2026-07-19
Justice, emancipation, democracy, and information access (JEDI): The SIGIR workshop on resisting corporate and authoritarian capture of information access platforms
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Information and access to information are both profoundly political; representing sites of tension between oppression and emancipation. However, information retrieval (IR) as a discipline has eschewed this notion that search systems are political, and issues related to social justice, emancipation, and democracy have been systematically excluded. We propose this workshop as a forum for IR researchers who are interested in exploring the role of computer-mediated information access in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and emancipation; and asking what changes we need in our current technological, organizational, and social arrangements in field to realize the desired alignment between IR research and our societal aspirations. This will be a highly interactive workshop employing collaborative and dialogical methods to make progress towards concrete artifacts like collectively workshopping a manifesto.
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| doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808651 | |
| SIGIR '26: The 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | |
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| Organisation | Human-Centered Data Analytics |
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Mitra, B., McKay, D., Ekstrand, M., Vrijenhoek, S.& Murray, M. (2026). Justice, emancipation, democracy, and information access (JEDI): The SIGIR workshop on resisting corporate and authoritarian capture of information access platforms. Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 5386–5389.https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808651 |
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