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Gracen Brilmyer
Wed, Nov 17, 2021 7:36 PM
Dear SDS Friends,
A gentle reminder to please consider submitting to the call for abstracts
for a special issue of First Monday, due January 5!
Call for abstracts for First Monday: This Feature Has Been Disabled
http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/call-for-abstracts-for-special-issue/
Call for Papers
This Feature Has Been Disabled:
Critical intersections of disability and information studies
Special issue editors: Gracen Brilmyer and Crystal Lee
Submission form: This Feature Has Been Disabled CFP
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4NItn-evBrebB_QnsW_Rilnw498EttZmtsj7twLrOf-jF-g/viewform?usp=sf_link
Key Dates:
– Abstracts due: January 5, 2022
– Invitations to submit full papers: January 15, 2022
– Full papers due: May 15, 2022
– Estimated publication: January 2023
Within the context of information studies—a broad field which spans
archives, libraries, and their histories to databases, algorithms, and
interface design—disability is often framed as an issue for legal
compliance rather than a topic of ongoing practice and scholarly
interrogation. Yet, centering disabled people’s voices and leveraging
critical disability studies as methodology within the construction of
information systems can sharpen analyses of the design of information
systems, algorithmic decision-making technologies, and their impacts on
marginalized communities. Alternatively, information systems and
technologies often mediate disabled people’s daily lives—from the assistive
tech we use, the ways we connect through online communities and hybrid
spaces, and the ways we research and understand our histories—thus granular
attention to the ways in which such systems operate is likewise crucial.
For a proposed special issue of First Monday, a monthly peer-reviewed open
access academic journal, we seek to address disability and information
systems through their materiality, methods, representation, technological
specificities, lived embodiments, pedagogies -- the historical to
contemporary. We aim to bring together dual perspectives from Disability
Studies and Information Studies in order to foster nuanced conversations at
this nexus. We aim to bring together thinkers from both fields —
particularly those who are disabled themselves — to map critical histories
and speculative futures for information science that are informed by
critical discussions in disability justice and design justice.
We explicitly ask for a range of contributions — first-person narratives,
theoretical and practical scholarship, and case studies — that address the
vast topics within the fields of Information Studies and Disability
Studies, including interdisciplinary research, co-authored papers, and
non-traditional scholarly articles. We are interested in work that attends
to disability spanning all subdisciplines of information studies: the
historical to the technological, analog to digital systems, individual
craft practice to institutional analyses. How might centering disabled
voices and disability studies frameworks as ways of knowing change the
field of information studies? Similarly, how might nuanced attention to
information systems change the ways we understand their interactions with
disabled people and people from other marginalized and oppressed
communities?
To be considered for inclusion in this special issue, please send an
extended abstract (300-500 words) plus a short bio (150-200 words) to this
form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4NItn-evBrebB_QnsW_Rilnw498EttZmtsj7twLrOf-jF-g/viewform
by January 5, 2022. Authors with selected abstracts will be notified by
January 15 and invited to submit their full paper drafts by May 15, 2022,
and the submissions will be published pending peer review.
We explicitly and intentionally invite authors who do not hold academic
positions or specific academic degrees - particularly authors who are
primarily advocates, activists, community organizers, programmers, and
cultural workers - to submit abstracts. This special issue will foreground
critical disability studies work and knowledge production that takes place
both within and outside of the academy, and aims to center disabled people
whose work may not be traditionally considered academic or scholarly.
Possible themes of accepted papers might include (but are not limited to):
The violence of knowledge organization and the historical ties between
ableism, racism, sexism, sanism, homophobia, fatphobia, classism,
caste-based oppression, and colonialism in such classificatory systems
Crip hacking, tinkering, and inventing technological interventions for
crip futures
Disabled people as tech workers, tech work as debilitating, and other
issues around labor
Surveillance, biometrics, policing, and incarceration of “anomalous”
bodyminds
Balancing information privacy, information access, and intellectual
property regarding disability narratives
Digital colonialism and accessibility for Indigenous disabled *archival
users *
Radical interventions to accessible interface design and collective
access
Changing role of the library as community center, as laboratory, and as
platform and the impacts on disabled patrons
Internet access and historical and ongoing injustice for disabled people
Information infrastructure and materiality as it impacts both disabled
people and the environment
Teaching and use of adaptive technologies in libraries, archives, and
museums
Academic ableism, information access, and crip time
Algorithmic impacts on disabled people of color
Artificial intelligence and the ways eugenic logics are encoded into
machine learning systems
Crip relationships to apps, assistive technologies, or social media
Sign language gloves, smart glasses, social skills robots,
stair-climbing wheelchairs, and other curative/therapized technologies
(or disability dongles) built to “eliminate” or “solve the problem" of
disability
The unique histories and ethnographies of speech-to-text and other
technologies that began for disabled use and evolved into everyday
products
Disabled approaches to linked data and community knowledge
Search and information retrieval for materials on disability
Tacit knowledge for multiply marginalized disabled people
Databases, metadata, and describing disabled identities within
information systems
Information law and policy as it intersects with disability privacy and
technology use
Medical forms, databases and medical triage
Health data and quantified self for wheelchair/cane/walker/mobility aid
users
Structural barriers to immigration / asylum for disabled people via
quantification
within medical inadmissibility policies
Access-washing in marketing, development, and promotion of products,
systems, and technologies that address inaccessibility while furthering
eugenic, carceral, or colonial logics, policies, and practices (such as
object and image recognition and facial recognition technologies)
Gracen Brilmyer, PhD
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
McGill University
gracenbrilmyer.com
McGill University is situated on the traditional territory of the
Kanien’kehà:ka, a place which has long served as a site of meeting and
exchange amongst nations. We recognize and respect the Kanien’kehà:ka as
the traditional custodians of the lands and waters.
