Heidi Tworek
Areas of Expertise
About
Dr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and associate professor of international history and public policy at UBC. She directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work examines history and policy around communications, particularly the effects of new media technologies on democracy. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation as well as a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. She co-edits the Journal of Global History.â
Heidiâs interest in democracy was spurred by writing her prize-winning book, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019). Alongside co-editing four volumes, Heidi has published or has forthcoming over 45 book chapters and journal articles on media and communications, global history, the history of technology, legal history, digital history, and health. She is currently working on several projects, including global platform governance, the history and policy of health communications, and an edited volume on the interwar world. Her research has been supported by the Canada Research Chair program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the United Nations Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and Harvard University.
Alongside writing policy reports on topics including Covid-19 communications and online harassment, Heidi has briefed or advised officials and policymakers from governments around the world on media, democracy, and the digital economy. Her writing has been published and featured in major magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, The Globe & Mail, SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung, The Financial Times, CNN, and many others. She writes a monthly column for the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
She received her BA (Hons) in Modern and Medieval Languages with a double first from Cambridge University and earned her MA and PhD in History from Harvard University. Heidi has held visiting fellowships at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, the Transatlantic Academy in Washington DC, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Visit Heidiâs website for more information or follow her on Twitter @HeidiTworek.
Teaching
Publications
Books
News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019).
Co-editor (with Teresa da Silva Lopes and Christina Lubinski), Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business (37 chapters, London: Routledge, 2019).
Co-editor (with Jonas Brendebach and Martin Herzer), Exorbitant Expectations: International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York: Routledge, 2018).
Journal Articles
âNegotiating Sovereignty in German History: Historiographical Challenges,â (with RĂŒdiger Graf), Central European History (accepted for publication in spring 2022).
âA Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference,â (with Neville Calleja et al.), Journal of Medical Internet Research (forthcoming).
âFighting Hate with Speech Law: Media and German Visions of Democracy,â Journal of Holocaust Research 35.2 (May 2021), pp. 106-122.
âPandemics That Changed the World: Historical Reflections on Covid-19,â (with Ewout Frankema), Journal of Global History 15.3 (November 2020), pp. 333â335.
âOligopolies of the Past? Habermas, Bourdieu, and Conceptual Approaches to News Agencies,â Journalism: Theory, Criticism, Practice 21.2 (November 2020), pp. 1825â1841.
âOnline Disinformation and Harmful Speech: Dangers for Democratic Participation and Possible Policy Responses,â (co-authored with Chris Tenove), Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 13 (September 2019), pp. 215-232.
âCommunicable Disease: Information, Health, and Globalization in the Interwar Period,â American Historical Review 124.3 (June 2019), pp. 813-842.
âThe Death of News? The Problem of Paper in the Weimar Republic,â Central European History 50.3 (September 2017), pp. 328â346.
âThe Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study,â co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton, Journalism: Theory, Criticism, Practice 18.4 (April 2017), pp. 391â407.
âHow Not to Build a World Wireless Network: German-British Rivalry and Visions of Global Communications in the Early Twentieth Century,â History and Technology 32.2 (August 2016), pp. 178â200.
âIntroduction,â to âImagined Use as a Category of Analysis: New Approaches to the History of Technology,â co-authored with Simone MĂŒller, History and Technology 32.2 (August 2016), pp. 105â119.
âChanging the Rules of the Game: Strategic Institutionalization and Legacy Companiesâ Resistance to New Media,â co-authored with Christopher Buschow, International Journal of Communication 10 (April 2016), pp. 2119â2139.
âPolitical and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals,â Business History Review 89.3 (Fall 2015), pp. 447â474.
âIntroductionâ to âThe Governance of International Communications: Business, Politics, and Standard-Setting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,â co-authored with Simone MĂŒller, Journal of Policy History 27.3 (July 2015), pp. 405â415.
âThe Savior of the Nation? Regulating Radio in the Interwar Period,â Journal of Policy History 27.3 (July 2015), pp. 465â492.
âEditorial â Communicating Global Capitalism,â co-authored with Simone MĂŒller, Journal of Global History 10.2 (July 2015), pp. 203â211.
