by Phil Howard | May 16, 2016 | Commentaries, Learn More
This originally appeared as “These are the Droids You’re Looking For: Bots as a Tool For Journalism” by Samuel Woolley and Phil Howard in the May 2016 issue of Wired Magazine. DONALD TRUMP UNDERSTANDS minority communities. Just ask Pepe Luis Lopez, Francisco Palma,...
by Phil Howard | Apr 3, 2016 | Commentaries, Learn More
This appeared as “Idea to retire: A closed-platform Internet of Things” on the Brookings Institution’s TechTank blog. The Internet has gone through a major demographic transition: in 2015 year, the number of devices connected by the Internet...
by Phil Howard | Jul 1, 2015 | Commentaries, Learn More
This appeared as “Politics won’t know what hit it: The Internet of Things is poised to change democracy itself” in Politico Magazine. In the evolving conversation about the “Internet of Things” — the growth of networked everyday objects and the data...
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 10, 2014 | Commentaries, Learn More, TechPresident
This originally appeared in Tech President and was written with Sam Woolley It’s no secret that governments and political actors now make use of social robots or bots—automated scripts that produce content and mimic real users. Faux social media accounts now...
