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Jenna Imad Harb
Jenna Imad Harb

Jenna Imad Harb is a PhD candidate at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in legal studies and business, as well as a Master’s degree in sociology—both from the University of Waterloo.
Jenna also completed three years of a PhD before transferring to RegNet under the Australian Government Research Training Program International Scholarship. Her research areas of interest are surveillance, science and technology studies (STS), social assistance, and social justice. Guided by insights from regulatory studies, STS, and critical humanitarian studies, Jenna’s dissertation examines how social assistance and humanitarian aid are being delivered in Lebanon.
Given sustained crises in Lebanon—such as economic collapse, divisive politics, COVID-19, and the aftermath of the explosion in Beirut—her research tracks how social welfare systems have adapted to challenges over time. Of particular interest, Jenna seeks to understand how technologies and digitalization contribute to relief efforts for in-need populations in the Middle East.
Publications:
Harb, J., & Henne, K. (2019). Disinformation and Resistance in the Surveillance of Indigenous Protesters. In B. Haggart, K. Henne, & N. Tusikov (Eds.), Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Shifting Power Structures in the 21st Century (pp. 187–211). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Harb, J. (2020). Review of Lewis’ Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America. Surveillance & Society, 18(1), 121-123.
Henne, K., & Harb, J. (2020). Reading Body-Worn Cameras as Multiple: A Reconsideration of Entities as Enactments. In B.C. Newell (Ed.), Policing on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Police Accountability. London: Routledge (in press).
Supervisor:

Where privacy meets power: questions of data & racial inequality
Data are often understood as self-evident reflections of the world, even though there is growing evidence of how data-driven practices can have racially discriminatory outcomes.

Body cams alone not enough to prevent police violence
Experts are calling for broader police reforms after new analysis from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Waterloo in Canada raised serious que

Apps against sexual violence have been tried before. They don’t work - Kate Henne and PhD Scholar Jenna Harb
There’s been important criticisms of reporting consent through a #consentapp. Our ANURegNet
Current

Mapping the Digital Welfare State
This project examines how technologies, such as biometrics, predictive algorithms and risk assessments, are increasingly used in the context of social assistance provision and regulation.
Completed

Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World
The collaborative project explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic and social power.

Author(s): Harb, Jenna, Henne, Kathryn
Date of publications: 2021
Publication type: Book chapter

Author(s): Henne, Kathryn, Harb, Jenna
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Book chapter

Author(s): Henne, Kathryn, Shore, Krystle, Harb, Jenna
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Report

Author(s): Harb, Jenna
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Book Review