âThe Telegraph and the Bank: On the Interdependence of Global Communications and Capitalism, 1866â1914,â co-authored with Simone MĂŒller, Journal of Global History 10.2 (July 2015), pp. 259â283.
âJournalistic Statesmanship: Protecting the Press in Weimar Germany and Abroad,â German History 32.4 (Winter 2014), pp. 559â578.
âMagic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905â1945,â Enterprise & Society 15.4 (Winter 2014), pp. 672â686.
âThe Creation of European News: News Agency Cooperation in Interwar Europe,â Journalism Studies 14.5 (October 2013), pp. 730â742.
âPeace through Truth? The Press and Moral Disarmament through the League of Nations,â Medien & Zeit
25.4 (December 2010), pp. 16â28.
âThe Path to Freedom? Transocean and Wireless Telegraphy, 1914â1922,â Historical Social Research 35.1 (April 2010), pp. 209â233.
Book Chapters
âAfterword: Competition during Covid-19,â in Daniela Russ and James Stafford (eds.), Competition in World Politics: Knowledge, Practices and Institutions (Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, 2021), pp. 289-300.
âThe Impact of Communications in Global History,â in Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron (eds.), What in the World? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Global Social Change (forthcoming, Bristol University Press, 2021).
âCoded Internationalism and Telegraphic Language,â in Jessica Reinisch and David Brydan (eds.), The Reluctant Internationalists (Bloomsbury, 2021).
âNews, Propaganda, and Public Opinion from the Fin de SiĂšcle to the Cold War,â (co-authored with Richard R. John), in Ann Blair et al. (eds.), Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton University Press, 2021), pp. 211â237. Featured in Lapham’s Quarterly.
âPolicy Lessons from Five Historical Patterns in Information Manipulation,â W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston (eds.), The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 169-189.
âFake News: A Usable History,â (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton), in Joshua Grimm (ed.), Fake News! Misinformation in the Media (Louisiana State University Press, 2020), pp. 13-31.
âFrom Early Modern Moon Hoaxes to Nazi Propaganda: A Brief Anthology of Fake News,â (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton), in Joshua Grimm (ed.), Fake News! Misinformation in the Media (Louisiana State University Press, 2020), pp. 48-63.
âCommunications and Technology,â in Paula Baker and Donald T. Critchlow (eds.), Oxford Handbook of American Political History (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 408-426.
âA Union of Nations or Administrations? Voting Rights, Representation, and Sovereignty at the International Telecommunications Union in the 1930s,â in Gabriele Balbi and Andreas Fickers (eds.), History of the International Telecommunication Union: Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet (de Gruyter, 2020), pp. 243â264.
âDigital History and Global Publics,â in Valeska Huber and JĂŒrgen Osterhammel (eds.), Global Publics: Their Powers and Limits, 1870-1990 (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 313â342.
âScoop: The Challenge of Foreign Correspondence,â (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton) in James E. Katz and Kate Mays (eds.), Social Media and Journalismâs Search for Truth (Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 133â150.
âIntroduction to the Makers of Global Business,â (co-authored with Teresa da Silva Lopes and Christina Lubinski) in Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi Tworek (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business (Routledge, 2019), pp. 3-16.
âGlobal Communications,â (co-authored with Richard John) in Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi Tworek (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business (Routledge, 2019), pp. 315-331.
âIntroduction,â (co-authored with Jonas Brendebach and Martin Herzer) in Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, and Heidi Tworek (eds.), Exorbitant Expectations: International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Routledge, 2018), pp. 1-16.
âProtecting News before the Internet,â in Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (eds.), Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 196â222.
Policy Papers and Briefs
âDisinformation: Itâs History,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 14, 2021).
âLessons from South Koreaâs Approach to Tackling Disinformation,â (with Yoojung Lee), TechStream, Brookings Institution (July 12, 2021).
âWhose Democracy Counts When Global Social Media Rules Are Set?â Centre for International Governance Innovation (June 18, 2021).
âWhat Can Canadian Law Makers Draw from the New UK Online Safety Bill?â (with Suzie Dunn and Will Perrin), Centre for International Governance Innovation (May 20, 2021).
âBe Part of the Solution, Not Part of the Problem: A Social Media Code of Conduct for Canadian Politicans and Political Parties,â (with Chris Tenove and Jordan Buffie), Samara Centre for Democracy, Canada (May 2021), 29 pp.
