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8 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 231 (2013)
Media Witness: Human Rights in an Age of Digital Media

handle is hein.journals/ichuman8 and id is 241 raw text is: MEDIA WITNESSES: HUMAN RIGHTS IN AN AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA DANIEL JOYCE* Abstract This article examines the impact of media witnesses in the field of human rights, looking especially at the rise of citizen media and the use of the Internet and social media by activists and international organizations. Despite the need to interrogate the technological determinism underlying many claims for digital media technologies, the development of 'citizen media' is a promising avenue for international law. New technologies can help actors connect with each other, engage new audiences, and potentially also assist with documentation, evidence gathering and compliance. But such possibilities bring dangers and difficulties which will not easily be resolved. This article examines the methodology of 'witnessing,' its significance for the media and for human rights, and their fusion in the context of digital media forms. These developments occur against a backdrop of the increasing significance given to the role of publicity in the international system. I argue that these processes are emblematic of broader moves towards mediated advocacy in the human rights sector, a phenomenon I term the 'mediatization' of international law. * Daniel Joyce is a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Law. He is also the Director of the New Media and Human Rights Project, Australian Human Rights Centre, UNSW. The author wishes to acknowledge the excellent research assistance of Emily Collett made possible by UNSW Law's Early Career Research Support Scheme, along with audiences in Sydney, Melbourne and Miami who have pushed him to think more carefully about new media witnessing and its possibilities. This article was completed whilst a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge. The author is particularly grateful to the organizers of the Social Media and Human Rights Symposium at St. Thomas School of Law and to the editors and staff of this Journal.

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