Critical Race Theory and Social Informatics: An Intersectional Engagement
Author(s)
Dunbar, Tony
Chancellor, Renate
Kumasi, Kafi
Grady, Siobahn Day
Gray, LaVerne
Contributor(s)
Sanfilippo, Madelyn
Issue Date
2022-10-29
Keyword(s)
Critical Race Theory
Social Informatics
Abstract
This panel will discuss and present an intersectional engagement of critical race theory (CRT) and social informatics (SI). The technocratic advances that permeate society at every level (macro, mezzo, and micro) require ongoing deconstruction, decolonization, demarginalization, and demystification of the influence and impact of information technologies. The current timing for such an intersectional critical race engagement comes in the wake of the racial awakening summer of 2020, which led to an interest convergence for racial justice along with the subsequent chilling of racial justice progress. Support for such an assertion can be clearly found within the early denotation of SI generated by Rob Kling and his close colleagues. Namely, “SI is the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technology that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts.” (Kling 1998, P. 52)
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 4rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology
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