Dr Emma L Briant is Associate Professor of News and Political Communication at Monash University. She is a leading researcher and expert on 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), and is finalizing her third, the Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry (co-edited with Vian Bakir) and a fourth, Propaganda Machine. She regularly contributes to major journalism outlets and her work has been central to several documentaries including Oscar-shortlisted ‘The Great Hack’.