{"id":858,"date":"2019-08-20T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=858"},"modified":"2019-08-20T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:31:10","slug":"michael-christensen","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/people\/michael-christensen\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Christensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Christensen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He has previously taught in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary\u2019s University (Halifax) and in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. In 2016-2017 he was a postdoctoral fellow at York University\u2019s Global Digital Citizenship Lab and he had previously held a research fellowship with the Democratic Resource Center at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC. His academic interests are in the fields of democracy and human rights, international aid organizations, science and expert knowledge and digital media. His current research focuses on emerging forms of expertise and democratic debate mediated through digital technologies, with a special emphasis on the social and legal implications of online harassment and disinformation. This research incorporates qualitative methodological approaches with new forms of computational social science designed to deal with large unstructured text corpora.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Research\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>Interests<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Law, democracy and digital culture<\/li>\n<li>Privacy, data justice and social inequality<\/li>\n<li>Science and Technology Studies<\/li>\n<li>Social and political theory<\/li>\n<li>Qualitative research methods<\/li>\n<li>Computational social science and digital research methods<\/li>\n<li>History of human rights and western humanitarianism<\/li>\n<li>History of the social sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Journal Articles<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christensen, M. (2017) \u201cInterpreting the Organizational Practices of North American Democracy Assistance\u201d\u00a0<em>International Political Sociology<\/em>, 11(2): 148-165.<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, M. (2015) \u201cRe-establishing \u2018the social\u2019 in research on democratic processes: Mid-century \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 voter studies and Paul F. Lazarsfeld\u2019s alternative vision,\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of the History of the Behavioral \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sciences<\/em>\u00a051(3): 308-332<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, M. (2013) \u201cThe Social Facts of Democracy: Science meets politics with Mosca, Pareto, Michels &amp; Schumpeter,\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Classical Sociology<\/em>, 13(4): 460-486<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Book Chapters<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christensen, M (2017) \u201cA Critical Sociology of International Expertise: The Case of International Democracy Assistance,\u201d in Kurasawa (ed.)\u00a0<em>Interrogating the Social \u2013 A Critical Sociology for the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century<\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Articles in Process<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christensen, M. \u201cLegal and Political Discourses of Expertise in Western Democratization Projects\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, M., with F. Kurasawa, P. Walsh, Y. Zhao and B. 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