Reviews
New York Times
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...
The Internet of Things Heralds the Dawning of Pax Technica
An extensive opinion essay on the pax technica by John Thornhill in FT: Is this internet of things going to set us free or lock us up? That question is the subtitle of a book called Pax Technica by Philip Howard, a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. It was...
Journal of Communication
Rossini, Patricia. Review of Pax Technica by Philip N. Howard. Journal of Communication 67(3). (2017): E4-5. DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12303. What are the political, social, and economic consequences of the ever-growing number of devices connected to the Internet—from...
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Donica, John. Review of Pax Technica by Philip N. Howard. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2017): 32(2), pp. 455–457, DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqx019. Perhaps Howard’s prescriptions for what we can do to keep the Internet of Things from locking us up are a bit too...
Contemporary Sociology
Petre, Caitlin. Review of Pax Technica by Philip N. Howard. Contemporary Sociology 46(1). (2017): 84-85, DOI: 10.1177/0094306116681813ff. Over the past quarter-century, mobile phones, tablets, personal computers, and other networked digital devices have...
Communication and the Public Interest
Lingel, Jessa. Review of Pax Technica by Philip N. Howard. Communication and the Public. (2016): 1(1), pp. 131-134, DOI: 10.1177/2057047315617766: Pax Technica operates at the convergence of Phil Howard’s longstanding interests in technology and governance, through...
Guardian: The Greatest Mass Surveillance Infrastructure Ever?
This review essay appeared originally in July on The Guardian website and is by Julia Powles. The subject of this book — the emerging “internet of things” — could not be more timely and important; and its central premise — that this new stage in the evolution of the...
Financial Times
This essay appeared originally in May on the Financial Times website and is by Felix Marton. The subject of this book — the emerging “internet of things” — could not be more timely and important; and its central premise — that this new stage in the evolution of the...
Prospect Magazine
Bucking the recent trend towards digital doomsaying, Philip Howard’s new book takes a cautiously optimistic look at the internet’s latest evolution. As we move towards a world where our smart devices know more about our daily lives than our closest friends, Howard argues that this will usher in a new era of political stability.
Medium: How Will the Internet of Things Change Our Bodies, Minds, and Culture?
This essay appeared originally on Medium and is by Julia Evanczuk. On Tuesday, April 21, the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt hosted a brown bag lunch with Dr. Philip Howard, whose credentials include faculty appointments at Central...