TY - GEN
T1 - A Higher Purpose
T2 - 17th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future, iConference 2022
AU - Tacheva, Jasmina
AU - Namvarrad, Sepideh
AU - Almissalati, Najla
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In today’s complex information environment, marked by deepening societal divides and growing inequality, issues of equity and justice are no longer the exclusive domain of the humanities and a handful of humanities-driven social scientists in the fields of information and technology. Instead, a growing number of researchers are seeking to make the intersection of information and technology on the one hand, and human flourishing and liberation, especially with respect to marginalized communities, on the other, the central focus of their teaching and research. Rather than trying to pigeon-hole these efforts as a distinct stream of research in the field of information and technology, this paper argues that centering questions of justice ought to be considered as the foundation of the field and therefore should permeate any epistemological agenda within in. To this end, we offer six actionable principles to help guide information researchers interested in justice-focused work which we refer to as social justice informatics.
AB - In today’s complex information environment, marked by deepening societal divides and growing inequality, issues of equity and justice are no longer the exclusive domain of the humanities and a handful of humanities-driven social scientists in the fields of information and technology. Instead, a growing number of researchers are seeking to make the intersection of information and technology on the one hand, and human flourishing and liberation, especially with respect to marginalized communities, on the other, the central focus of their teaching and research. Rather than trying to pigeon-hole these efforts as a distinct stream of research in the field of information and technology, this paper argues that centering questions of justice ought to be considered as the foundation of the field and therefore should permeate any epistemological agenda within in. To this end, we offer six actionable principles to help guide information researchers interested in justice-focused work which we refer to as social justice informatics.
KW - Critical theory
KW - Data justice
KW - Social justice informatics
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-96957-8_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-96957-8_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126229219
SN - 9783030969561
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 265
EP - 271
BT - Information for a Better World
A2 - Smits, Malte
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 28 February 2022 through 4 March 2022
ER -