Recent
“Canada’s Online Harms Act gets the big things right.” With Emily Laidlaw, The Globe and Mail, March 1, 2024.
“It’s time to table the Online Harms Bill.” With Emily Laidlaw, The Toronto Star, November 3, 2023.
“We are in a crisis of knowledge - and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time.” The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2023.
“How we can move forward, now that the divisive Bill C-18 is law.” With Supriya Dwivedi. The Globe and Mail, July 21, 2023.
“Don’t Ban TikTok, Make is Safer.” With Frances Haugen, The Globe and Mail, May 26. 2023.
“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. NiemanLab. August 9, 2022.
“Mis- and Disinformation During the 2021 Canadian Federal Election.” Media Ecosystem Observatory. March 31, 2022.
“We have the regulatory tools we need to fix Facebook.” With Beverley McLachlin and Peter MacLeod. The Globe and Mail. October 13, 2021.
“Canada shouldn’t turn away from the difficult task of regulating online speech.” The Globe and Mail. June 25, 2021.
The Case for Platform Governance. The Centre for International Governance Innovation. November 4, 2019.
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Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Era. March 2015, Oxford University Press, New York.
The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink its Foreign Policies. December 2015, (ed., with Roland Paris), University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Journalism After Snowden, Columbia University Press (ed with Emily Bell, Smitha Khorana and Jennifer R. Henrichsen) February 2017.
The New Global Journalism: Foreign Correspondence in Transition. Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, 2014 (ed with Ann Cooper).
Human Security. Sage Major Work, Four-Volume Set. London, UK. 2013.
The Handbook of Human Security, Routledge Press, 2013 (ed., with Mary Martin).
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“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
“The Case for Platform Governance.” Centre for International Governance Innovation. November 4, 2019.
“Quantum Leap: China’s Satellite and the New Arms Race.” With Robert Gorwa. Foreign Affairs. September 7, 2016.
“Can Journalism Be Virtual?” Columbia Journalism Review. Fall/Winter 2016.
“Towards a Whole of Government Digital Strategy.” Policy Magazine. July/August 2016, pp. 6-8.
“Coin Toss: Will Blockchain undermine or buttress state power?” The Literary Review of Canada. July 2016.
“The Violence of Algorithms: Why Big Data Is Only as Smart as Those Who Generate It.” Foreign Affairs. May 25, 2015.
“Liberal Baggage: The national party’s greatest burden may be its past success.” With David Eaves. The Literary Review of Canada. May 2012.
“A World Turned Upside Down: To face an age of climate change, Twitter and counterinsurgency, Canada’s foreign policy establishment needs fresh ideas.” The Literary Review of Canada. December 2010.
“Progressivism’s End: In Obama, both Americans and Canadians can see the promise of something new.” With David Eaves. The Literary Review of Canada. September 2008.
“Rattle and Hum: Hello, Baghdad! A Kurdish singer rocks Iraq.” With Emily Paddon. The Walrus Magazine. January 21, 2009.
“3D Vision: Can Canada reconcile its defense, diplomacy and development objectives in Afghanistan?” With Patrick Travers. The Walrus Magazine. July 12, 2007.
“One Step Closer to an Obama-Ignatieff Continent.” The Prospect Magazine. December 10, 2008.
“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.
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“The Online News Act keep 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. NiemanLab. August 9, 2022.
“We have the regulatory tools we need to fix Facebook.” The Globe and Mail. October 13, 2021.
“Countering the New Red Tech Scare.” July 31, 2021.
“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.
“To Fix the Internet, Look to How It’s Built.” December 22, 2020.
“Trust in Vaccines Is the Infodemic Challenge of 2021.” December 14, 2020.
“Doctorow versus Zuboff.” December 2, 2020.
“How to Govern the New Digital Domain.” With Oscar Jonsson. Project Syndicate. October 20, 2020.
”Hosting Big Tech in a Year of Pandemic.” August 27, 2020.
“Algorithm 'gatekeepers' undermine democracy and health.” With Ben Scott. Montreal Gazette. August 6, 2020.
”Governing Platforms after COVID-19.” With Ben Scott. August 18, 2020.
“Democratizing Science or Unleashing the Black Hats?” August 14, 2020.
“US Antitrust Hearings Are the Start, Not the End, of a Long Game.” July 30, 2020.
“Backstopping the Civic Function of Journalism.” July 16, 2020.
“To fix Facebook, we need democratic governance not self-governance.” The Globe and Mail. July 10, 2020.
