Information Access of the Oppressed: Freirean Design for Emancipatory Information Access
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| author | Mitra, Bhaskar Neophytou, Nicola Gururaja, Sireesh |
| author_facet | Mitra, Bhaskar Neophytou, Nicola Gururaja, Sireesh |
| contents | Online information access (IA) platforms are targets of authoritarian capture. We explore the question of how to safeguard our platforms and ensure emancipatory outcomes through the lens of Paulo Freire's theories of emancipatory pedagogy. Freire's theories provide a radically different lens for exploring IA's sociotechnical concerns relative to the current dominating frames of fairness, accountability, and transparency. We make explicit, with the intention to challenge, the technologist-user dichotomy in IA platform development that mirrors the teacher-student relation in Freire's analysis. By extending Freire's analysis to IA, we critique the technologists-as-liberator frame where it is the burden of (altruistic) technologists to mitigate the risks of emerging technologies for marginalized communities. Instead, we advocate for Freirean Design whose goal is to structurally expose the platform for co-option and co-construction by community members in aid of their emancipatory struggles. |
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| spellingShingle | Information Access of the Oppressed: Freirean Design for Emancipatory Information Access Mitra, Bhaskar Neophytou, Nicola Gururaja, Sireesh Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction Information Retrieval Online information access (IA) platforms are targets of authoritarian capture. We explore the question of how to safeguard our platforms and ensure emancipatory outcomes through the lens of Paulo Freire's theories of emancipatory pedagogy. Freire's theories provide a radically different lens for exploring IA's sociotechnical concerns relative to the current dominating frames of fairness, accountability, and transparency. We make explicit, with the intention to challenge, the technologist-user dichotomy in IA platform development that mirrors the teacher-student relation in Freire's analysis. By extending Freire's analysis to IA, we critique the technologists-as-liberator frame where it is the burden of (altruistic) technologists to mitigate the risks of emerging technologies for marginalized communities. Instead, we advocate for Freirean Design whose goal is to structurally expose the platform for co-option and co-construction by community members in aid of their emancipatory struggles. |
| title | Information Access of the Oppressed: Freirean Design for Emancipatory Information Access |
| topic | Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09600 |