Communication Technology and African Politics (2019)
A communications perspective on the history of power in the African continent reveals change and continuity in a digital age.
Publications
The Right of Peaceful Assembly Online: Research Pack
This Research Pack is the outcome of an interdisciplinary collaboration between staff and students at Cambridge’s CGHR and the University of East Anglia Law School.
Biennial Report 2016-18
2016-2018 saw changes at CGHR that affirmed its multi-disciplinary credentials in Cambridge. Ella and Sharath's initiative to start a podcast 'Declarations' is proving to be a success.
The Power of the “Audience-Public”: Interactive Radio in Africa (2018).
This text explores how interactive broadcast media, particularly in Africa, reshapes political communication by involving audiences in radio and TV shows. It examines how the uncertain nature of…
Risk and the Pluralism of Digital Human Rights Fact-Finding and Advocacy (2018)
While the rise of ICTs has certainly created new opportunities for human rights practitioners, it has also created new risks – which are silencing, and unequally so.
Capital, Politics and Pedagogy: The Case of Education Inside the United Nations (2017)
The UN is often questioned about its ongoing relevance and involvement in peace and security, but its involvement in higher education for peace is rarely examined.
Vehicles for accountability or cloaks of impunity? How can national commissions of inquiry achieve accountability…
National commissions of inquiry are often set up by governments after crises or human rights violations to investigate events and identify those affected. Supporters see them as flexible…
Social Media and Human Rights Advocacy (2017)
The visibility of human rights advocacy depends on the logics of the social media field, the target audience fields, and the political field(s) across which communication takes place.
Special Procedures in the Digital Age (2017)
We outline the implications of information and communication technologies for the United Nations’ practices to protect and promote human rights.
Source Credibility as ‘Information Subsidy’: NGO Journalism at Mexican Human Rights NGOs (2016)
By building their credibility as sources — through interpersonal relationships with journalists, through authority with human rights leaders, and through associations with NGO networks — human rights NGOs…
Annual Report 2015-16
CGHR welcomed a Wellcome Trust project on health and technology. It has also seen the development of Ella McPherson’s work on Human Rights in the Digital Age.