Phil Howard INFORMATION · TECHNOLOGY · SOCIETY

Books

Phil Howard writes about information politics and international affairs, and he is the author of eight books, including The Managed CitizenPax Technica, and i. He has won multiple “best book” awards, and his research and commentary writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and many international media outlets. Foreign Policy magazine named him a “Global Thinker” for 2018 and the National Democratic Institute awarded him their “Democracy Prize” for pioneering the social science of fake news. His latest book is Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives. He blogs at www.philhoward.org and tweets from @pnhoward.

Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Read more

Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up

Read more

State Power 2.0

Read more

Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media & the Arab Spring

Read more

Castells and the Media

Read more

The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Read more

The Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics

Read more

New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen

Read more

Society Online: The Internet In Context

Read more

Book Chapters

Democratic Futures and the Internet of Things: How Information Infrastructure Will Become a Political Constitution

Constitutions are collections of codified traditions and conventions that provide structure for political life. Good constitutions[...]

Read more

Computational Propaganda in Europe, the U.S., and China

Book Chapter in Drums: Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation, And Smears Evolving from these religious origins, traditional[...]

Read more

Islam for Journalists

Just contributed to the Islam for Journalists e-book project with a chapter called “Digital Islam”.  The crisp[...]

Read more

Explore Themes

Democracy
Technology and Society
Public Policy
Research Methods
International Affairs