TY - GEN
T1 - Getting ourselves together
T2 - 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
AU - Pierre, Jennifer
AU - Crooks, Roderic
AU - Currie, Morgan E.
AU - Paris, Britt S.
AU - Pasquetto, Irene V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/5/6
Y1 - 2021/5/6
N2 - Data-centered participatory design research projects-wherein researchers collaborate with community members for the purpose of gathering, generating, or communicating data about the community or their causes-can place epistemic burdens on minoritized or racialized groups, even in projects focused on social justice outcomes. Analysis of epistemic burden encourages researchers to rethink the purpose and value of data in community organizing and activism more generally. This paper describes three varieties of epistemic burden drawn from two case studies based on the authors' previous work with anti-police brutality community organizations. The authors conclude with a discussion of ways to alleviate and avoid these issues through a series of questions about participatory research design. Ultimately, we call for a reorientation of knowledge production away from putative design solutions to community problems and toward a more robust interrogation of the power dynamics of research itself.
AB - Data-centered participatory design research projects-wherein researchers collaborate with community members for the purpose of gathering, generating, or communicating data about the community or their causes-can place epistemic burdens on minoritized or racialized groups, even in projects focused on social justice outcomes. Analysis of epistemic burden encourages researchers to rethink the purpose and value of data in community organizing and activism more generally. This paper describes three varieties of epistemic burden drawn from two case studies based on the authors' previous work with anti-police brutality community organizations. The authors conclude with a discussion of ways to alleviate and avoid these issues through a series of questions about participatory research design. Ultimately, we call for a reorientation of knowledge production away from putative design solutions to community problems and toward a more robust interrogation of the power dynamics of research itself.
KW - Critical/activism/ethics
KW - Participatory design
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U2 - 10.1145/3411764.3445103
DO - 10.1145/3411764.3445103
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106677931
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 8 May 2021 through 13 May 2021
ER -