Recent work

Some research involvements:

Academic publications:

  • McClearn, J., 2024. Arabic glitch: technoculture, data bodies, and archives: by Laila Shereen Sakr, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2023, 180 pp., $26.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781503635883. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23738871.2024.2377668

  • McClearn, J., Jensen, R.B. and Talhouk, R., 2024. Security Patchworking in Lebanon: Infrastructuring Across Failing Infrastructures. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), pp.1-26. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3637397

  • McClearn, J., Jensen, R.B. and Talhouk, R., 2023. Othered, silenced and scapegoated: Understanding the situated security of marginalised populations in lebanon. In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23) (pp. 4625-4642). https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity23-mcclearn.pdf

  • Abu-Salma, R., Talhouk, R., Such, J., Aradau, C., Meloni, F., He, S., Ahmed, S.I., Ekmekcioglu, C., Sabie, D., Jensen, R.B. and McClearn, J., 2023, April. Diverse Migration Journeys and Security Practices: Engaging with Longitudinal Perspectives of Migration and (Digital) Security. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544549.3573800

Other publications:

  • Re-thinking Cyber Security Capacity Building. Available at: https://bindinghook.com/articles-hooked-on-trends/re-thinking-cybersecurity-capacity-building/

  • Running Away From Writing, or Inching Closer to Completion. Available at: https://substack.com/@phddays/p-141252198

  • Beyond the Usual Suspects: Latin American Cyber Security available at: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/49809399/DSLA_03_23_Beyond_the_Usual_Suspects.pdf

Groups:

Talks:

Other Engagements:

  • Participatory Innovation Workshops: Technical Recommendations for Human Rights Protection in Smart Healthcare and Government at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, September 2024.

  • Trust & Safety in the Majority World at Harvard University, April 2024.

  • Ethics Toolkit Development Consultation, Stanford University, 2024.

  • Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future, September 2023.

  • Rights Con Young Leaders, Costa Rica, 2023.

  • Future of Telecoms Consultation - UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2022.

  • Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme, 2022.


Reviewing:

  • CHI 2024

  • IEEE S&P Europe 2023