Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
arxiv(2024)
摘要
Information retrieval (IR) technologies and research are undergoing
transformative changes. It is our perspective that the community should accept
this opportunity to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while
dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness,
accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research.
Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential
social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to
proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build
inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The
sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of
information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need
to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our
guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as
democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social
science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists,
and artists, among others. In this perspective paper, we motivate why the
community must consider this radical shift in how we do research and what we
work on, and sketch a path forward towards this transformation.
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