âTaiwanâs COVID-19 and Pandemic Experience: What are the Lessons for Canada?â Canadian Global Affairs Institute/Institut Canadien des Affaires Mondiales (April 13, 2021).
âDoes Deplatforming Trump Set a New Precedent for Content Moderation?â (with Jameel Jaffer et al.), Centre for International Governance Innovation (January 18, 2021).
âThe Dangerous Inconsistencies of Digital Platform Policies,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (January 13, 2021).
âBeyond Briefings: How Canadian Officials Can Communicate More Effectively during the Covid-19 Endgame,â (co-written with Ian Beacock), First Policy Response (January 13, 2021).
âSocial Media Councils and e-Courts in Canada: Research Memo,â Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression (December 2020), 5 pp.
âProcesses, People, and Public Accountability: How to Understand and Address Harmful Communication Online,â (co-written with Chris Tenove), Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression (December 14, 2020), 33 pp.
âThe Promise and Peril of Anti-Pandemic Technology,â TechStream, Brookings Institution (December 10, 2020).
âWhen Democracy Meets Efficiency: How Communications Can End the Pandemic,â Institut Montaigne (November 5, 2020). French translation.
âIs News Property? How Digital Platforms are Resurrecting a Centuries-Old Question,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 30, 2020).
âTrolled on the Campaign Trail: Online Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics,â (co-written with Chris Tenove), Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, UBC (October 29, 2020). Media coverage in CBC, Globe & Mail, The Tyee, Yahoo News. Appearances on CBC.
âHow a Public Health Approach Could Help to Curb the Infodemic,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 15, 2020).
âLessons Learned from Taiwan and South Koreaâs Tech-Enabled Covid Communications,â TechStream, Brookings Institution (October 6, 2020).
âShould Big Tech be Setting the Terms of Political Speech?â (with Samantha Bradshaw et al.) Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 5, 2020).
âCovid-19 Has Democratic Lessons to Teach. Has Angela Merkel Helped Germany to Learn Them?â (with Ian Beacock and Sudha David-Wilp), Transatlantic Take, German Marshall Fund of the United States (October 2, 2020).
âDemocratic Health Communications during Covid-19: A Rapid Response,â (co-written with Ian Beacock and Eseohe Ojo), Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia (September 15, 2020), 112 pages. Featured in New York Times, Financial Times Alphaville, CNN, Vice, Georgia Straight, STAT news podcast. Appearances on CBC, CJOB, CKNW, Global News BC, TVO.
âWhy Doesnât TikTok Get Policy Makersâ Attention?â Centre for International Governance Innovation (June 25, 2020).
Co-lead (with Peter Pomerantsev), Final Report Drafting Team, âFreedom and Accountability: A Transatlantic Framework for Moderating Speech Online. Final Report of the Transatlantic High-Level Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expressionâ (June 2020).
âParis Call Community for Countering Election Interference: What Democracies Can Learn from the Government of Canada,â (co-written with David Salvo), Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (May 26, 2020).
âShould There Be a Public Health Exemption for Section 230?â TechStream, Brookings Institution (May 18, 2020).
âPlatforms Adapted Quickly during the Pandemic â Can They Keep It Up?â Centre for International Governance Innovation (May 14, 2020). Translated into French for Institut Montaigne (June 9, 2020).
âWhy the U.S. Needs a Pandemic Communications Unit,â TechStream, Brookings Institution (April 29, 2020).
âHow to Use Communications as a Medical Intervention,â German Marshall Fund of the United States (April 1, 2020).
âA New Blueprint for Platform Governance,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (February 24, 2020).
âDispute Resolution and Content Moderation: Fair, Accountable, Independent, Transparent, and Effective,â (lead author, co-authored with Ronan Ă Fathaigh, Lisanne Bruggemann, and Chris Tenove), Transatlantic Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression, Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania (January 14, 2020), 34 pp.
âHow Transparency Reporting Could Incentivize Irresponsible Content Moderation,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (December 10, 2019).
âHow Platforms Could Benefit from the Precautionary Principle,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (November 19, 2019).
âWhat Does Twitter’s Ban on Political Ads Mean for Platform Governance?â (with Joan Donovan et al.), Centre for International Governance Innovation (November 5, 2019).
