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This edited collection promises to “open up areas of inquiry into the relationship between representation, technology and human rights”(12). Technologies are broadly defined as the “tools, methods, channels and platforms” in which human rights and their claimants are represented or represent themselves in political legal scientific and cultural spheres. Representation is addressed as the set of “implicit and explicit rules for what counts as information.” Starting with these definitions, the editors assume the existence of a gap between the fields of human rights studies and the study of technology. The former field, the editors claim, has focused on the necessity and fallibility of different modes of witnessing, whereas the latter has focused on the problem of planning for volatile consequences with imperfect information. To bridge this gap, the purpose of the book “rests in the intersection of these conversations”(12) to …