Jenna Imad Harb
Biographic Data
| ID | 2744366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenna Imad Harb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenna Imad |
| FAMILY NAME | Harb |
| SIGNATURE | HARB J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-8879-5441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon's digital humanitarian infrastructures
This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon's digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments related to biometric identification and automated poverty targeting, this article argues that humanitarian staff, refugee recipients and community members …
Colonial grids, exhausted bodies
Humanitarian crises reverberate globally, impacting basic yet essential infrastructures that sustain lives, especially energy infrastructures. This is true in Lebanon, where decades of conflict, refugee influxes, and corrupt government have exacerbated a state of prolonged polycrisis. Such conditions have led to unreliable, costly, and dysfunctional energy infrastructures that have stifled access to electricity and fuel across the country. Drawin…
Unblackboxing How Sociotemporalities Inform AI Accountability
In recent years, numerous accountability interventions have been introduced to address the harms and inequalities associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Early efforts concentrated on transparency and explainability, often operationalized as technical fixes intended to “open the black box” and render algorithmic processes more intelligible. However, sociological research has revealed the limitations of these interventions, particula…
Mechanisms of invisibility
Localisation refers to shifting the ownership and leadership of crisis response to local actors. Within the humanitarian sector, localisation has been framed as making aid delivery more reflective of needs on the ground, supporting more equitable structures, and addressing concerns of colonisation by Western-European actors operating in the Global South. In light of debates about ‘going local’, this article contributes to the literature on the ‘l…
Doing STS Now
The following editorial is a collaborative endeavor undertaken by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) located in different nations and academic institutions spanning Australia, India, Singapore, and the USA. We were four of the twenty-six participants who met in Singapore in June 2024 for the four-day “STS School” sponsored by Science, Technology, & Human Values. The organizers invited us to compose the School's closing plenary, where we spoke on new…
Back at the Kitchen Table
This intervention is a record of a praxis of conversing, restoring, and repairing what has been ongoing between us – four early-career women of color (WOC) academics – for several years. Necessarily reductive, this praxis could be called a “conversation,” standing in for engagements both regular and flexible, transnational, on screens, over meals, an emotional space, an intellectual space, a site of support and resistance. We have called these co…
Necrocapitalism in the Gig Economy
Although recent deaths of multiple couriers on the road have raised awareness of the dangers of on‐demand food delivery, there remains limited government regulation of the industry in many jurisdictions. In this article, we argue that the labour conditions of platform couriers in Australia constitute a case of necrocapitalism (Banerjee), a contemporary form of accumulation through which organisational structures harness the power of debilitation …
Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence
Public demands for greater police accountability, particularly in relation to violence targeting Black and Brown communities, have placed pressure on law enforcement organisations to be more transparent about officers’ actions. The implementation of police body-worn cameras (BWCs) has become a popular response. This article examines the embrace of BWCs amidst the wider shift toward evidence-based policing by scrutinising the body of research that…
Whiteness in and through data protection
This article analyses apps and artificial intelligence chatbots designed to offer survivors of sexual violence with emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Demonstrating how these technologies both confront and constitute forms of oppression, this analysis complicates assumptions about data protection through an intersectional feminist examination of these digital tools. In surveying differe…
Financialization and Welfare Surveillance
In light of concerns that the technologies employed by the digital welfare state exacerbate inequality and oppression, this article considers contemporary shifts in the administration of social assistance. Specifically, it examines the surveillance of recipients of government income support focusing on marginalized peoples in two jurisdictions: social security recipients subject to the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) in Australia, many of whom are Indi…
The Datafication of #MeToo
This article illustrates how racial capitalism can enhance understandings of data, capital, and inequality through an in-depth study of digital platforms used for intervening in gender-based violence. Specifically, we examine an emergent sociotechnical strategy that uses software platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to offer users emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Our an…
Necrocapitalism in the Gig Economy
Although recent deaths of multiple couriers on the road have raised awareness of the dangers of on‐demand food delivery, there remains limited government regulation of the industry in many jurisdictions. In this article, we argue that the labour conditions of platform couriers in Australia constitute a case of necrocapitalism (Banerjee), a contemporary form of accumulation through which organisational structures harness the power of debilitation …
The Datafication of #MeToo
This article illustrates how racial capitalism can enhance understandings of data, capital, and inequality through an in-depth study of digital platforms used for intervening in gender-based violence. Specifically, we examine an emergent sociotechnical strategy that uses software platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to offer users emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Our an…
Doing STS Now
The following editorial is a collaborative endeavor undertaken by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) located in different nations and academic institutions spanning Australia, India, Singapore, and the USA. We were four of the twenty-six participants who met in Singapore in June 2024 for the four-day “STS School” sponsored by Science, Technology, & Human Values. The organizers invited us to compose the School's closing plenary, where we spoke on new…