âSocial Media Councils,â CIGI Series on Platform Governance, Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 2019).
âDisinformation and Democracy in Historical Perspective,â NATO Association of Canada/Association Canadienne pour LâOTAN (Fall 2019), pp. 15-18.
âSocial Media Platforms and the Upside of Ignorance,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (September 2019).
âLooking to History for Lessons on Platform Governance,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 2019).
âWithout Improved Transparency, Platform Regulation Is a Pipe Dream,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 2019).
âInternet Governance Canât Be Divorced from Infrastructure Governance,â Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 2019). Translated into French and published by Institut Montaigne (December 2019).
âAn Analysis of Germanyâs NetzDG Law,â (co-authored with Paddy Leerssen), Transatlantic Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression, Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania and Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam (April 2019).
âThe Next North American Election: How Canada is Protecting Itself and What Can Still be Done,â (co-authored with David Salvo), Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (March 2019).
âHow a Standards Council Could Help Curb Harmful Online Content,â (co-authored with Fenwick McKelvey and Chris Tenove), Policy Options (February 2019).
âPoisoning Democracy: How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Onlineâ (co-authored with Chris Tenove and Fenwick McKelvey), Public Policy Forum (November 2018), 34 pp.
âWhat the History of Radio Tells Us about Technology and Democracy,â Chatham House (October 2018).
âCommunications and the Integrity of Elections,â The Global Exchange (September 2018).
âHow History Helps Us to Uncover the Real Successes of Middle Power Internationalism,â Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa (July 2018).
âResponsible Reporting in an Age of Irresponsible Information,â Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (March 2018), 10 pp.
âSuspicious Minds: U.S.-German Relations in the Trump Era,â (co-authored with FrĂ©dĂ©ric Bozo et al.) Transatlantic Academy (May 2017), 34 pp.
âGemeinsam mit den Guten. Wie ein EU-Handelsabkommen mit Kanada zum Wertepaket wurde,â Internationale Politik (May/June 2017): 53-57.
âKommunikation in der Ăra von Fake News,â Zukunftsinstitut Politics & PR 4.0 (April 2017).
âWhy Germany Might Take a Maple Leaf out of Canadaâs Book,â Transatlantic Academy (March 10, 2017).
âApproaching Trump,â (with Sir Michael Leigh, Stefan Fröhlich, and Joshua Walker), German Marshall Fund (March 8, 2017).
âPolitical Communications in the âFake Newsâ Era: Six Lessons for Europe,â Transatlantic Academy Policy Brief (February 13, 2017).
âThe European Union Clashes with Google over Copyright,â German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Take (October 11, 2016).
Media Publications
“In Pandemic Communications, the Learning Curve Is Strangely Absent,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (December 3, 2021)
“Could E-Courts Help Fix Facebookâs Inadequate Oversight Board?” Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 29, 2021)
“Facebookâs America-Centrism Is Now Plain for All To See,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 4, 2021)
“Stopping the Hostile Online Attacks Hurled at Candidates,” (with Chris Tenove), Policy Options (September 13,2021)
“Why Female Political Candidates in Canada Are Receiving More Toxicity on Twitter,” Global News (August 29, 2021)
âVaccine Hesitancy,â The National, CBC (July 26, 2021).
âHealth Communications and Trust,â CBC Daybreak South (June 10, 2021).
âHealth Communications during Covid-19,â Interrobang: A Writing Podcast, UBC (June 9, 2021).
âVaccine Hesitancy and Communications,â Spice Radio (June 4, 2021).
âStories, Statistics, and Authenticity in Health Communications,â Beyond Disinformation, Social Sciences Research Council (May 25, 2021).
âWhy We Need to Change the Narrative on Outdoor Transmission,â (with Zain Chagla and Sumon Chakrabarti), Toronto Star (April 12, 2021).
âWhy Disease Names Matter,â Globe & Mail (March 24, 2021).
âSimply Talking about the Pandemic the Right Way Can Help Rebuild American Democracy,â (with Ian Beacock), The New Republic (December 24, 2020).
âA Year of News Mocktails,â Predictions for 2021, Nieman Lab (December 2020).
âWhat We Can Learn from Covid Communications in Other Countries,â (with Ian Beacock and Eseohe Ojo), Policy Options (November 5, 2020).
