Digital Action, Human Rights and Technology

Abstract

The more-than-real is remade in particular places and with specific human-technology relations. McLean draws on her experience at a conference on ‘Human Rights and Technology’ (2018) run by the Australian Human Rights Commission in this chapter. This narrative of the Conference shows how there is an increasing awareness of human rights issues arising from digital technologies and that some parts of the Australian government are pushing back against unconscious adoption of digital technologies. At the same time, discussions of environmental sustainability and the nuances of digital geographies beyond Artificial Intelligence are marginal in this context. The more-than-real can obscure nuance and collapse differences in the production of grand narratives about the potential threats from digital technologies.