Prezi – Collective Action in a Digital Era
Here is my Prezi on “Collective Action in a Digital Era“.
Phil Howard
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Courses / Presentations / Teaching Presentations
Academic Articles / Publications
Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slactivism Hypothesis: Lessons from Mexico’s “El Bronco”
Does social media use have a positive or negative impact on civic engagement? The cynical “slacktivism hypothesis” holds that if citizens use social media for political conversation, those conversations will be fleeting and vapid. Most attempts to answer this question involve public opinion data from the United States, so we […]
Commentary Essays / In The News / Reuters
Reuters: Facebook and Twitter’s real sin goes beyond spreading fake news
(This originally appeared as Facebook and Twitter’s real sin goes beyond spreading fake news.) Social media companies are taking heat for influencing the outcomes of the U.S. presidential election and Brexit referendum by allowing fake news, misinformation campaigns and hate speech to spread. But Facebook and Twitter’s real sin was […]
In The News / News Feature
Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say
Our research was featured in this New York Times article on the U.S. Election and bots. SAN FRANCISCO — An automated army of pro-Donald J. Trump chatbots overwhelmed similar programs supporting Hillary Clinton five to one in the days leading up to the presidential election, according to a report published […]
