Intro -- Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Interfaces: New Media of Humanitarian Relation -- 2. Maps: Historical Snapshots and Digital Rewriting -- 3. Populations: From Statistics to Data Science -- 4. Emergencies: Waiting and Watching in the Palliative Present -- 5. States: Analog and Digital -- 6. Law and Policy: Infrastructures of Interface -- 7. Uses: Using, Disusing, and Misusing Digital Humanitarian Interfaces -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Like many other areas of life, humanitarian practice and thinking are being transformed by information and communications technology. Despite this, the growing digitization of humanitarianism has been a relatively unnoticed dimension of global order. Based on more than seven years of data collection and interdisciplinary research, #Help presents a ground-breaking study of digital humanitarianism and its ramifications for international law and politics
