Whose Knowledge is Valued?: Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications
arxiv(2024)
摘要
Social computing scholars have long known that people do not interact with
knowledge in straightforward ways, especially in digital environments. While
policies around knowledge are essential for targeting misinformation, they are
value-laden; in choosing how to present information, we undermine
non-traditional – often non-Western – ways of knowing. Epistemic injustice is
the systemic exclusion of certain people and methods from the knowledge canon.
Epistemic injustice chips away at one's testimony and vocabulary until they are
stripped of their due right to know and understand. In this paper, we
articulate how epistemic injustice in sociotechnical applications leads to
material harm. Inspired by a hybrid collaborative autoethnography of 14 CSCW
practitioners, we present three cases of epistemic injustice in sociotechnical
applications: online transgender healthcare, identity sensemaking on
r/bisexual, and Indigenous ways of knowing on r/AskHistorians. We further
explore signature tensions across our autoethnographic materials and relate
them to previous CSCW research areas and personal non-technological
experiences. We argue that epistemic injustice can serve as a unifying and
intersectional lens for CSCW research by surfacing dimensions of epistemic
community and power. Finally, we present a call to action of three changes the
CSCW community should make to move toward its own goals of research justice. We
call for CSCW researchers to center individual experiences, bolster
communities, and remediate issues of epistemic power as a means towards
epistemic justice. In sum, we recount, synthesize, and propose solutions for
the various forms of epistemic injustice that CSCW sites of study – including
CSCW itself – propagate.
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