Call for Presentations
We are soliciting proposals for presentations from the community in the form of extended abstracts. Accepted proposals will have the opportunity to be presented at the workshop as either short talks and / or posters. Relevant presentations may explore questions like: How does the conflict between (i) democracy and authoritarianism, and (ii) emancipation and oppression play out across current information access practices?What role do current systems and practices of the information access field play in the conflict between (i) democracy and authoritarianism or (ii) emancipation and oppression? What practices can help us shift the field towards supporting social justice, emancipation, and democracy? How do we successfully proceed to challenge power and structures of oppression, going beyond just talking about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) in our communities and about fairness and bias in our systems?How do we move our community beyond just talking about DEI and fairness / bias, and towards actively challenging power and structures of oppression? How can we safeguard information ecosystems against authoritarian and corporate capture, and the public from mass surveillance and manipulation? What can the information access discipline learn from feminist, queer, decolonial, anti-racist, anti-casteist, anti-ableist, and abolitionist perspectives? How can information access push towards epistemic justice and safeguard marginalized perspectives and knowledge from erasure; and promote critical thought and sociopolitical awareness? How can we make visible and understand how information access facilitates collective sense-making, particularly those that remain implicit, and challenge normative sense-making? How should information access research situate itself in ongoing social justice movements struggles against oppression and authoritarianism and realize its work grounded in practices of organizing and movement building?
We particularly encourage submissions informed by cross-disciplinary perspectives and justice-oriented scholarship; and those situated in organizing and movement building for social justice.