âOntarioâs Covid-19 Messaging Needs a Reset: Here is What to Do,â (with Ian Beacock) Ottawa Citizen (October 20, 2020).
âB.C. Shouldnât Be Afraid of a Pandemic Election â It Could Strengthen Our Democracy,â (with Ian Beacock) The Province (September 29, 2020).
âLeaving Big Tech to Govern Themselves Doesnât Work. Theyâre Getting Even Worse,â The Independent (August 7, 2020).
âGetting Your Book Read When Youâre a Humanities Scholar,â (interview of me by Letitia Henville), University Affairs (May 15, 2020).
âPandemics and History â a Roundtable on COVID-19 and Its Historical Connections (with John Christopoulos, Robert Brain, and Timothy Brook),â UBC History Department (May 3, 2020).
âWhen a Virus is the Cause, Racism is Often the Symptom: Q&A with Heidi Tworek,â UBC News (February 25, 2020). Reprinted in Richmond News.
âThe Year of Positive Pushback,â Predictions for 2020, Nieman Lab (January 2, 2020).
âCanada Needs a Social Media Council to Help Solve Complex Problems with Online Content Moderation,â Re$earch Money (December 11, 2019).
âNews from Germany,â TRAFO: Blog for Transregional Research (August 14, 2019).
âFalsche Nachrichten hat es immer gegeben: Ein Interview zwischen Heidi Tworek und Georg Ismar,â Der Tagesspiegel (August 3, 2019).
âGovernment-Imposed Internet Blackouts Are A Power Move to Suppress Dissent,â The Conversation (June 24, 2019).
âAuthor Q&A: Informational Wars,â Vancouver Sun (June 22, 2019).
âA Lesson from 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media,â The Atlantic (May 26, 2019).
âInformation Warfare is Here to Stay: States Have Always Fought for the Means of Communication,â Foreign Affairs (April 2019).
âNews from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,â The Page 99 Test (April 2019).
âInformationskriege,â Internationale Politik (March/April 2019), pp. 122-129.
âWe Canât Rely Solely on Silicon Valley to Tackle Online Hatred,â (co-authored with Chris Tenove and Fenwick McKelvey), Globe & Mail (November 12, 2018).
âQuietly, One of Trumpâs Tariffs Threatens Democracy,â Washington Post (September 11, 2018).
âLâĂąge dâor des mĂ©dias: une exception historique?,â Ina Global (September 4, 2018).
âAls ob FlĂŒchtlinge Touristen wĂ€ren,â SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung (June 20, 2018), p. 2.
âWhy the âGolden Ageâ of Newspapers was the Exception, Not the Rule,â (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton), Nieman Lab (May 2, 2018).
âWhat Europe Can Teach Canada about Protecting Democracy,â (co-authored with Chris Tenove), The Conversation (April 5, 2018).
âTweets are the new Vox Populi,â Columbia Journalism Review (March 27, 2018).
âIs Germanyâs Foreign Minister Having a Chrystia Freeland Moment?â The Conversation (January 8, 2018).
âNicht bei der Verteidigung sparen!â (co-authored with Niklas Helwig) ZEIT Online (October 30, 2017).
âForeign Propaganda is a Problem Again, But Maybe a Smaller One than We Think,â Made by History, Washington Post (October 3, 2017).
âDie Probleme mit Freihandelsabkommen,â Der Tagesspiegel (August 7, 2017), p. 6. Appeared online as âNichts aus den Fehlern gelernt,â Der Tagesspiegel (August 30, 2017).
âPrivacy Shapes Our News,â Goethe Institute, Washington DC (June 22, 2017).
âHow to Make Facts Matter Again,â OECD Yearbook 2017 (June 2017).
âHow Germany is Tackling Hate Speech,â Foreign Affairs (May 16, 2017).
âCambridge Analytica, Trump, and the New Old Fear of Manipulating the Masses,â Nieman Lab (May 15, 2017).
âMicrosoft is Right: We Need a Digital Geneva Convention,â Wired (May 9, 2017).
âHow to Spend It: Three Simple Suggestions to Increase German Military Spending,â War on the Rocks (May 2, 2017).
