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

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

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

Symposium Magazine: When Does Digital Activism Pack a Punch?

We are starting to disseminate some of the findings from the USIP-supported Digital Activism Research Project.  One[...]

Topics Digital Activism

When Does Digital Activism Pack a Punch?

Symposium Magazine...

Topics Digital Activism Social Media Social Movements

Interview for the Project on Middle East Political Science

Topics Arab Spring

If Your Government Fails, Can You Create a New One With Your Phone?

How citizens are using technology to fill in for weak states.By Philip N. Howard Myanmar is[...]

Topics Governance

Democracy’s First Wave? Book Talk at GWU

Spoke with my collaborator Muzammil Hussain at GWU. Philip Howard and Muzammil Hussain discuss their recent[...]

Topics Arab Spring

Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter

How regimes take control of official media channels and push activists onto the Internet.By Philip N.[...]

Topics Governance Social Media

Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Book Launch at the National Democracy Institute

Thank you to the colleagues, students, journalists, policy professionals and interested members of the public who[...]

Topics Arab Spring Social Media

Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Interview

Muzammil Hussain was interviewed by Heath Brown for the New Books in Political Science podcast....

Topics Arab Spring

Debate flares on ‘Twitter revolutions,’ Arab Spring

Amid a fierce debate in academic circles, an upcoming book argues that social media and new[...]

Topics Arab Spring Social Media

Huffington Post: The Dictator’s Dead Pool for 2013: Will China’s Investments Pay Off in Political Clout?

(This originally appeared as “The Dictator’s Dead Pool for 2013” on the Huffington Post.) The world[...]