (Manchester University Press, 2015). She is now finalising her third, Propaganda Machine and co-edited fourth, the Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry with Vian Bakir, Bangor University. She regularly contributes to major journalism outlets and her work has been central to several documentaries including Oscar-shortlisted ‘The Great Hack’.