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Political Science
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2023

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Political Science

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50
Citations
16747
World Ranking
231
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Philip N. Howard is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, communication, political science and international relations, health, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Philip N. Howard has contributed to various peer-reviewed articles published in prominent venues such as:

  • Journal of Communication
  • Journalism
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • Journal of Information Technology & Politics

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Anything that Causes Chaos": The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT), 2020, Journal of Communication
  • Who is afraid of fake news? Modeling risk perceptions of misinformation in 142 countries, 2022, Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • What to expect when you're expecting robots: Futures, expectations, and pseudo-artificial general intelligence in UK news, 2020, Journalism
  • Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram, 2022, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
  • The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors, 2022, Journal of Communication

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Aleksi Knuutila
  • Lisa-Maria Neudert
  • Aliaksandr Herasimenka
  • Jonathan Bright
  • Mona Elswah

In addition to journal publications, Philip N. Howard has authored books published by Yale University Press. These include:

  • Lie Machines, 2020
  • Pax Technica, 2020

Best Publications

  • Democracy's Fourth Wave?: Digital Media and the Arab Spring

    Muzammil M. Hussain;Philip N. Howard

  • Days and Nights on the Internet The Impact of a Diffusing Technology

    Philip E. N. Howard;Lee Rainie;Steve Jones

  • The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam

    Philip N. Howard

  • Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation

    JS Brennen;FM Simon;PN Howard;RK Nielsen

  • HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials.

    Daniel I Swerdlow;David Preiss;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Michael Holmes

  • New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen

    Philip N. Howard

  • Network Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organization: New Media, New Organizations, New Methods

    Philip N. Howard

  • Opening Closed Regimes: What was the Role of Social Media during the Arab Spring?

    Philip Howard;Aiden Duffy;Deen Freelon;Muzammil M. Hussain

  • Use of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol gene score to distinguish patients with polygenic and monogenic familial hypercholesterolaemia: a case-control study

    Philippa J Talmud;Sonia Shah;Ros Whittall;Marta Futema

  • The Role of Digital Media

    Philip N. Howard;Muzammil M. Hussain

  • Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

    S Bradshaw;P Howard

  • Social Media and Political Change: Capacity, Constraint, and Consequence

    Philip N. Howard;Malcolm R. Parks

  • Bots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum

    Philip N. Howard;Bence Kollanyi

  • Automation, Algorithms, and Politics| Political Communication, Computational Propaganda, and Autonomous Agents — Introduction

    Samuel C. Woolley;Philip N. Howard

  • Algorithms, bots, and political communication in the US 2016 election: The challenge of automated political communication for election law and administration

    Philip N. Howard;Samuel Woolley;Ryan Calo

  • Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics

    Andrew Chadwick;Philip N. Howard

  • The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation

    Samantha Bradshaw;Philip N. Howard

  • The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Philip N. Howard

  • What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

    Muzammil M. Hussain;Philip N. Howard

  • When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks? Regime Responses to the Political Uses of Social Media

    Philip N. Howard;Sheetal D. Agarwal;Muzammil M. Hussain

  • Deep Democracy, Thin Citizenship: The Impact of Digital Media in Political Campaign Strategy

    Philip N. Howard

  • Computational propaganda worldwide: Executive summary

    SC Woolley;P Howard

  • The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018

    Philip N. Howard;Bharath Ganesh;Dimitra Liotsiou;John Kelly

  • Comparing Digital Divides: Internet Access and Social Inequality in Canada and the United States

    Philip N. Howard;Laura Busch;Penelope Sheets

  • Society Online: The Internet in Context

    Steve Jones;Philip N. Howard

  • Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo

    Gillian Bolsover;Philip Howard

  • Telecommunications Reform, Internet Use and Mobile Phone Adoption in the Developing World

    Philip N. Howard;Philip N. Howard;Nimah Mazaheri

  • Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela

    Michelle Forelle;Philip N. Howard;Andrés Monroy-Hernández;Saiph Savage

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

    Philip N. Howard

  • Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data: Moving Toward a More Critical Research Agenda

    Gillian Bolsover;Philip N. Howard

Frequent Co-Authors

Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Daniel Kreiss
Daniel Kreiss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen University of Copenhagen
John C. Whittaker
John C. Whittaker Grinnell College
Claudia Langenberg
Claudia Langenberg Queen Mary University of London
Patricia B. Munroe
Patricia B. Munroe Queen Mary University of London
Martin Farrall
Martin Farrall University of Oxford
Mark Lathrop
Mark Lathrop McGill University
Daniel I. Chasman
Daniel I. Chasman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University

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