#HashtagActivismMatters: Some experts see online-to-IRL change in police protests

Contributed to a Washington Post story on how hashtag activism can translate to policy change:...

Topics Social Media Social Movements

After Ferguson: Is ‘Hashtag Activism’ Spurring Policy Changes?

Contributed to NBC news story on role of hashtags in protest within the US post-Ferguson....

Topics Social Media Social Movements

TechPresident: Bad News Bots

...form of organizational communication. The time may come when citizens will be able to distinguish between[...]

Hungary’s Crackdown on the Press

BUDAPEST — The European Union faces a challenging conundrum. While Hungary has embarked on building Europe’s[...]

A Dozen Sentances That Should Appear In Your (Academic) Job Application Letter

One of my mentoring memos was reproduced on the Inside Higher Ed website....

Topics Teaching Resources

Hamas and Israel Step up Cyber Battle for Hearts and Minds

Contributed to BBC story on the use of social media for propaganda war....

Topics Social Media

The Relationship between Media and Politics in the Twitter Age

Interviewed for the Italian news magazine Fromiche about social media and political change....

Topics Social Media

Caged Cairo: Where Journalism is a Crime

Contributed to “Caged in Cairo: where journalism is a crime”, a documentary on arrested journalists in[...]

Topics Arab Spring Journalism

Sudan Reporters Go Online to Challenge Crackdown on Press

Contributed to a story about Sudan and online journalism for Bloomberg....

Topics Social Media

Collaborating and Co-Authoring

One of my mentoring memos was reproduced on the Inside Higher Ed website....

Topics Teaching Resources

CEU On Point with Philip N. Howard

...discusses social media and its role in civic engagement and public policy. Howard is Director of[...]

Topics Civic Engagement Social Media

Let’s make candidates pledge not to use bots

Bots — chunks of computer code that generate messages and replicate themselves — have been infecting[...]

Topics Computational Propaganda Elections Governance

Islam for Journalists

...was the role of the Internet in the “Arab Spring”? Have citizen journalists had a role[...]

Topics Social Media Social Movements Social Theory

Inaugural Lecture at UW, “Research Adventures from Grad School to Present”

My department has started a new lecture series for faculty who get promoted to full professor,[...]

Topics Teaching Resources

‘Running battle’: How Google hopes to beat countries cracking down on Internet freedom

NBCNews.com recently used some quotable quotes from me and one of my colleagues at USIP Sheldon[...]

Topics Artificial Intelligence

Social media stew plays potent role in global digital activism

The Washington Times recently did a write up of work I’ve been doing with the Digital[...]

Topics Social Media