“To Fix Facebook Look to Government, Not the Market.” July 2, 2020.
“Maria Ressa and Social Media’s Illiberal Intent.” June 16, 2020.
“Should We Use Digital Contact Tracing at All?” June 4, 2020.
“During a Pandemic, Big Tech Will Only Get Bigger.” May 21, 2020.
“Reform or Collapse: Why Douglas Rushkoff Is Calling for an Internet Renaissance.” May 7, 2020.
“Fact-checking Is Necessary to Stop the Infodemic — but It’s Not Enough.” April 23, 2020.
“A Post-COVID-19 Digital Bretton Woods.” With Rohinton P. Medhora. April 19, 2020.
“Without More Market Pressure, Platforms Won’t Make Structural Changes.” March 12, 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.
“How Will Regulators Approach the Third Wave of Technology Policy?” February 13, 2020.
“Why We Shouldn’t Rely on Silicon Valley’s Philanthropy to Replace the Welfare State.” January 16, 2020.
“How Quantum Tech Could Upend Global Power Structures.” January 2, 2020.“We can save democracy from destructive digital threats.” With Edward Greenspon. The Globe and Mail. August 20, 2018.
“Data governance in the digital age: How Facebook disrupted democracy.” Financial Post. May 25, 2018.
“The era of big tech self-governance has come to an end.” The Globe and Mail. April 11, 2018.
“The new rules for the internet – And why deleting Facebook isn’t enough.” With Ben Scott. The Globe and Mail. April 2, 2018.
“So, the liberal order is in freefall? Not so fast.” With Robert Muggah. The Globe and Mail. January 10, 2018.
“Is Facebook a threat to democracy?” The Globe and Mail. October 19, 2017.
“’Fake news 2.0’: A threat to Canada’s democracy.” With Edward Greenspon. The Globe and Mail. May 28, 2017.
“Ethics and governance are getting lost in the AI frenzy.” With Mike Ananny. The Globe and Mail. March 30, 2017.
“It’s time to reform the CBC for the digital age.” With Elizabeth Dubois. Toronto Star. February 1, 2017.
“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.
“What can governments learn from digital disruptors.” World Economic Forum. April 6, 2016.
“The promise and peril of digital diplomacy.” The Globe and Mail. January 9, 2015.
“Bitcoin is dead— Long live bitcoin.” Vice News. March 23, 2014.
“Decline in Canadian think tanks couldn’t come at a worse time.” With Robert Muggah. Toronto Star. October 9, 2013.
“Drones don’t just kill. Their psychological effects are creating enemies.” The Globe and Mail. March 13, 2013.
“With think tanks on the ropes, Canada is losing its bark and bite.” With Robert Muggah. The Globe and Mail. October 10, 2013.
“Let a commission, not broadcasters, call the shots.” With Rudyard Griffiths. The Globe and Mail. April 1, 2011.
“Afghan army: If you build it, who will come?” The Globe and Mail. September 6, 2011.
“Why Wikileaks will lead to more secrecy, not less.” Maclean’s Magazine. November 29, 2010.
“Review: The Canadian Century: Moving out of America’s shadow, by Brian Lee Crowley.” The Globe and Mail. August 10, 2010.
“Five reasons British coalition is not a harbinger for Canada.” The Globe and Mail. May 14, 2010.
“Learning from Britain’s three great debates.” With Rudyard Griffiths. National Post. 1 May 2010.
“How about real Liberal renewal?” With David Eaves. Toronto Star. November 20, 2008.
“2011 is a date, not a goal.” With Patrick Travers. Toronto Star. April 5, 2008.
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PEER REVIEWED
Bridgman, A., Merkley, E, Loewen, P.,Owen, T., Ruths, D., Zhilin, O. (2021, March 29). “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. (2020, May 29). “All in this together: deservingness of government aid during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Bridgman, A., Merkley, E., Loewen, P. J., Owen, T., Ruths, D., Teichmann, L., & Zhilin, O. (2020, May 4). “The Causes and Consequences of COVID-19 Misperceptions: Understanding the Role of News and Social Media.”
Merkley, E., Bridgman, A., Loewen, P., Owen, T., Ruths, D., & Zhilin, O. (2020, April 16). “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., & Loewen, P. J. (2020, May 21). Prospective Economic Costs Undermine Expectations of Social Distancing.
Merkley, E., Loewen, P. J., Owen, T., & Ruths, D. (2020, May 14). Anti-intellectualism and Information Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Taylor Owen and Avery E. Holton. “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalistic Disruption: Perspectives of Early Professional Adopters.” Digital Journalism. Vol. 5, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1-14.
