Below is a selection of my research organized by topic.
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We have the regulatory tools we need to fix Facebook. With Beverley McLachlin and Peter MacLeod. The Globe and Mail. October 13, 2021.
Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Era. March 2015, Oxford University Press, New York.
Canada shouldn’t turn away from the difficult task of regulating online speech. The Globe and Mail. June 25, 2021.
To Govern Big Tech, Listen to Those Most Harmed by It. The National Post. March 19, 2021.
Trump’s social-media ban clouds a bigger crisis: the power and systemic failure of Big Tech. The Globe and Mail. January 14, 2021.
Countering the New Red Tech Scare. The National Post & CIGI. July 31, 2021.
Canada shouldn’t turn away from the difficult task of regulating online speech. The Globe and Mail. June 25, 2021.
Is Big Tech Ungovernable? The Globe and Mail. February 26, 2021
To Fix the Internet, Look to How It’s Built. CIGI, December 22, 2020.
A Post-COVID-19 Digital Bretton Woods. With Rohinton P. Medhora, CIGI,. April 19, 2020.
How to Govern the New Digital Domain. With Oscar Jonsson. Project Syndicate. October 20, 2020.
Algorithm 'gatekeepers' undermine democracy and health. With Ben Scott. Montreal Gazette. August 6, 2020.
Governing Platforms after COVID-19. With Ben Scott. CIGI. August 18, 2020.
To fix Facebook, we need democratic governance not self-governance. The Globe and Mail. July 10, 2020.
Maria Ressa and Social Media’s Illiberal Intent. CIGI, June 16, 2020.
Let's face the facts: To ensure our digital rights, we must hit pause on facial-recognition technology. With Nasma Ahmed. The Globe and Mail. February 14, 2020.
Conditions for Lifting a Moratorium on Public Use of Facial Recognition Technology in Canada. Taylor Owen, Derek Ruths, Stephanie Cairns, Sara Parker, Charlotte Reboul, Ellen Rowe, and Sonja Solomun. August 18, 2020.
Implications of a Moratorium on the Use of Facial Recognition Technology in Canada. Taylor Owen, Derek Ruths, Stephanie Cairns, Sara Parker, Charlotte Reboul, Ellen Rowe, and Sonja Solomun. August 18, 2020.
Evaluation Questions to Assess a Digital Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Application. Taylor Owen, Derek Ruths, Peter John Loewen, Stephanie Cairns, Sta Kuzviwanza, Sara Parker, Sonja Solomun. June 2020.
The Differences Between Contact Tracing and Exposure Notification. Taylor Owen, Derek Ruths, Peter John Loewen, Stephanie Cairns, Sta Kuzviwanza, Sara Parker, Sonja Solomun. June 2020.
The Case for Platform Governance. The Centre for International Governance Innovation. November 4, 2019.
We can save democracy from destructive digital threats. With Edward Greenspon. The Globe and Mail. August 20, 2018.
Quantum Leap: China’s Satellite and the New Arms Race. With Robert Gorwa. Foreign Affairs. September 7, 2016.
Towards a Whole of Government Digital Strategy. Policy Magazine. July/August 2016, pp. 6-8.
The new rules for the internet – And why deleting Facebook isn’t enough. With Ben Scott. The Globe and Mail. April 2, 2018.
Is Facebook a threat to democracy? The Globe and Mail. October 19, 2017.
Ethics and governance are getting lost in the AI frenzy. With Mike Ananny. The Globe and Mail. March 30, 2017.
What can governments learn from digital disruptors. World Economic Forum. April 6, 2016.
Coin Toss: Will Blockchain undermine or buttress state power? The Literary Review of Canada. July 2016.
Why the U.S. should but won’t partner with hactivists Anonymous. San Francisco Chronicle. May 1, 2015.
Why governments must embrace the new global digital reality. The Globe and Mail. April 10, 2015.
The promise and peril of digital diplomacy. The Globe and Mail. January 9, 2015.
The Violence of Algorithms: Why Big Data Is Only as Smart as Those Who Generate It. Foreign Affairs. May 25, 2015.
Bitcoin is dead— Long live bitcoin. Vice News. March 23, 2014.
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The Online News Act keeps journalism alive while it adapts to a new world. National Post & The Hub. November 8, 2022.
Canada’s Online News Act shows how other countries are learning from Australia’s news bill. With Supriya Dwivedi. Nieman Lab. August 9, 2022.
Backstopping the Civic Function of Journalism. CIGI, July 16, 2020.
Journalism After Snowden (ed with Emily Bell, Smitha Khorana and Jennifer R. Henrichsen), Columbia University Press, February 2017.
It’s time to reform the CBC for the digital age. With Elizabeth Dubois. Toronto Star. February 1, 2017.
The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley Reengineered Journalism. With Bell, Emily, Peter Brown, Codi Hauka and Nushin Rashidian. The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University. 2017.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalistic Disruption: Perspectives of Early Professional Adopters. With Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, and Avery E. Holton. Digital Journalism. Vol. 5, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1-14.
Can Journalism Be Virtual? Columbia Journalism Review. Fall/Winter 2016.
Virtual Reality Journalism. With Aronson-Rath, Raney, Milward, James, and Fergus Pitt. The Tow Centre for Digital Journalism, Columbia University. 2015.
The New Global Journalism: Foreign Correspondence in Transition. Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, 2014 (ed with Ann Cooper).
