Steven Livingston – Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs at George Washington University – will argue that in documenting violations of broadly shared norms, contemporary human rights advocacy organisations rely on three often imbricated digital affordances, capabilities that are realised by the design of a technology. High-resolution remote sensing satellites and geographical information systems create geospatial affordances that allow for panoptic surveillance by nonstate actors; digital network affordances allow for the collection and analysis of data on digital networks, such as social media and purpose-built software and websites; and forensic affordances allow for the collection and analysis of otherwise illegible physical evidence.Time permitting, Livingston will also describe the methods and strategies used by abusive states to push-back on digitally-enabled fact-finding missions.