Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development

By Lilly C. Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, K. Philip, Rebecca E. Grinter. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction

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Better, Nicer, Clearer, Fairer: A Critical Assessment of the Movement for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (2019, background): “These efforts have been supplemented by critical work examining how design supports racialized, gendered, and colonialized hierarchies [38]-[40].”
The value of data: considering the context of production in data economies (2011, background): “…we do not believe that these are essentialized notions of cultural difference; rather, as will become clear when we discuss the case studies in turn, such “values” are only visible as they are generatively constructed through practice [22]. can be said to collaborate more or less than the other.”
Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI (2019, background): “Another approach, postcolonial HCI, is exempliﬁed by the works of Lilly Irani [78].”
Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (2022, neutral): “vides and entrenching systemic inequalities [114, 230].”
Next steps for value sensitive design (2012, background): “Questions of values in HCI seldom have single, definitive, “objective” answers [43,44].”
Beyond ethnography: engagement and reciprocity as foundations for design research out here (2014, background): “Taylor [22] echoes this calling for imagining computer systems that enrich and are founded upon local emergent practices [12].”
The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading? (2021, background): “There, Irani, Dourish et al. proposed the idea of ‘ postcolonial computing ’ as a way to think of ‘ the many ways histories, power relations, and epistem-ology tacitly underpin engagements in [computer system] design ’ (Irani et al. 2010).”
Towards a feminist HCI methodology: social science, feminism, and HCI (2011, background): “…this thread in HCI as well: these include ubiquitous computing [e.g., 51, 8], information communication technology for development (ICT4D) [e.g., 31], intimate interaction [46], sustainable interaction design [e.g., 6,14], HCI has shown a strong interest in recent years to participate in…”
Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design: Outlining Key Design Strategies and Commitments (2016, background): “Recent critiques have argued for the need to re-politicize design and engineering practices, especially in the ways that designers and researchers identify and frame problems [82], to rethink assumptions about what makes ‘poverty’ a thing to fix [66, 45], and to be wary of perpetuating already-uneve”
Deconstructing Community-Based Collaborative Design (2019, background): “colonialism is embedded in much of CSCW and HCI research that happens in the “developed world” although it is rarely accounted for [55].”
From Margins to Seams: Imbrication, Inclusion, and Torque in the Aadhaar Identification Project (2017, background): “Research on transnational HCI, postcolonial computing, and computing at the margins [1,13,19,33] has paid significant attention to the uneven transfer and appropriation of ICTD infrastructures.”
Addressing Age-Related Bias in Sentiment Analysis (2018, background): “There is a growing interest in issues of social justice in HCI, as evidenced by new frameworks and agendas [2,3,23,39,47,48,63,65] that attempt to shift power balances between researchers, society, and marginalized groups.”
Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence (2020, methodology): “To do so, we can draw from existing analysis of ICT for Development, which are often based on historical analysis and decolonial critique (Irani et al. 2010; Toyama 2015).”
Sociotechnical Harms: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (2022, background): “Algorithmic systems can increase “power imbalances in socio-economic relations” at the societal level [4, 118] (p. 182), including through exacerbating digital divides and entrenching systemic inequalities [96, 204].”