How Politicians Use Bots to Manipulate the Public
The CBC radio show Spark did an episode about the political bots project. Phil Howard studies political bots — social media[...]
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The CBC radio show Spark did an episode about the political bots project....
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Inside Higher Ed: A Dozen Slides for Your Job, Conference or Research Talk
One of my mentoring memos was reproduced on the Inside Higher Ed website....
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How the EU could build a volunteer force to help refugees
Despite the complexity of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Hungary, the country’s government is trying a[...]
Read moreVideo: Talk at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Video of a talk given at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy in[...]
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Twitter Needs a “Terms of Sharing”
Recently, some colleagues (wonderful team of @MCForelle, @saiphchen, @andresmh) and I came together to study the[...]
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Venezuela ruling party games Twitter for political gain
...Twitter has to eliminate them one by one. At one point, Maduro complained that Twitter had[...]
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The internet of things – Tech Weekly podcast
The Internet of Things is poised to change democracy itself
...their data. In researching my new book on the IOT, I spent a lot of time[...]
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More than 26 million people have changed their Facebook picture to a rainbow flag. Here’s why that matters.
Contributed to a Washington Post story on what impact changing Facebook profile photos does, and does not, have....
Read moreTalk at Data & Society in New York
...the think tank Data & Society in New York. Databites are Data & Society’s weekly lunch[...]
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How big is the Internet of Things and how big will it get?
...be an interesting exercise to count all the devices that were connected to the Internet. Completing[...]
Read moreWhy the Internet Should Be a Public Resource
...public resource that donates data flows, processing time, and bandwidth to non-profits, churches, civic groups, public[...]
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Millennials and the Age of Tumblr Activism
Contributed to a story in New York Times about how Tumblr can draw young people into[...]
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