Digital Witness
Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 December 2019
- ISBN 9780198836063
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 246x175x25 mm
- Weight 898 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book covers the developing field of open source research and discusses how to use social media, satellite imagery, big data analytics, and user-generated content to strengthen human rights research and investigations. The topics are presented in an accessible format through extensive use of images and data visualization.
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From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before. To say that mobile technologies, social media, and increased connectivity are having a significant impact on human rights practice would be an understatement. Modern technology - and the enhanced access it provides to information about abuse - has the potential to revolutionise human rights reporting and documentation, as well as the pursuit of legal accountability.
However, these new methods for information gathering and dissemination have also created significant challenges for investigators and researchers. For example, videos and photographs depicting alleged human rights violations or war crimes are often captured on the mobile phones of victims or political sympathisers. The capture and dissemination of content often happens haphazardly, and for a variety of motivations, including raising awareness of the plight of those who have been most affected, or for advocacy purposes with the goal of mobilising international public opinion. For this content to be of use to investigators it must be discovered, verified, and authenticated. Discovery, verification, and authentication have, therefore, become critical skills for human rights organisations and human rights lawyers.
This book is the first to cover the history, ethics, methods, and best-practice associated with open source research. It is intended to equip the next generation of lawyers, journalists, sociologists, data scientists, other human rights activists, and researchers with the cutting-edge skills needed to work in an increasingly digitized, and information-saturated environment.
In this compelling volume, beautifully edited by Sam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig, and Daragh Murray - and featuring the contributions of leading scholars, experts, journalists and lawyers - the role technology can now play in sharpening our investigations into gross human rights abuses is examined in commendable detail. The contributors to Digital Witness have, much to their credit, analyzed meticulously all significant and relevant angles. It is a volume that will fast become the standard text for anyone interested in human rights, the collection of evidence in the digital age, and the prosecution of those who perpetrate gross human rights violations.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Section One
Introduction
The History of the Use of Open Source Investigation for Human Rights Reporting
The History of Open Source Investigations for Legal Accountability
Prosecuting Grave International Crimes Using Open Source Evidence: Lessons from the International Criminal Court
Open Source Investigations and the Technology-Driven Knowledge Controversy in Human Rights Fact-Finding
Open Source Investigations for Human Rights: Current and Future Challenges
Section Two
How to Conduct Discovery Using Open Source Methods
How to Effectively Preserve Open Source Information
Targeted Mass Archiving of Open Source Information: A Case Study
How to Verify User-Generated Content
The Role and Use of Satellite Imagery in Open Source Investigations
Section Three
Ethics in Open Source Investigations
Open Source Investigations: Vicarious Trauma, PTSD, and Tactics for Resilience
Open Source Investigations: Understanding Digital Threats, Risks, and Harms
Section Four
Open Source Information: Part of the Puzzle
Open Source Investigations for Legal Accountability: Challenges and Best Practices
