Professor Philip Howard
Professor of Internet Studies
Philip N. Howard is a professor of sociology, information, and international affairs. He is Director of the Programme on Democracy and Technology, and is a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College.
Sam Woolley curated a collection of Points/talking bots. “What is the Value of a Bot?” is a series of essays from a week-long workshop at Data & Society that led by “Provocateur-in-Residence” Sam Woolley. The workshop brought together a group of experts to get a better grip on the questions that bots raise for public life:
- How to Think About Bots by Samuel Woolley, danah boyd, Meredith Broussard, Madeleine Elish, Lainna Fader, Tim Hwang, Alexis Lloyd, Gilad Lotan, Luis Daniel Palacios, Allison Parrish, Gilad Rosner, Saiph Savage, and Samantha Shorey
- What is it like to be a bot? by Samantha Shorey
- Activist Bots: Helpful But Missing Human Love? by Saiph Savage
- Bots: A definition and some historical threads by Allison Parrish
- Our friends, the bots? by Alexis Lloyd
- On Paying Attention: How to Think about Bots as Social Actors by Madeleine Elish
- Rise of the Peñabots by Luis Daniel Palacios
- A Brief Survey of Journalistic Twitter Bot Projects by Lainna Fader
