by Phil Howard | Aug 5, 2015 | Interviewed For News Stories, News
Contributed to an Associated Press story on the use of bots by Venezuelan political figures. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval ratings may be languishing below 30 percent, but on Twitter he’s as popular as Pope Francis — or so it would...
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 | Jul 1, 2015 | Interviewed For News Stories, News, Washington Post
Contributed to a Washington Post story on what impact changing Facebook profile photos does, and does not, have. “Profile picture campaigns are effective in showing the friends and family in your social network that you have some affinity for a political candidate or...
by Phil Howard | Jun 13, 2015 | Academic Writing, Learn More
This appeared in two parts for the Brookings Institution’s TechTank in June 2015. Part 1 is called How big is the Internet of Things and how big will it get? and Part 2 is Sketching out the IoT Trendline. New information technologies have transformed...
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...
