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