The JEDI workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for researchers who are interested in critically interrogating the role of information access technology in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and emancipation from social, economic, and political oppression. Our goal is to realize information access as a force for justice, emancipation, and democracy, and safeguard our information ecosystems from authoritarian and corporate capture. This involves exploring necessary changes to our technological design, and our individual and institutional relationships (academic, industry, government, and civil society) that shape the field. As such, we welcome participants from all interested disciplines, including but not limited to law, social science, information science, human computer interaction, science and technology studies, critical theory, and of course information retrieval.
We are organizing our first workshop at SIGIR 2026, but have plans for more events!