Big Tech at the Bingo
In this new article, Professor Ella McPherson shows how British bingo players defend their communities when technosolutionism barrels into their halls.
Publications
Algorithmic Governance and Postcoloniality
In this paper, Dr Ashwin Varghese reads algorithmic governance through a postcolonial lens to understand the hierarchies it creates and what algorithmic transformation means for the postcolonial world.
Social Media, Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere
In this article, Dr Antoine Sander considers social media's impact on the public sphere.
The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly
The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly examines assembly as a distinct political and social practice that lies uneasily at the heart of the modern state.
An elemental ethics for artificial intelligence: water as resistance within AI’s value chain
Dr Sebastián Lehuedé considers the areas affected by AI-fuelled environmental harm and identify an ethics of resistance emerging from local activists, which he terms ‘elemental ethics’.
The dialectics of discretion in algorithmic governance and smart policing
This paper analyses the effect of algorithmic infrastructures on the practices of discretion within the police force.
CGHR Biennial Report 2022-24
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights’ 2022–24 Biennial Report highlights our activities, outreach and impact.
In Search of a Political Theory of Assembly
Professor Srinivasan’s recently published chapter, in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly that he co-edits, re-centres the place of assembly in political theory.
Unpacking the gendered nature of police work in India (2024)
This paper examines the gendered aspects of police work in India, focusing on the various roles women undertake in police stations.
E-Governance and Smart Policing in Kerala, India: Towards a Kerala Model of Algorithmic Governance?…
The Kerala government is implementing an e-governance initiative to integrate state services, focusing particularly on the digital transformation of policing.
AI Poses Threats to Education, Ethics and Eureka Moments (2024)
The only way to know if and how to adopt generative AI into our teaching and research is through openly deliberating about its impact on our main values.
The Digitally Mediated Freedom of Assembly (2024)
Discursively repositioning assembly online as the digitally mediated freedom of assembly extends the protection of this right to more people and more practices.