Publications

#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order' by Fleur Johns.
Available for purchase from Oxford University Press.
- Presents a ground-breaking study of digital humanitarianism and its ramifications for international law and politics
- Analyses how populations, maps, and emergencies take shape on the global plane in digital form
- Showcases an innovative interdisciplinary methodology centered on analysis of interfaces
- Articles & book chapters
- Relevant media outreach by project team
- Submissions on law and policy
- Other
Academic articles & scholarly book chapters:
Wayne Wobcke, Caroline Compton, Fleur Johns, Jayson Lamchek & Siti Mariyah, Nowcasting for hunger relief: a study of promise and perils (2022) Information Technology for Development
Fleur Johns:
Norms, in Rosi Braidotti, Goda Klumbyte & Emily Jones (eds), More Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury (2023)
State changes: Prototypical governance figured and prefigured (2022) Law & Critique
Governance by Data (2021) 17:1 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 53-71
Surveillance Capitalism' and the Angst of the Petit Sovereign (2020) British Journal of Sociology
Drowning, Rescuing, and the Law in Between (2020) European Journal of Sociology
Counting, countering, and claiming the pandemic: digital practices, players and policies (2020) in Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives, Eds Taylor, Sharma, Martin, and Jameson
Shadowboxing: The Data Shadows of Cold War International Law (2019) in International Law and the Cold War, Eds Craven, Pahuja, and Simpson
From Planning to Prototypes: New ways of seeing like a state Modern Law Review 82.5 (2019): 833-863
Data, detection and the redistribution of the sensible in international law American Journal of International Law 111.1 (2017): 57-103
The temporal rivalries of human rights Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 23.1 (2016): 39-60.
Global governance through pairing the algorithm and the list Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34.1 (2016): 126-149.
Caroline Compton:
The Temporality of Disaster: Data, the Emergency, and Climate Change (2020) Anthropocenes
Just Adaptation and Relocation: New Challenges for the Anthropocene (2019) King's Law Journal
Fleur Johns and Caroline Compton:
Data jurisdictions and rival regimes of algorithmic regulation Regulation and Governance (2020)
Marion Fourcade and Fleur Johns:
Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning Theory and Society (2020)
Relevant media outreach by project team members:
Fibre in the Coral Sea or message in a bottle? Who’s interests are we serving? blog with Pearls and Irritations: John Mandaue's Public Policy Journal, 3 August 2021
Digital witness and human rights: the Nuezca case New Mandala, 14 May 2021
Decision-making 2.0 for development and humanitarianism blog with Pulse Lab Jakarta, 11 March 2019
The promise and problems of including 'big data' in offical statistics The Conversation, 11 November 2018
Other
A special issue of Big Data and Society featuring some of the articles from the 2015 Data Associations workshop was published in July 2018. These include:
Data associations in global law and policy
Lyria B Moses, Fleur Johns, Daniel Joyce
Virtual, visible, and actionable: Data assemblages and the sightlines of justice
Sheila Jasanoff
Constructing global data: Automated techniques in ecological monitoring, precaution and reification of risk
Naveen Thayyil
The needle and the damage done: Of haystacks and anxious panopticons
Sarah Logan
Data doxa: The affective consequences of data practices
Gavin JD Smith
Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research
Kath Albury, Jean Burgess, Ben Light, Kane Race, Rowan Wilken
Data associations and the protection of reputation online in Australia
Daniel Joyce