Owen, Taylor. “The Networked State and the End of 20th Century Diplomacy.” Global Affairs. Vol. 2, no. 3, 2016, pp. 301-307.
Burgess, J Peter, Taylor Owen and Uttam Kumar Sinha. “Human Securitization of Water? A Case Study of the Indus Water Basin.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Vol. 29, no. 2, 2013, pp. 382-407.
Martin, Mary, and Taylor Owen. “The Second Generation of Human Security: Lessons from the UN and EU Experience.” International Affairs. Vol. 86, no. 1, 2010, pp. 211-224.
Travers, Patrick, and Taylor Owen. “Between Metaphor and Strategy: Canada’s Integrated Approach to Peacebuilding in Afghanistan.” International Journal. Vol. 63, no. 3, 2008, pp. 685-702.
Owen, Taylor. “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.
Benini, Aldo, Taylor Owen and Håvard Rue. “A Semi-Parametric Spatial Regression Approach to Post-War Human Security: Cambodia 2002-2004.” Asian Journal of Criminology. Vol. 3, no 2, 2008, pp.139-158.
Liotta, P.H., and Taylor Owen. “Why Human Security?” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. Vol. 7, no. 1, 2006, pp. 37-54.
Liotta, P.H., and Taylor Owen. “Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security.” Parameters. Vol. 36, no. 3, 2006, pp. 85-102.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, et al. “Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Wars or Fuzzy Boundaries?” Political Geography. Vol. 25. no. 4, 2006, pp. 361-382.
Owen, Taylor. “A Response to Edward Newman: 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.
Owen, Taylor, and Olav Slaymaker. “Toward modeling regionally specific human security using GIS: case study Cambodia.” AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. vol. 34, no.6, 2005, pp. 445-449.
Owen, Taylor. “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.
Owen, Taylor. “Human Security: A New View of Cambodian Vulnerability.” Cambodia Development Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 2003, pp. 9-16.
NON-PEER REVIEWED
Kiernan, Ben, and Taylor Owen. “Making More Enemies than We Kill? Calculating U.S. Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia, and Weighing Their Implications.” The Asia Pacific Journal. Vol. 13, no. 16, no. 3, 2015, pp. 1-9.
Owen, Taylor, and Ben Kiernan. “Roots of U.S. Troubles in Afghanistan: Civilian Bombing Casualties and the Cambodian Precedent.” The Asia Pacific Journal. Vol. 8, issue 26, no. 4, 2010.
Owen, Taylor, and Ben Kiernan. “Bombs over Cambodia: New Light on US Air War.” The Asia Pacific Journal. Vol. 5, issue 5, 2007.
Burgess, Peter J., and Taylor Owen. “Editors’ Note.” Introduction to “Special Section: What is ‘Human Security’?” edited by Peter J. Owen and Taylor Owen. Security Dialogue. Vol. 35, no. 3, 2004, pp. 345- 346.
Owen, Taylor. “Challenges and Opportunities for Defining and Measuring Human Security.” Disarmament Forum. No. 3, 2004, pp. 15-24.
Owen, Taylor. “Measuring Human Security: Overcoming the Paradox,” Human Security Bulletin. Vol. 2, no. 3, 2003.
Owen, Taylor. “Body Count: Rationale and Methodologies for Measuring Human Security.” Human Security Bulletin. Vol. 1, no. 3, 2002.
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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.
Lessons in Resilience: Canada’s Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election. Digital Democracy Project. May 2020.
“Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: attitudes, beliefs, and the information ecosystem.” Media Ecosystem Observatory. December 23, 2020.
“The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: understanding the role of news and social media.” Report, Harvard Kennedy School, Misinformation Review. With Aengus Bridgman, Eric Merkley, Lisa Teichmann, Oleg Zhilin, Derek Ruths, Peter John Loewen. June 18, 2020.
“The New Digital Domain.” Report, IE: Center for the Governance of Change. With Oscar Jonsson, Taylor Owen, Edoardo Campanella. September 16, 2020.
“Facial Recognition Moratorium Briefing #2: 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.
“Facial Recognition Moratorium Briefing #1: 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.
Bell, Emily and Taylor Owen, with Peter Brown, Codi Hauka and Nushin Rashidian. The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley Reengineered Journalism. The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University. 2017.
The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age. The Public Policy Forum. 2016.
Aronson-Rath, Raney, Milward, James, Owen, Taylor and Fergus Pitt. Virtual Reality Journalism. The Tow Centre for Digital Journalism, Columbia University. 2015.
