Short Biography
Philip N. Howard (BA Toronto, MSc London School of Economics, PhD Northwestern) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. His current research and teaching interests include the role of new information technologies in the political communication systems of advanced democracies, and the role of new information technologies in the social development of poor countries. His book New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006) is about how information technology is by political elites to structure public opinion and political culture in the United States. He has co-edited Society Online: The Internet In Context (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003) and is currently co-editing the Handbook of Internet Politics (London, UK: Routledge). His peer-reviewed research has appeared in the American Behavioral Scientist, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and New Media & Society. He has worked on several National Science Foundation projects, serving on the advisory board of the Survey2000 and Survey2001 Projects, co-managing a project about Information and Communication Technologies in Central Asia, and directing the World Information Access Project. This latest research project—supported by both the NSF and Intel's People and Practices Group—investigates patterns of technology diffusion between and within developing countries. He teaches courses on research methods, politics online, and international development. Howard has been a Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington D.C., and the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London.
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