âWas Deutschland von Kanada lernen kann: Die Trump-Diplomatie,â Der Tagesspiegel (March 9, 2017).
âWhat Makes Health Special?â Invited Blog Post for Reluctant Internationalists, Birkbeck, University of London (December 19, 2016).
âWhy the History of News Explains its Future,â (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton) The Conversation (May 17, 2016).
Contributor, âWhat Can One Photo Tell Us about the Media and 2016?,â Politico Magazine (May/June 2016).
âLab Partners: Experimenting with Active Learning,â (co-authored with Gabriel Pizzorno) Perspectives on History. The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (April 2016), pp. 23-24.
âFrom World Health to World Heritage: Seventy Years of the United Nations,â UN Chronicle 52 (September 2015).
âDas MĂ€rchen vom Schicksalstag,â (co-authored with Thomas Weber) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (November 8, 2014).
âHistory Lessons: Why Germanyâs âGoogle Taxâ Wonât Work,â (co-authored with Christopher Buschow) Nieman Reports (October 23, 2014).
âDoes England Have the Solution to the Grade-Inflation Problem?â The Atlantic (October 20, 2014).
âWettbewerbsvorteile durch Gesetzgebung? Debatten zum Nachrichtenschutz im Wandel der Zeit,â (co-authored with Christopher Buschow) Der Digitale Wandel – Magazin fĂŒr Internet und Gesellschaft 1.2 (August 2014), pp. 14â16.
âLSR: Wiederholt sich die Geschichte?â (co-authored with Christopher Buschow) Vocer, iRights, and Golem (July 2014).
âWriting a Student Evaluation Can Be Like Trolling the Internet: How a Long-Despised University Tradition Can Be a Chance to Teach Civility,â The Atlantic (May 21, 2014).
âThe Real Reason the Humanities are âin Crisisâ,â The Atlantic (December 18, 2013).
Interviews and blog posts about the United Nations History Project website on US History Scene, Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Russian International Affairs Council, UN Dispatch, and the United Nations Foundation blog.
Interviews, quotes, and background discussions: CBC, CNN, Committee to Protect Journalists, CTV, Der Tagesspiegel, Deutsche Welle, E&T Magazine (Engineering & Technology Magazine), El PaĂs, El Universal, Exberliner, Financial Times, Influence, Kelowna Capital News, La Tercera, Macleanâs, Metro News Vancouver, Ming Pao, Morning Consult, National Journal Research, National Observer (Canada), News 1130, NPRâs On the Media, PassBlue, Politico, Reuters, Star Vancouver, Talking Points Memo, The New Republic, The Telegraph, The Tyee, Toronto Star, Vice.
Work featured by CBC, CTV, Financial Times, Québec Science, The Ubyssey.
TV, Radio, and Podcasts
“Why Is the Vaccination Rate in the Interior and Northern Health Regions Relatively Low?” The Jas Johal Show (July 28, 2021)
“Vaccine Hesitancy Between Family Members,” The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn, CBCListen (July 28, 2021)
âCommunicating around Vaccines,â (with Navdeep Grewal), CBC Early Edition, Vancouver (May 5, 2021).
âVaccine Communications,â The Daily Edition with Matt Gurney, Sirius XM 167 Canada Talks (May 3, 2021).
âVaccine Registration Mix-Up,â CTV Vancouver News at Six (May 2, 2021).
âA Rocky Rollout,â CTV National News (May 1, 2021).
âImportance of Remaining Vigilant after First Vaccine Shot,â CTV National News (April 28, 2021).
âDoug Ford Apologizes,â #onpoli Podcast, TVO (April 27, 2021).
âCovid-19 and Social Media Communication,â CityNews Vancouver (April 7, 2021).
âPublic Health Messaging and Behaviour,â CBC News Network with Natasha Fatah (April 4, 2021).
âCovid Communications and New Restrictions in BC,â Jill Bennet Show, CKNW (March 30, 2021).
âThreats against Bonnie Henry,â Lead item on CBC Vancouver News at 6 (February 25, 2021).
âCovid-19 and Pandemics in History,â Chris Walker Show, CBC Kelowna (February 23, 2021).
âBC Health Communications,â Lynda Steele Show, CKNW (February 22, 2021).
âBC Health Communications and ScienceUpFirst,â All Points West, Radio West, and On the Coast, CBC (January 26, 2021).