Cooper, Ann and Taylor Owen, editors. The New Global Journalism: Foreign Correspondence in Transition, The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University. 2014.
Owen, Taylor. Media, Technology and Intelligence. The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), 2013.
Owen, Taylor. Disruption: Foreign Policy in a Networked World. Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Position Paper, 2012.
Owen, Taylor, and Alexandre Grigsby. In Transit: Gangs and Criminal Networks in Guyana. A Working Paper of the Small Arms Survey, Geneva. 2012.
Owen, Taylor, and Rudyard Griffiths. The People’s Debates: A Report on Canada’s Televised Election Debates. Aurea Foundation, 2011.
Owen, Taylor, and Emily Paddon. The Challenges of Integrated Peacebuilding in Afghanistan. Report for the Canada Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 2009.
Owen, Taylor. The Uncertain Future of Human Security in the UN. UNESCO Working Paper, Oxford. Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Travers, Patrick, and Taylor Owen. Peacebuilding While Peacemaking: The Merits of a 3D Approach in Afghanistan. UBC Centre for International Relations Security and Defense Forum Working Paper, no. 3, 2007.
Jackson, Thomas, Marsh, Nicholas, Owen, Taylor and Anne Thurin. Who Takes the Bullet? The Impact of Small Arms Violence. Norwegian Church Aid. 2005.
Owen, Taylor, and Aldo Benini. Human Security in Cambodia: A Statistical Analysis of Large-Sample Sub-National Vulnerability Data. The Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004.
Owen, Taylor, Kathryn Furlong, and Nils Petter Gleditsch. Codebook for the shared river basin GIS and database. The Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute. Oslo, 2004.
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Kiernan, Ben and Taylor Owen. “Iraq, Another Vietnam? Consider Cambodia.” The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory, edited by Mark Pavlick. Common Courage Press, July 2018.
Owen, Taylor. “Global Media Power.” The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism, edited by Tamara Witschge, C.W. Anderson, David Domingo and Alfred Hermida, London, Sage Publications, 2016, pp. 25-35.
Bell, Emily, Taylor Owen and Smitha Khorana. “Introduction.” Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State, edited by Emily Bell and Taylor Owen, with Smitha Khorana and Jennifer Henrichsen, Columbia University Press, 2016, pp. 1-18.
Paris, Roland, and Taylor Owen. “Introduction: A Transforming World.” The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink Its International Policies, edited by Roland Paris and Taylor Owen, University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 3–19.
Paris, Roland, and Taylor Owen, “Conclusion: Imagining a More Ambitious Canada.” The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink Its International Policies, edited by Roland Paris and Taylor Owen, University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 175–188.
Martin, Mary, and Taylor Owen. “Introduction.” Routledge Handbook of Human Security, edited by Mary Martin and Taylor Owen, London, Routledge, 2014, pp. 1-15.
Owen, Taylor. “Human Security Thresholds.” Routledge Handbook of Human Security, edited by Mary Martin and Taylor Owen, London; New York, Routledge, 2014, pp. 58-65.
Owen, Taylor. “Human Security Mapping.” Routledge Handbook of Human Security, edited by Mary Martin and Taylor Owen, London; New York, Routledge, 2014, pp. 308-319.
Martin, Mary, and Taylor Owen. “Conclusion.” Routledge Handbook of Human Security, edited by Mary Martin and Taylor Owen, London; New York, Routledge, 2014, pp. 331-335.
Owen, Taylor. “Editor’s Introduction: Human Security.” Human Security, edited by Taylor Owen, London, Sage Publications, 2013, vol 1, pp. xxiii-xlix.
Owen, Taylor, and Emily Paddon. “Whither Humanitarian Space? The Costs of Integrated Peacebuilding in Afghanistan.” Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law, edited by Benjamin Perrin, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2013, pp. 267-287.
Eaves, David, and Taylor Owen. “Missing the Link: How the Internet is Saving Journalism.” The New Journalism: Roles, Skills, and Critical Thinking, edited by Paul Benedetti, Timothy Currie, and Kim Kierans, Toronto, Edmund Montgomery Press, 2010.
Operationalizing Human Security: From Local Vulnerability to International Policy, DPhil Thesis, The University of Oxford, July 2010.
Owen, Taylor. “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.
Owen, Taylor. “Critical Human Security: A Contested Concept.” The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies, edited by J. Peter Burgess, Oxford, Routledge, 2010, pp. 39-50.
Owen, Taylor. “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.