Heather Burns
Taking the Internet Back for God
This two-year Mphil will explore how the Christian Nationalist movement, as it exercises power in a rapidly evolving regulatory system, alters the legal frameworks of internet and technology regulation, with a focus on human and digital rights, during the second Trump administration.
The research will explore...
- What is the impact of Christian Nationalism on law, technology regulation, and internet governance, inside and outside the US?
- Has its impact on US law and policy triggered an evolution in the global frameworks of internet and technology regulation?
- How does the human rights apparatus respond to the legal challenges as well as the administration's attacks on its existence itself?
- What forms of hard or soft regulation, public or private, rise to the defense?
- How does law, regulation, tech policy, and civil society respond?
- What is the pushback? From whom?
- What resistance do they face? From whom?
Supervisors - Dr Birgit Schippers and Dr Lynsey Mitchell
Email - heather.burns.2024@strath.ac.uk
