Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI

By Os Keyes, Josephine Hoy, Margaret Drouhard. 2019

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The HCI community has worked to expand and improve our consideration of the societal implications of our work and our corresponding responsibilities. Despite this increased engagement, HCI continues to lack an explicitly articulated politic, which we argue re-inscribes and amplifies systemic oppression. In this paper, we set out an explicit political vision of an HCI grounded in emancipatory autonomy-an anarchist HCI, aimed at dismantling all oppressive systems by mandating suspicion of and a reckoning with imbalanced distributions of power. We outline some of the principles and accountability mechanisms that constitute an anarchist HCI. We offer a potential framework for radically reorienting the field towards creating prefigurative counterpower-systems and spaces that exemplify the world we wish to see, as we go about building the revolution in increment.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “We therefore echo calls by Bardzell and Bardzell (2011), Keyes et al. (2019), and Green (2019) for researchers and practitioners to make their normative reasoning explicit by articulating the social values that underpin their decisions to deem some system behaviors as harmful, no matter how obvious…”
Do Datasets Have Politics? Disciplinary Values in Computer Vision Dataset Development (2021, neutral): “Bardzell social computing design frameworks which have explicitly embraced specific politics and values [8, 24, 65, 81] Particularly with its focus on real-world applications, the artifacts produced by machine learning researchers and practitioners — for example, in the form of datasets — are…”
Toward situated interventions for algorithmic equity: lessons from the field (2020, background): “More recent calls for an emancipatory HCI also affirm these value commitments [4, 15, 21, 39].”