OII | Oxford Literary Festival

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3 Apr 2016

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Helen Margetts

Helen Margetts spoke about Political Turbulence at the 2016 Oxford Literary Festival on 3 April 2016.

[The authors] demonstrate how most attempts at collective action online fail but some give rise to huge mobilisations and even revolution. Those that succeed are unpredictable, unstable and often unsustainable. They argue that a new form of pluralistic democracy is emerging but one that is chaotic and turbulent. …Further details

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Professor Helen Margetts

Professor of Society and the Internet

Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet, a political scientist specialising in digital government and politics. She was Director of the OII from 2011-18. She is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College.

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