Gabrielle Lim
Doctoral Fellow
Gabrielle Lim is a doctoral fellow at the Citizen Lab and a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Toronto. She researches information technology and international security, with a focus on cyber and outer space. More specifically, she looks at how technology affects conflict and global governance. In addition, she researches the intersection of technology and human rights, focusing on censorship and media manipulation. Previously, she was a researcher with the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center and an Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellow.
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Publications
Avoiding the Kitchen Sink
A Guide to Mixed Methods Approaches Within Digital Rights Governance
Citizen Lab’s Gabrielle Lim, Noura Aljizawi, Shaila Baran, and Nicola Lawford recently published an article in Internet Policy Review on the methodology of digital rights governance research. Through a scoping review of 141 articles, the authors assess the relationship between interdisciplinary scholarship and single-, multi-, and mixed methods research. They find that interdisciplinary work is […]
True Costs of Misinformation
The Global Spread of Misinformation Laws
In the past decade, we have seen a significant shift in how governments talk about misinformation. Many countries now consider or intentionally frame misinformation as a matter of national security or public safety in order to justify the passage of new laws that impose penalties for the spread of information deemed false or other administrative […]
No Escape
The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression
Drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders originating from 24 countries of origin and residing in 23 host countries, we examine how gender and sexuality play a central role in digital transnational repression.
