Phil Howard·Nov 23, 2016Is Social Media Killing Democracy?This is the big year for computational propaganda — using immense data sets to manipulate public opinion over social media. Both the Brexit…
Phil Howard·Jan 28, 2016Types of EvidenceSocial scientists have to use evidence to explain the dynamics of our economic, cultural and political lives. Powerful arguments use…
Phil Howard·Jan 15, 201612 Common Fallacies Used in Social ResearchThink social science is free of fallacies? Here are the ones we use, and where we use them.
Phil Howard·Jan 3, 2016How to Get from a Social Problem to a Research Question and Research PlanFirst Few Steps, for Humanistic, Qualitative, Comparative and Quantitative Inquiry
Phil Howard·Sep 4, 2015Twitter Needs a “Terms of Sharing”Recently, some colleagues (wonderful team of @MCForelle, @saiphchen, @andresmh) and I came together to study the impact of bots on…