by Phil Howard | Dec 16, 2017 | New York Times, Review
Ideas from the Pax Technica used in this review essay by Roger Cohen in the New York Times: One stab at defining such an invisible force that I find persuasive has been offered by Philip Howard, a professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University. He has coined the...
by Phil Howard | Oct 28, 2017 | Interviewed For News Stories, Podcast
John Naughton talks to Philip Howard of the Oxford Internet Institute about whether the digital revolution has been good or bad for democracy. Will the Internet of Things usher in an era of universal peace or universal surveillance? What happened to the hopes of tech...
by Phil Howard | May 31, 2016 | Interviewed For News Stories, Learn More
Helped with a story on the Atlantic about Hillary Clinton’s response to online trolling. “A lot of digital campaign strategy is experimental and run for fear of losing,” Phil Howard, a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute said. “No one wants to be the team...
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 | Feb 9, 2016 | Interviewed For News Stories, Podcast
Here is the podcast of a session I did with CBC The Spark.