Eliminating Racism in Education for Knowledge Organization and Library and Information Science: An Intercontinental Position Statement

Birdi, Briony; Dunbar, Anthony W.; Furner, Jonathan; Ibekwe-Sanjuan, Fidelia

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“…Algo similar ocurre con el racismo, y es por eso, que Birdi et al (2022) plantean eliminar el racismo en la educación de la organización del conocimiento y las ciencias de la información. Bullard, Dierking & Grundner (2020) hacen referencia al colectivo LGTBIQ+ y cómo el sistema de encabezamientos de materias se centra en hacer visibles temas y elementos de identidad invisibilizados por otros sistemas de organización del conocimiento.…”

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Representação Da Linguagem Inclusiva Sobre Deficiência Em Sistemas De Organização Do Conhecimento

Petroccelli Rodríguez

2023

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Representación del conocimiento es la subdisciplina dentro de la organización del conocimiento que se centra en los procesos de simbolización del conocimiento registrado en los documentos. A través de esos procesos, se codifican, tematizan y normalizan los contenidos para poder ser recuperados. Los sistemas de organización del conocimiento son creados siguiendo procedimientos y estándares dentro de la disciplina. Sin embargo, al ser producto del intelecto humano, presentan los sesgos de sus creadores, y en especial de su tiempo y espacio. En este marco se plantea como tema de investigación la indización temática de documentos referentes a personas con discapacidad. Esta investigación propone como objetivo, estudiar la representación a través del uso del lenguaje inclusivo en los sistemas de organización del conocimiento. Se considera apropiado aplicar una metodología exploratoria de corte cualitativa que conjugue métodos y técnicas utilizadas regularmente en el área de organización del conocimiento. Se aspira a brindar una definición clara de lo que se entiende por lenguaje inclusivo a través de la revisión de literatura. Exponer los conceptos existentes en los sistemas de organización del conocimiento utilizados para la clasificación temática respecto a discapacidad. Mostrar las distintas expresiones utilizadas en sistemas de organización del conocimiento como tesauros y listas controladas de términos. Para ello se eligieron por estar accesibles en línea y en idioma español, el Tesauro de la UNESCO, EUROVOC, OECD Macrothesaurus, y Tesauro SPINES. Como resultado de la investigación, se puede destacar la necesidad de que la información se encuentre actualizada para que el mediador de cualquier unidad de información tenga las herramientas inclusivas de consulta básica. La recuperación de información debe ser pertinente y satisfecha, es decir, precisa. El número de documentos recuperados que se consideran relevantes tiene que primar sobre el total del número de documentos recuperados. Se espera con esta investigación haber hecho una contribución orientada a los clasificacionistas que confeccionan tesauros y listas controladas de términos, para que los indizadores puedan transitar el proceso temático de documentos en sintonía con la terminología vigente y la sugerida por instituciones representativas de personas con discapacidad.

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Section: Lenguaje Inclusivo En Organización Del Conocimientounclassified

Representação Da Linguagem Inclusiva Sobre Deficiência Em Sistemas De Organização Do Conhecimento

Petroccelli Rodríguez

2023

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“…Applying interest convergence more specifically to IS shows that many information professionals have interest in racial justice not from a previous position of commitment to racial justice but rather, in many instances, from a moment of convergence within the momentum of international awareness of racial injustices magnified during the summer of 2020. Drawing from the literature, this particular type of IS interest convergence usually plays out in performative acts where each variation of the performative can be considered a react and respond approach (RRA) (Birdi, Dunbar, Furner, & Ibekwe, 2022) [6].…”

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Every information context is a CRiTical Race information Theory opportunity: informatic considerations for the information industrial complex

Dunbar

2023

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PurposeThis paper is an extension of a panel presentation delivered in response to a joint call for panels by the Social Informatics and Information Ethics and Policy Special Interest Groups for the 2022 Association for Information Science and Technology conference. The purpose is to introduce critical race frameworks and tenets as a lens to develop, assess and analyze the social informatics (SI) within information science (IS) research, professional discourse, praxis and pedagogical paradigms. This paper spotlights one of the presentations from that panel, an iteration of Critical Race Theory (CRT) designed specifically for information studies: CRiTical Race information Theory (CRiT).Design/methodology/approachJust as importantly, using SI as part of the context, the paper also includes a discussion that illustrates research and theory building possibilities as both counter and complement to the technocratic advances that permeate society at every level (macro, mezzo and micro), which can also be reasonably framed as the information industrial complex. Thus, CRiT joins other forms of critical discourse and praxis grappling with deconstructing, decolonizing, demarginalizing and demystifying the influence and impact of information technologies. While CRiT has global intentions and implications, this specific discussion has an extensive American focus.FindingsIf we consider the rapid pace in which techno-determinism is moving toward the vise grip of techno-fatalism controlled by frameworks generated from the information industrial complex, we can reasonably consider that humanity on a global basis is living within a meta-large technocratic crisis moment. This crisis moment is both acute and chronic. That is, the technocratic crisis is continuously moving quickly while simultaneously worsening over an extended period of time with no remedies and few responses to substantively address the crisis.Research limitations/implicationsPart of the nature of information and data is measurability. Thus, identifying compatible nomenclature connecting the descriptiveness of intersectionality (a seminal CRT tool) as a qualitative research method to the measurability of data connected to quantitative research, a mixed method approach moves from possible to plausible. Additionally, within IS, there are often opportunities to measure human engagement, such as social media content, search engine use, assessing practices of categorizations, and multiple forms of surveillance data as a short list. Hence, the descriptiveness of intersectional qualitative research “mixed” with the measurability of quantitative research within information settings implies exponential methodological possibilities.Practical implicationsCRiT is multilayered, on the one hand, with the intention of being a discipline-specific, information-specific form of CRT. On the other hand, CRiT theory building is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary based on information as omnipresent phenomena. An ongoing challenge for CRiT theory building is identifying and working within a balance between, practitioners who typically throw anything and everything at practical problems, while scholars often slice problems into such small segments that practical understanding is severely limited. Embracing and integrating the dynamic interplay between developing ideas and using them is the key to evolving CRiT within the social sciences.Social implicationsThere is plenty of room as well as a need for additional narrative discussing or challenging the use or appropriation of information from a technocratic approach, a counter to the information industrial complex.Originality/valueCRiT is emerging and cutting edge in discussion that addresses the technocratic determinism found in most scholarly discourses.

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“…Despite decades of declarations, actions, initiatives, and resolutions by national and international organisations to eradicate racism, it continues to thrive because it is embedded in the cultures, structures and institutions of dominant societies and civilisations. See (Furner et al, 2022); (Birdi et al, 2022) for a review of these declarations and for the state of anti-racist initiatives in LIS in the US and the UK.…”

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The whiteness of European Library and Information Science

Ibekwe-Sanjuan¹

2023

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Eliminating Racism in Education for Knowledge Organization and Library and Information Science: An Intercontinental Position Statement

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Representação Da Linguagem Inclusiva Sobre Deficiência Em Sistemas De Organização Do Conhecimento

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Every information context is a CRiTical Race information Theory opportunity: informatic considerations for the information industrial complex

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