Back at the Kitchen Table
This intervention is a record of a praxis of conversing, restoring, and repairing what has been ongoing between us – four early-career women of color (WOC) academics – for several years. Necessarily reductive, this praxis could be called a “conversation,” standing in for engagements both regular and flexible, transnational, on screens, over meals, an emotional space, an intellectual space, a site of support and resistance. We have called these co…
Financialization and Welfare Surveillance
In light of concerns that the technologies employed by the digital welfare state exacerbate inequality and oppression, this article considers contemporary shifts in the administration of social assistance. Specifically, it examines the surveillance of recipients of government income support focusing on marginalized peoples in two jurisdictions: social security recipients subject to the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) in Australia, many of whom are Indi…
Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence
Public demands for greater police accountability, particularly in relation to violence targeting Black and Brown communities, have placed pressure on law enforcement organisations to be more transparent about officers’ actions. The implementation of police body-worn cameras (BWCs) has become a popular response. This article examines the embrace of BWCs amidst the wider shift toward evidence-based policing by scrutinising the body of research that…
Whiteness in and through data protection
This article analyses apps and artificial intelligence chatbots designed to offer survivors of sexual violence with emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Demonstrating how these technologies both confront and constitute forms of oppression, this analysis complicates assumptions about data protection through an intersectional feminist examination of these digital tools. In surveying differe…
Financialization and Welfare Surveillance
In light of concerns that the technologies employed by the digital welfare state exacerbate inequality and oppression, this article considers contemporary shifts in the administration of social assistance. Specifically, it examines the surveillance of recipients of government income support focusing on marginalized peoples in two jurisdictions: social security recipients subject to the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) in Australia, many of whom are Indi…
The Datafication of #MeToo
This article illustrates how racial capitalism can enhance understandings of data, capital, and inequality through an in-depth study of digital platforms used for intervening in gender-based violence. Specifically, we examine an emergent sociotechnical strategy that uses software platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to offer users emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Our an…
Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence
Public demands for greater police accountability, particularly in relation to violence targeting Black and Brown communities, have placed pressure on law enforcement organisations to be more transparent about officers’ actions. The implementation of police body-worn cameras (BWCs) has become a popular response. This article examines the embrace of BWCs amidst the wider shift toward evidence-based policing by scrutinising the body of research that…
Necrocapitalism in the Gig Economy
Although recent deaths of multiple couriers on the road have raised awareness of the dangers of on‐demand food delivery, there remains limited government regulation of the industry in many jurisdictions. In this article, we argue that the labour conditions of platform couriers in Australia constitute a case of necrocapitalism (Banerjee), a contemporary form of accumulation through which organisational structures harness the power of debilitation …
Back at the Kitchen Table
This intervention is a record of a praxis of conversing, restoring, and repairing what has been ongoing between us – four early-career women of color (WOC) academics – for several years. Necessarily reductive, this praxis could be called a “conversation,” standing in for engagements both regular and flexible, transnational, on screens, over meals, an emotional space, an intellectual space, a site of support and resistance. We have called these co…
Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon's digital humanitarian infrastructures
This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon's digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments related to biometric identification and automated poverty targeting, this article argues that humanitarian staff, refugee recipients and community members …
Colonial grids, exhausted bodies
Humanitarian crises reverberate globally, impacting basic yet essential infrastructures that sustain lives, especially energy infrastructures. This is true in Lebanon, where decades of conflict, refugee influxes, and corrupt government have exacerbated a state of prolonged polycrisis. Such conditions have led to unreliable, costly, and dysfunctional energy infrastructures that have stifled access to electricity and fuel across the country. Drawin…
Unblackboxing How Sociotemporalities Inform AI Accountability
In recent years, numerous accountability interventions have been introduced to address the harms and inequalities associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Early efforts concentrated on transparency and explainability, often operationalized as technical fixes intended to “open the black box” and render algorithmic processes more intelligible. However, sociological research has revealed the limitations of these interventions, particula…
Mechanisms of invisibility
Localisation refers to shifting the ownership and leadership of crisis response to local actors. Within the humanitarian sector, localisation has been framed as making aid delivery more reflective of needs on the ground, supporting more equitable structures, and addressing concerns of colonisation by Western-European actors operating in the Global South. In light of debates about ‘going local’, this article contributes to the literature on the ‘l…
Doing STS Now
The following editorial is a collaborative endeavor undertaken by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) located in different nations and academic institutions spanning Australia, India, Singapore, and the USA. We were four of the twenty-six participants who met in Singapore in June 2024 for the four-day “STS School” sponsored by Science, Technology, & Human Values. The organizers invited us to compose the School's closing plenary, where we spoke on new…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)