âBC Health Communications,â The Jill Bennett Show, CKNW (January 26, 2021).
âThe Challenges of Internet Regulation,â The Law Bytes Podcast with Michael Geist (January 25, 2021).
âCovid-19: The Path Forward,â (with Stefan Baral and Zain Chagla), Solving Healthcare with Kwadwo Kyeremanteng (January 21, 2021).
âCovid-19 Communications One Year On,â Lynda Steele Show, CKNW (January 18, 2021).
âCovid-19 Communications,â (with Kulpreet Singh), On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko, CBC Vancouver (January 8, 2021).
âCovid-19 Restrictions and Communications,â BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC (January 7, 2021).
âThe Distant Prayers Podcast,â (with Eseohe Ojo, Yoojung Lee et al.), Distant Prayers Research Project at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC (December 21, 2020).
âCovid-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy,â Spice Radio (December 16, 2020).
âCOVID-19: Communication Strategies to Engage People, Promote Vaccination, and More,â Solving Healthcare with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng (December 15, 2020).
âVaccines and Disinformation,â CTV Montreal (December 13, 2020).
âVaccines and Disinformation,â CBC News Network (December 12, 2020).
âWhat Leaders Say in a Pandemic: What Works, What Doesnât,â Ontario Today with Rita Celli, CBC (December 2, 2020).
âScience, Politics, and the Pandemic,â (with Stephen Meek and Jim Talbot), The Current with Matt Galloway, CBC (December 2, 2020). CBC write-up here.
âCovid-19 Communications and Resilience,â BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC (December 1, 2020).
âHealth Communications in BC,â The Lynda Steele Show, CKNW (November 30, 2020).
âPandemic Communications,â CBC New Brunswick (November 23, 2020).
âDepartures Podcast with Heidi Tworek,â Amsterdam & Partners LLP (November 13, 2020).
âConfusion over BC Covid Guidelines,â CBC All Points West, On the Coast, Radio West, CBC Vancouver Evening News, and CBC (November 9, 2020).
âNew Covid Guidelines in BC,â Global News BC (November 8, 2020).
âOnline Harassment and Politics,â CBC All Points West, On the Coast, and Radio West (October 29, 2020).
âPandemic Communications: In Need of a Reset,â (with Colin Furness, Amanda Galbraith, Matt Gurney), The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TV Ontario (October 28, 2020).
âCovid-19 Communications in Ontario,â (with Ian Beacock), CBC Ottawa (October 21, 2020).
âFacebook and Election Integrity in British Columbia,â C-FAX (October 20, 2020).
âElection Special,â (with Dipayan Ghosh) Scientific Sense (October 17, 2020).
âWomen and Politics in BC,â C-FAX (October 13, 2020).
âOntarioâs Covid Communications,â #onpoli Podcast, TVO (September 29, 2020).
âComparing BCâs Covid-19 Communications,â Global News BC (September 20 2020).
âCovid-19 Communications in Democracies,â CJOB with Geoff Currier (September 18, 2020).
âPandemic PR,â The Readout LOUD, STAT News (September 17, 2020).
âCovid-19 Communications around the World,â The Jill Bennett Show, CKNW (September 15, 2020).
âConspiracy Theories in the Past and Coronavirus,â On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko, CBC Vancouver (July 31, 2020).
âHow to Talk to Young People about Coronavirus,â Global BC News with Sonia Deol (July 25, 2020).
âYoung People and Coronavirus,â Early Edition with Stephen Quinn (July 24, 2020), CBC Vancouver and CBC Vancouver Island (July 28, 2020).
âA Skepticâs Guide to Democracy,â Writ Large, Lyceum podcasts (April 29, 2020).
âOn Trusting Public Health Communications,â Financial Times Alphaville (April 17, 2020).
âMasks and Coronavirus,â BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC Vancouver (March 31, 2020).
Segment on 5 CBC stations in British Columbia on health communications around coronavirus (March 24, 2020).
Coronavirus disinformation, segment on Spice Radio, Vancouver (March 12, 2020).
âHow This CBC Story Turned into a Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory,â CBC News (January 28, 2020).
âBCâs First Presumptive Case of Coronavirus,â BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC Vancouver (January 28, 2020).
