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.

Fleur Johns is Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Fleur has held visiting appointments in Europe, the UK, the US, and Canada, and currently serves on a range of editorial boards, including those of the American Journal of International Law and the journal Technology and Regulation. She is a graduate of Melbourne University and Harvard University, and a member of the New York Bar.

• Chapter 1: Interfaces: New media of humanitarian relation


• Chapter 2: Maps: Historical snapshots and digital rewriting


• Chapter 3: Populations: From statistics to data science


• Chapter 4: Emergencies: Waiting and watching in the palliative present


• Chapter 5: States: Analogue and digital


• Chapter 6: Law and policy: Infrastructures of interface


• Chapter 7: Uses: Using, disusing and misusing digital humanitarian interfaces