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Mis- and disinformation During the 2021 Canadian Federal Election. Media Ecosystem Observatory. Aengus Bridgman, Mathieu Lavigne, Melissa Baker, Thomas Bergeron, Danielle Bohonos, Anthony Burton, Katharine McCoy, Mackenzie Hart, Robert Hiltz, Rupinder Liddar, Pangying Peng, Christopher Ross, Jaclyn Victor, Taylor Owen, Peter Loewen. March 31, 2022.
Infodemic Pathways: Evaluating the Role That Traditional and Social Media Play in Cross-National Information Transfer. Frontiers of Political Science. Bridgman, A., Merkley, E, Loewen, P.,Owen, T., Ruths, D., Zhilin, O. (2021, March 29).
Lessons in Resilience: Canada’s Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election. Media Ecosystem Observatory. May 2020.
The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: understanding the role of news and social media. Harvard Kennedy School, Misinformation Review. With Aengus Bridgman, Eric Merkley, Lisa Teichmann, Oleg Zhilin, Derek Ruths, Peter John Loewen. June 18, 2020.
Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: attitudes, beliefs, and the information ecosystem. Media Ecosystem Observatory. December 23, 2020.
A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus: Elite and Public Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1-8. Merkley, E., Bridgman, A., Loewen, P., Owen, T., Ruths, D., & Zhilin, O. 2020, April 16.
Anti-intellectualism and Information Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Merkley, E., Loewen, P. J., Owen, T., & Ruths, D. 2020, May 14.
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Human Security. Sage Major Work, Four-Volume Set. London, UK. 2013.
The Handbook of Human Security, Routledge Press, 2013 (ed., with Mary Martin).
Human Securitization of Water? A Case Study of the Indus Water Basin. Burgess, J Peter, Taylor Owen and Uttam Kumar Sinha. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Vol. 29, no. 2, 2013, pp. 382-407.
The Second Generation of Human Security: Lessons from the UN and EU Experience. With Mary Martin. International Affairs. Vol. 86, no. 1, 2010, pp. 211-224.
Critical Human Security: A Contested Concept. The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies, edited by J. Peter Burgess, Oxford, Routledge, 2010, pp. 39-50.
The Critique that Doesn’t Bite: A Response to David Chandler’s ‘Human Security: The Dog That Didn’t Bark’. Security Dialogue. Vol. 39, no. 4, 2008, pp. 445-453.
In All but Name: The Uncertain Future of Human Security in the UN. Rethinking Human Security, edited by Moufida Goucha and John Crowley, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2008, pp. 113-127.
Measuring Human Security: Methodological Challenges and the Importance of Geographically-Referenced Determinants. Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts, edited by Peter Liotta, Springer NATO Science Series, 2008, pp. 35-64.
A Semi-Parametric Spatial Regression Approach to Post-War Human Security: Cambodia 2002-2004. With Benini, Aldo, and Håvard Rue. Asian Journal of Criminology. Vol. 3, no 2, 2008, pp.139-158.
Why Human Security? With Liotta, P.H Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. Vol. 7, no. 1, 2006, pp. 37-54.
Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security. With Liotta, P.H. Parameters. Vol. 36, no. 3, 2006, pp. 85-102.
Conspicuously Absent? Why the Secretary-General Used Human Security in All but Name. St Antony’s International Review. Vol. 1, no. 2, 2005, pp. 37–42.
Toward modeling regionally specific human security using GIS: case study Cambodia. With Olav Slaymaker. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. vol. 34, no.6, 2005, pp. 445-449.
Human Security – Conflict, Critique and Consensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold-Based Definition. Security Dialogue. vol. 35, no. 3, 2004. Pp. 373-387.
Human Security: A New View of Cambodian Vulnerability. Cambodia Development Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 2003, pp. 9-16.
Introduction to “Special Section: What is ‘Human Security’?” With Burgess, Peter J.,edited by Peter J. Owen and Taylor Owen. Security Dialogue. Vol. 35, no. 3, 2004, pp. 345- 346.
Challenges and Opportunities for Defining and Measuring Human Security. Disarmament Forum. No. 3, 2004, pp. 15-24.
Measuring Human Security: Overcoming the Paradox. Human Security Bulletin. Vol. 2, no. 3, 2003.
Body Count: Rationale and Methodologies for Measuring Human Security. Human Security Bulletin. Vol. 1, no. 3, 2002.
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Bombs Over Cambodia: New information reveals that Cambodia was bombed far more heavily than previously believed. With Ben Kiernan. The Walrus Magazine. October 12, 2006.
Historical Mapping and the US Bombardment of Cambodia, Ignite Presentation.
Making More Enemies than We Kill? Calculating U.S. Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia, and Weighing Their Implications. With Ben Kiernan. The Asia Pacific Journal. Vol. 13, no. 16, no. 3, 2015, pp. 1-9.
Roots of U.S. Troubles in Afghanistan: Civilian Bombing Casualties and the Cambodian Precedent. With Ben Kiernan. The Asia Pacific Journal. Vol. 8, issue 26, no. 4, 2010.
Bombs over Cambodia: New Light on US Air War. With Ben Kiernan. The Asia Pacific Journal. Vol. 5, issue 5, 2007.
Sideshow? A Spatio-Historical Analysis of the US Bombardment of Cambodia, 1965-1973