Category Archives: online activism

The Mexican Stop ACTA movement and the politicization of Mexican copyright (or, how I spent my winter vacation)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by bhaggart

I’m at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in Victoria, British Columbia, all this week, so now is as good a time as any to actually highlight some of the things I’ve been working on for the … Continue reading →

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SOPA and online social movements: Thinking transnationally, acting locally

Posted on March 5, 2013 by bhaggart

Just noticed that Susan Sell, a big influence on my own studies – her Private Power, Public Law (online for free at the link!) was one of the starting points for my dissertation – has cited me in an article on … Continue reading →

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What a century-old political science theory can tell us about the future of online activism (spoiler: a heck of a lot)

Posted on December 11, 2012 by bhaggart

One of my old Carleton professors, Glen Williams, always used to make time in his first-year political science intro course to teach about Robert Michel’s Iron Law of Oligarchy, which Michels came up with almost a century ago, in 1911. … Continue reading →

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