Emma Briant became associate professor of news and political communication at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 2023.
15 Facts About Emma Briant
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Emma Briant graduated from Coventry University in 2003, before completing two master's degrees at Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Glasgow where she then was part of Glasgow Media Group.
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Emma Briant achieved a doctorate from the University of Glasgow in sociology in 2011.
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Emma Briant then authored her first book, Bad News for Refugees, with Greg Philo and Pauline Donald, which examined false and misleading media narratives of migration and refugees as well as their impacts on migrants and their communities in the build up to the European refugee crisis.
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Emma Briant 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.
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Emma Briant submitted her research to inquiries and published research on the role of Cambridge Analytica and Leave.
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In 2015, while lecturer in journalism studies at University of Sheffield, Emma Briant published her second book, Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, based on her doctoral thesis.
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Emma Briant continues to publish both on language and definitions of propaganda; strategy and tactics in influence operations; ethics of data use and surveillance in the context of political campaigns, international security and conflicts.
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Emma Briant sits on the advisory board of campaign group Clean up the Internet.
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Emma Briant is co-founder of Women in Disinformation, a network of women researchers.
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Emma Briant began running a YouTube show in 2021 called Afternoon Tea and Truth Biscuits.
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Emma Briant had spent years researching and interviewing the parent firm SCL Group as part of her research for her book Propaganda and Counter-terrorism and had then begun researching how their methodology had been used in political campaigns including by subsidiary firm Cambridge Analytica.
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Emma Briant was requested to give testimony and evidence regarding the firms' data misuse and disinformation to multiple inquiries including the UK Parliament Digital Culture Media and Sport Select Committee's Inquiry into Fake News and the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Emma Briant contributed to the 2019 Oscar-shortlisted film on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 United States elections, The Great Hack.
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In 2021 Emma Briant was interviewed for the documentary film series Schattenwelten.