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:
Co-Founder - Digital Security in Latin America Research Group (DSLA)
Co-Founder - Ethnography Group in the Information Security Groupe
Cyber & Democracy Working Group - All Tech is Human
University Board - All Tech is Human
Talks:
‘Security Patchworking in Lebanon: Infrastructuring Across Failing Infrastructures.’ ACM CSCW, October 2024.
‘Spaces for Dialogue and Design: Imagining security futures with female social leaders and conflict victims in Cauca, Colombia.’ ReCap Workshop at Tufts University, May 2024.
‘Security Patchworking; Making the (in)security of failing socio-technical infrastructures visible.’ Digital Civics Exchange at Northumbria University, May 2024.
‘Construyendo alianza con un Popayán incluyente por una paz positiva con las víctimas.’ Comemoración del día de las Víctimas del conflicto armado, Popayán, Colombia, Abril 2024.
‘Othered, Silenced and Scapegoated: Understanding the Situated Security of Marginalised Populations in Lebanon.’ USENIX Security, California, August 2023.
‘Cyber Security Campaigns to reach University Students.’ Academia & CyberFirst Education Ecosystem Conference, UK National Cyber Security Center, March 2022.
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