Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons for Online Social Movements from the First Canadian Facebook Uprising

Haggart, Blayne

doi:10.1017/s0008423913000838

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“…Today social media has proven to be one of the most, if not the most effective medium for the dissemination of information to various audiences. The power of this medium is phenomenal and ranges from its ability to overturn governments (e.g., Moldova), to mobilize protests, assist with getting support for humanitarian aid, organize political campaigns, organize groups to delay the passing of legislation (as in the case with the copyright bill in Canada) to making social media billionaires and millionaires [16,17]. The enabling nature and the structure of the media that social networking offers provide a wide range of opportunities that were nonexistent before technology.…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media, Ethics and the Privacy Paradox

Barrett-Maitland¹,

Lynch²

2020

Security and Privacy From a Legal, Ethical, and Technical Perspective

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Today's information/digital age offers widespread use of social media. The use of social media is ubiquitous and cuts across all age groups, social classes and cultures. However, the increased use of these media is accompanied by privacy issues and ethical concerns. These privacy issues can have far-reaching professional, personal and security implications. Ultimate privacy in the social media domain is very difficult because these media are designed for sharing information. Participating in social media requires persons to ignore some personal, privacy constraints resulting in some vulnerability. The weak individual privacy safeguards in this space have resulted in unethical and undesirable behaviors resulting in privacy and security breaches, especially for the most vulnerable group of users. An exploratory study was conducted to examine social media usage and the implications for personal privacy. We investigated how some of the requirements for participating in social media and how unethical use of social media can impact users' privacy. Results indicate that if users of these networks pay attention to privacy settings and the type of information shared and adhere to universal, fundamental, moral values such as mutual respect and kindness, many privacy and unethical issues can be avoided.

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Section: Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media, Ethics and the Privacy Paradox

Barrett-Maitland¹,

Lynch²

2020

Security and Privacy From a Legal, Ethical, and Technical Perspective

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“…Different variables, including Internet connectivity (e.g., speed, bandwidth), sociodemographic variables (e.g., income, education), and familiarity with the dynamics of digital political engagement, can shape the uses of digital media for political action (Martin, 2015; Min, 2010). Second, social media’s distinct affordances can enable geographically dispersed, like-minded people to connect and interact with each other more easily and rapidly (Castells, 2012; Haggart, 2013; Uldam, 2013). Third, social media can enable supporters of protest movements to be active outside the realm of established media and political elites.…”

Section: Social Media and Political Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking the Political Effects of Social Movements With a Strong Digital Component: The Case of #IdleNoMore in Canada

Richez

Raynauld

Agi

et al. 2020

Social Media + Society

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While many scholars have studied collective action with a strong social media component led by marginalized groups, few have unpacked how this form of political engagement captures the attention of established political elites and, in some cases, influences the mainstream political narrative and policy outcomes. Fewer have focused on the political impact of social media-intensive Indigenous protest movements. This article addresses these gaps in the academic literature. It does so by examining the online and offline impact of the Indigenous-led Idle No More movement at the federal level in Canada. To evaluate the movement’s effects on the public political narrative on Indigenous-related issues, this article reviews the content of the House of Commons Question Period before and after the emergence of the movement in December 2012. To measure Idle No More’s impact on policy outcomes, this article compares federal budgets and the volume of policy proposals pertaining to Indigenous Affairs introduced in the years preceding the beginning of the movement to those that came in the years following it. Semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders are also conducted to better comprehend the political impact of the movement. The study posits that protests coincided with momentary changes to the salience of Indigenous policy issues, but not with significant policy outcomes in that area.

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“…RMT and PPT, which were developed to explain traditional offline social movements, remain mostly useful for understanding the politics of protest in a digitally networked society (Garrett, , p. 203; Haggart, ). RMT argues that the success of a social movement depends on the ability of groups to exploit the resources available to them (McAdam, , p. 43).…”

Section: Social Movements Go Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…48–51) . Furthermore, the ability to reach out to various parts of society, including “academia, political and professional elites … raises the possibility of building bottom‐up social movement coalitions that challenge the dominance of older, hierarchical groups” (Gaved & Anderson, , p. 1076; see also Haggart, ).…”

Section: Social Movements Go Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Birth of a Movement: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the Politicization of Mexican Copyright

Haggart¹

2014

Policy &Amp; Internet

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The literature on social movements—national and transnational—and social media has tended to focus on cases from the global North rather than the South, raising questions about its applicability to countries with low Internet penetration rates and weak civil societies. To remedy this deficit, this article presents the case of the Mexican Stop Anti‐Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) network. In 2010–11, a network of about a dozen underfunded copyright and Internet activists convinced the Mexican Senate to reject—unanimously—the ACTA, a U.S.‐led plurilateral treaty that critics claimed would strengthen international intellectual property rights at the cost of fundamental Mexican Constitutional and human rights. This article argues that this victory was the result of activists' use of social media in a way that recognized the limits and possibilities within existing Mexican political arrangements. While Stop ACTA's success suggests social media's utility for social movements in other developing countries, it leaves open the question as to whether it can make up for weak civil society institutions over the long‐term.

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Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons for Online Social Movements from the First Canadian Facebook Uprising

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Social Media, Ethics and the Privacy Paradox

Social Media, Ethics and the Privacy Paradox

Unpacking the Political Effects of Social Movements With a Strong Digital Component: The Case of #IdleNoMore in Canada

Birth of a Movement: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the Politicization of Mexican Copyright

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