ABSTRACT
Social media presents a huge opportunity to advance human rights work; it also can interfere with it and even harm it. In this exploratory chapter, I will argue that what might be seen as one of its deficits can in fact contain a hidden benefit. But before I launch into the main part of my argument, it is important to distinguish my comments about social media and its potential to forward human rights activism from the common ways social media has been seen to facilitate political activism. Here I argue that the two projects are very different.
