The Atlantic: Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter The Atlantic:  Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter
What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring
Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring Democracy’s Fourth Wave?  Digital Media and the Arab Spring
Commentary and OpEds The Atlantic:  Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter

The Atlantic: Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter

(This originally appeared as “Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter” on The Atlantic.com)   Last March I was walking past Gezi Park with a Turkish friend at dusk. He had just joined me from prayers and I asked him what he thought about the brewing debate over [...]

Books Political Redlining and Issue Publics

Political Redlining and Issue Publics

Political Redlining and Issue Publics When Lippmann wrote that the news media could never effectively manage the exchange of information between political leaders and citizens, he probably did not imagine that campaign managers would use another institution – an open, digital market for political data – to structure this exchange. [...]

Academic Articles What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

It has been 15 years since the last wave of democratization. But as a region, North Africa and the Middle East were noticeably devoid of popular democracy movements—until the early months of 2011. Democratization movements had existed long before technologies like mobile phones and the Internet came to these countries. But [...]

Policy Papers Does Social Media Make a Difference in Election Campaigns?  Digital Dividends in Brazil’s 2010 National Elections

Does Social Media Make a Difference in Election Campaigns? Digital Dividends in Brazil’s 2010 National Elections

This working paper, done with the UW’s Jason Gilmore, is mirrored at the website of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement and the SSRN. Gilmore, Jason and Philip N. Howard.  “Does Social Media Make a Difference in Political Campaigns?  Digital Dividends in Brazil’s 2010 National Elections.” Center for Communication [...]

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Does Social Media Make a Difference in Election Campaigns?  Digital Dividends in Brazil’s 2010 National Elections
Policy Papers

Does Social Media Make a Difference in Election Campaigns? Digital Dividends in Brazil’s 2010 National Elections

This working paper, done with the UW’s Jason Gilmore, is mirrored at the website of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement and the SSRN. Gilmore, Jason and Philip N. Howard.  “Does Social Media Make a Difference in Political Campaigns?  Digital Dividends in Brazil’s 2010 National Elections.” Center for Communication [...]

Political Redlining and Issue Publics
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Political Redlining and Issue Publics

Political Redlining and Issue Publics When Lippmann wrote that the news media could never effectively manage the exchange of information between political leaders and citizens, he probably did not imagine that campaign managers would use another institution – an open, digital market for political data – to structure this exchange. [...]

Prezi – Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Book Talk Presentations for NDI, USIP, and GWU
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Prezi – Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Book Talk Presentations for NDI, USIP, and GWU

Thank you to the colleagues, students, journalists, policy professionals and interested members of the public who came to watch my coauthor Muzammil Hussain (@m_m_hussain) and I launch Democracy’s Fourth Wave?  Digital Media and the Arab Spring. For those who are interested, here is the Prezi that we used for several of [...]

Democracy’s Fourth Wave?  Book Launch Podcast and Videos
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Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Book Launch Podcast and Videos

Thank you to the colleagues, students, journalists, policy professionals and interested members of the public who came to watch my coauthor Muzammil Hussain (@m_m_hussain) launch Democracy’s Fourth Wave?  Digital Media and the Arab Spring.  For those who are interested, here is the Prezi that we used for several of the [...]

Are There Countries Whose Situations Worsened with the Arrival of the Internet?
Data / In The News / Other Public Writing

Are There Countries Whose Situations Worsened with the Arrival of the Internet?

(This post originally appeared on Freedom To Tinker, after @evgenymorozov tweeted that he would want help with a graph of data before he would believe that there were no countries where the situation worsened with the arrival of the internet. @evgenymorozov @ericschmidt there are no countries where tech diffusion rates high and [...]