Technologies of Human Rights Representation

Author:   Alexandra S. Moore ,  James Dawes
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438487090


Pages:   241
Publication Date:   01 February 2022
Format:   Hardback
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The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal privacy and dignity but also our collective survival. Technologies of Human Rights Representation brings together three fields of research critical to securing our future: changing technologies, human rights, and representation. For each of these fields, this book asks key questions: How can we open the black box of technological advances so that we can more fully understand their effects upon our lives? What can we do to make sure that these effects align with the values of human rights? And how does the way we talk about technology and rights—from military reports and corporate marketing to human rights reports and poetry—amplify or diminish our capacity both to understand and to control what happens next? Contributors from anthropology, communications, criminology, global studies, law, literary and cultural studies, and women and gender studies bring diverse methodological approaches to these crucial questions.

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Author:   Alexandra S. Moore ,  James Dawes
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438487090


ISBN 10:   1438487096
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   01 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction James Dawes and Alexandra S. Moore 1. Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Ş. İlgü Özler 2. Machine-learning Technologies and Human Rights in Criminal Justice Contexts Jamie Grace 3. Quantifying and Visualizing Human Rights: The CIRIGHTS Data Project David Cingranelli, Mikhail Filippov, and Brendan Skip Mark 4. Forensic Science or Junk Science? How the Justice System Violates Human Rights When Science Is Misused or Misunderstood Elizabeth A. DiGangi 5. Hiding in Plain Site: Using Online Open-Source Information to Investigate Sexual Violence and Gender-Based Crimes Alexa Koenig and Ulic Egan 6. Legal Tragedies: Accounting for Civilian Casualties of Airstrikes in US Military Investigation Reports Christiane Wilke 7. Contested Memories: The Intimate Public and Technologies of Affect in Memorializing Holocaust Trauma Barbara LeSavoy and Donna Kowal 8. Grieving, Breathing, Keeping Time: Rights, Sequences, and Sonnetic ""Enfleshment"" Hanna Musiol 9. The Right to Securitization Peter Hitchcock Contributors Index"

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"""…the volume brings together a provocative set of approaches to technologies of representation, considering mediation, voicing, witnessing, and accounting … Technologies of Human Rights Representation holds broad appeal as a collection for scholars in human rights studies, humanitarian professionals, and students of international relations and government. The contributors span a diverse array of disciplines, including political science, gender studies, English, and legal studies."" — H-Net Reviews (H-Sci-Med-Tech) ""…given the roaring impact of technology upon today's world, the book makes inroads on a topic of urgent interest."" — CHOICE ""This collection uniquely leverages the tripartite structure of technology, representation, and human rights to reveal that acknowledging these concepts' intertwined nature advances our understanding of each. The volume's diverse approaches also provide tremendous value. Along with 'key' high-profile topics—AI and ML, quantification, criminal justice—it includes less obvious ones like the representation of human rights in interactive Holocaust memorials and by way of sonnets. This is excellent work from people who represent high quality analysis in a diverse set of disciplines.” — Brian H. Nussbaum, Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity, University at Albany"


...given the roaring impact of technology upon today's world, the book makes inroads on a topic of urgent interest. - CHOICE This collection uniquely leverages the tripartite structure of technology, representation, and human rights to reveal that acknowledging these concepts' intertwined nature advances our understanding of each. The volume's diverse approaches also provide tremendous value. Along with 'key' high-profile topics-AI and ML, quantification, criminal justice-it includes less obvious ones like the representation of human rights in interactive Holocaust memorials and by way of sonnets. This is excellent work from people who represent high quality analysis in a diverse set of disciplines. - Brian H. Nussbaum, Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity, University at Albany


This collection uniquely leverages the tripartite structure of technology, representation, and human rights to reveal that acknowledging these concepts' intertwined nature advances our understanding of each. The volume's diverse approaches also provide tremendous value. Along with 'key' high-profile topics-AI and ML, quantification, criminal justice-it includes less obvious ones like the representation of human rights in interactive Holocaust memorials and by way of sonnets. This is excellent work from people who represent high quality analysis in a diverse set of disciplines. - Brian H. Nussbaum, Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity, University at Albany


Author Information

Alexandra S. Moore is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author and editor of several books, including Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture. James Dawes is Professor of English at Macalester College. He is the author of several books, including The Novel of Human Rights.

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