âConcerns about Facebookâs Banning Deepfake Videos,â The National, CBC (January 7, 2020).
âOur Brains on Facebook,â Attention Control with Kevin Newman (October 14, 2019).
âBots, Trolls, and Defending Our Election,â Canadian Global Affairs Institute (October 8, 2019).
âThe Evolution of Disinformation,â The Spark, CBC Radio (October 6, 2019).
âPaying for Your Attention: Whoâs Putting Political Ads in Your Newsfeed?â CTV Vancouver (October 2, 2019).
âHow the Internet is Impacting Democracy,â CTV Morning Live, Vancouver (October 1, 2019).
âThe Struggle to Write the Rulebook for Social Media,â Global Translations podcast (with Rep. Ro Khanna, Commissioner Vera Jourova, et al.), Politico (July 25, 2019).
âPublished Opinion Is Not Public Opinion,â David Pakman Show (June 18, 2019).
âNews from Germany,â New Books Network (June 17, 2019).
âYouTube Moves to Ban Neo-Nazi and Holocaust-Denying Videos,â CBC News Network (June 8, 2019).
âMisinformation Station,â Connected and Disaffected (May 21, 2019).
âChristchurch Call and Online Extremism,â CBC News Network (May 14, 2019).
âSocial Media Apocalypse Now,â The Good Fight, Slate (April 10, 2019).
âGermanyâs Quest to Control the News,â The American Interest Podcast (April 9, 2019).
âDisinformation in Perspective,â EUScream (March 31, 2019).
âInformation Wars, Past and Present,â Late Night Live, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (March 26, 2019).
âSocial Media Bots,â Communications Governance Observatory, McMaster University (December 3, 2018).
âBuilding a Made-in-Canada Solution to Harmful Online Hate,â The Spark, CBC Radio (November 16, 2018).
âRhetorik der CSU auf dem PrĂŒfstand,â (CSU Rhetoric under Scrutiny) Tagesthemen, ARD (June 26, 2018).
âFake News and the Rise of Information Warfare,â The Global Exchange (June 11, 2018).
âTwitter Isnât the Voice of the People and Media Shouldnât Pretend It Is,â The Spark, CBC Radio (April 6, 2018).
âThe New Old Fear of Media,â Connected and Disaffected (March 28, 2018).
âNet Neutrality,â Mark Leonardâs World in 30 Minutes, European Council on Foreign Relations (December 18, 2017).
âFacebook, Politics, and Foreign Influence,â The Spark, CBC Radio (October 22, 2017).
âFreedom of Speech and Populism,â The Brainstorm podcast (with Hans Kundnani and Yascha Mounk), Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (August 21, 2017).
âSecuring a Digital Battlefield,â .Future Podcast (June 28, 2017).
âThe Future of Ransomware and the Networked World,â The Spark, CBC Radio (May 21, 2017).
âWomen at the United Nations,â Womanâs Hour, BBC Radio 4 (February 3, 2017).
âUnpicking the United Nations,â (with Lord Mark Malloch Brown, Jussi M. HanhimĂ€ki, and Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo), The Forum, BBC World Service (November 20, 2016).
âThe United Nations at 70: Then & Now,â (with Susan Pedersen, Ambassador John Negroponte, Nina Khrushcheva, William Cohen, Ian Hurd, and Matthew Russell Lee) Huffington Post Live (October 24, 2015).
Panel Discussion Participant, âAre the Humanities in Crisis?,â KCRW (December 27, 2013).
Regular appearances since 2017 on radio and TV on CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CTV, City TV Vancouver, CJOB (Winnipeg), CKNW (Vancouver), Euronews, National Post Radio, News1130 (Vancouver), Ottawa Today 1310, Spice Radio Vancouver, 900 CHML (Hamilton, Ontario).
Awards
Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference (2020)
Wiener Holocaust Library Fraenkel Prize (2020)
Honorable Mention, Council for European Studies Book Award (2020)
Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History (2014)
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (awarded 12 times, 2008-2015)
Affiliations
Non-Resident Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute
Non-Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Editorial Board, Histories of Internationalism series, Bloomsbury Press
Editorial Board, Global Connections: Roots and Routes, Leiden University Press
Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Affiliate, Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, UBC