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Author Niezen, Ronald, author.

Title #HumanRights : The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice / Ronald Niezen
Published Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (280 p.)
Series Stanford Studies in Human Rights Ser
Stanford Studies in Human Rights Ser
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Utopia and Despair -- 1. Street Justice -- 2. Human Rights 3.0 -- 3. Belling the Cat -- 4. Shouting Above the Noise -- 5. Media War -- 6. The Politics of Memory -- Conclusion: Truth and Power -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary Social justice and human rights movements are entering a new phase. Social media, artificial intelligence, and digital forensics are reshaping advocacy and compliance. Technicians, lawmakers, and advocates, sometimes in collaboration with the private sector, have increasingly gravitated toward the possibilities and dangers inherent in the nonhuman. #HumanRights examines how new technologies interact with older models of rights claiming and communication, influencing and reshaping the modern-day pursuit of justice. Ronald Niezen argues that the impacts of information technologies on human rights are not found through an exclusive focus on sophisticated, expert-driven forms of data management but in considering how these technologies are interacting with other, "traditional" forms of media to produce new avenues of expression, public sympathy, redress of grievances, and sources of the self. Niezen considers various ways that the pursuit of justice is happening via new technologies, including crowdsourcing, social media-facilitated mobilizations (and enclosures), WhatsApp activist networks, and the selective attention of Google's search engine algorithm. He uncovers how emerging technologies of data management and social media influence the ways that human rights claimants and their allies pursue justice, and the "new victimology" that prioritizes and represents strategic lives and types of violence over others. #HumanRights paints a striking and important panoramic picture of the contest between authoritarianism and the new tools by which people attempt to leverage human rights and bring the powerful to account
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
Subject Human rights advocacy -- Technological innovations
LAW / Civil Rights.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020002346
ISBN 9781503612648
1503612643