by Phil Howard | Apr 28, 2015 | Review
This essay appeared originally in April in Quartz and is by Anya Schiffrin. “The US Ambassador no longer knows who to call,” often says Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton’s former advisor for technology. Certainly, conventional wisdom—cemented by the Arab Spring...
by Phil Howard | Mar 24, 2015 | Academic Writing, Learn More
This eventually appeared as a response to the article by Ethan Zuckerman “New Media, New Civics?” published in Policy & Internet (2014: vol. 6, issue 2). Dissatisfaction with existing governments, a broad shift to “post-representative democracy” and the rise of...
by Phil Howard | Feb 6, 2015 | Commentaries, Learn More, Yale Press Blog
This originally appeared on the Yale Books blog. The responsibility of social and digital networks in combating terrorism has come under particular scrutiny since the Charlie Hebdo attacks of January 2015. Philip N. Howard, Pax Technica author and commentator on the...
by Phil Howard | Jan 15, 2015 | Commentaries, Learn More, Yale Press Blog
Phil Howard commented on CES for the Yale Books blog and argued for the advantages of treating the internet as a public resource. The excitement of this year’s CES—the enormous technology show and tell event that just ended in Las Vegas—was about the “internet of...
by Phil Howard | Dec 21, 2014 | Learn More, New York Times, News
Phil Howard contributed to a story in New York Times by Valeriya Safronova about how Tumblr can draw young people into contemporary activism. “Tumblr is kind of like a gateway drug for activism,” said Philip Howard, 44, the principal investigator at the Digital...
