Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism. In 2010 he was a member of the Harvard University Center for Ethics. He cofounded the online group Demand Progress (which recently voiced its support for Richard O'Dwyer) and later worked with US and international activist groups Rootstrikers and Avaaz.

| java.util.Observer |
Observer is the interface to be implemented by objects that
receive notification of updates on an Observable object.
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This method is called if the specified
Observable object's
notifyObservers method is called (because the Observable
object has been updated. | |||||||||||
This method is called if the specified Observable object's
notifyObservers method is called (because the Observable
object has been updated.
| observable | the Observable object. |
|---|---|
| data | the data passed to notifyObservers(Object).
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