human rights – Looks Like New https://lookslikenew.net The show that asks old questions about new technology, produced by the Media Economies Design Lab at CU Boulder. Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:54:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lookslikenew.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LooksLikeNew-5-150x150.png human rights – Looks Like New https://lookslikenew.net 32 32 Can Blockchains Stop War Crimes? https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/looks-like-new-can-blockchains-stop-war-crimes/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:50:22 +0000 https://news.kgnu.org/?p=57268 ]]> These days it seems like cryptocurrencies and blockchains are mostly enabling abuses: speculative bubbles, malware attacks, and money laundering for rogue states. But could the same technology also hold powerful governments and corporations accountable?

Jonathan Dotan directs the Starling Lab at Stanford University and USC, which uses emerging cryptographic technology to document human rights abuses, from the Holocaust to the current war in Ukraine. Dotan explains how his lab leverages tools usually associated with money and finance to preempt misinformation in the fog of war.

]]> Which images count as evidence? https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/looks-like-new-which-images-count-as-evidence/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:46:21 +0000 https://news.kgnu.org/?p=42153 ]]> We are haunted and mobilized by images. The cellphone video of George Floyd’s death has set cities on fire, elevated Black struggles for justice, and reminded White Americans of violence that their society is organized to blind them to. We hear from Sandra Ristovska, a scholar and filmmaker at the University of Colorado Boulder who specializes in video evidence of human rights crimes. She explores the meaning of images in courts and social movements around the world.

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