#HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice

"Social justice claims, and the human rights movement in particular, are entering a new phase.

Social media, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the practices of advocacy and compliance.

In this new era, technicians, lawmakers and advocates, sometimes in collaboration with the private sector, have increasingly gravitated toward the possibilities and dangers inherent in the non-human.

Algorithms and automated data processing are unpredictable and opaque.

The use of algorithms and artificial intelligence may be advancing the protection of human rights in some ways, but new technologically-enhanced forms of human rights abuse have emerged alongside these new protections.

Ronald Niezen entreats readers not to be distracted by the shiny new innovations, and to instead consider how new tech interacts with the older models of rights claiming and communication, arguing that the key to understanding the new era of social j