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.
Publication Type: Book Chapters
‘Deal with Me, Here I Stand!’: Presence, Participation and the Equal Protection of Online…
The right of assembly in online spaces raises questions about the nature of presence and participation and faces challenges due to the commercial logics of online spaces.
Open Source Investigations and the Technology-Driven Knowledge Controversy in Human Rights Fact-Finding (2020)
Human rights fact-finding, like almost all professions that turn on truth-claims, is in the midst of a technology-driven ‘knowledge controversy’ that is at once unsettling and productive.
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.
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.
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.
Digital Human Rights Reporting by Civilian Witnesses: Surmounting the Verification Barrier (2015)
The verification barrier in human rights fact-finding arises between amateur civilian witnesses and professional fact-finders, but can be surmounted by verification strategies and verification subsidies.
How Editors Choose Which Human Rights News to Cover: A Case Study of Mexican…
How journalists at Mexican newspapers determine human rights newsworthiness interacts with overt influences on journalism, such as economic considerations and political pressures, to produce human rights news.