Philip N. Howard | |
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Born | 1970 Montreal, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater |
Innis College, Toronto (B.A., Political Science) London School of Economics (M.Sc., Economics) Northwestern University (Ph.D., Sociology) |
Occupation | Author, Professor, University of Washington and University of Oxford |
Known for | politics and technology, political communication, network ethnography, astroturf, bots, computational propaganda |
Spouse(s) | Gina Neff |
Awards | Best Book awards from American Sociological Association, American Political Science Association, and International Communication Association Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences |
Website | www.philhoward.org/ |
Philip N. Howard is a sociologist and communication researcher who studies the impact of information technologies on democracy and social inequality. He is a faculty member of the Department of Communication, the Jackson School for International Studies, and the Information School at the University of Washington. He took up the professorship in Internet Studies at the University of Oxford's Oxford Internet Institute on 1 July 2016.
Philip N. Howard was born in Montreal in 1970. He is married to Gina Neff, also a professor at the University of Washington, and has two young sons.
Howard has been a Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington D.C., the London School of Economics' Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. In 2013 he moved to Budapest, Hungary where he helped to found a new School of Public Policy at Central European University.