Dear SDS Friends,
A gentle reminder to please consider submitting to the call for abstracts
for a special issue of *First Monday*, due January 5!
Call for abstracts for *First Monday*: This Feature Has Been Disabled
<http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/call-for-abstracts-for-special-issue/>
Call for Papers
This Feature Has Been Disabled:
*Critical intersections of disability and information studies*
Special issue editors: Gracen Brilmyer and Crystal Lee
*Submission form:* This Feature Has Been Disabled CFP
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4NItn-evBrebB_QnsW_Rilnw498EttZmtsj7twLrOf-jF-g/viewform?usp=sf_link>
*Key Dates:*
– Abstracts due: January 5, 2022
– Invitations to submit full papers: January 15, 2022
– Full papers due: May 15, 2022
– Estimated publication: January 2023
Within the context of information studies—a broad field which spans
archives, libraries, and their histories to databases, algorithms, and
interface design—disability is often framed as an issue for legal
compliance rather than a topic of ongoing practice and scholarly
interrogation. Yet, centering disabled people’s voices and leveraging
critical disability studies as methodology within the construction of
information systems can sharpen analyses of the design of information
systems, algorithmic decision-making technologies, and their impacts on
marginalized communities. Alternatively, information systems and
technologies often mediate disabled people’s daily lives—from the assistive
tech we use, the ways we connect through online communities and hybrid
spaces, and the ways we research and understand our histories—thus granular
attention to the ways in which such systems operate is likewise crucial.
For a proposed special issue of First Monday, a monthly peer-reviewed open
access academic journal, we seek to address disability and information
systems through their materiality, methods, representation, technological
specificities, lived embodiments, pedagogies -- the historical to
contemporary. We aim to bring together dual perspectives from Disability
Studies and Information Studies in order to foster nuanced conversations at
this nexus. We aim to bring together thinkers from both fields —
particularly those who are disabled themselves — to map critical histories
and speculative futures for information science that are informed by
critical discussions in disability justice and design justice.
We explicitly ask for a range of contributions — first-person narratives,
theoretical and practical scholarship, and case studies — that address the
vast topics within the fields of Information Studies and Disability
Studies, including interdisciplinary research, co-authored papers, and
non-traditional scholarly articles. We are interested in work that attends
to disability spanning all subdisciplines of information studies: the
historical to the technological, analog to digital systems, individual
craft practice to institutional analyses. How might centering disabled
voices and disability studies frameworks as ways of knowing change the
field of information studies? Similarly, how might nuanced attention to
information systems change the ways we understand their interactions with
disabled people and people from other marginalized and oppressed
communities?
To be considered for inclusion in this special issue, please send an
extended abstract (300-500 words) plus a short bio (150-200 words) to this
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4NItn-evBrebB_QnsW_Rilnw498EttZmtsj7twLrOf-jF-g/viewform>
by January 5, 2022. Authors with selected abstracts will be notified by
January 15 and invited to submit their full paper drafts by May 15, 2022,
and the submissions will be published pending peer review.
We explicitly and intentionally invite authors who do not hold academic
positions or specific academic degrees - particularly authors who are
primarily advocates, activists, community organizers, programmers, and
cultural workers - to submit abstracts. This special issue will foreground
critical disability studies work and knowledge production that takes place
both within and outside of the academy, and aims to center disabled people
whose work may not be traditionally considered academic or scholarly.
Possible themes of accepted papers might include (but are not limited to):
-
The violence of knowledge organization and the historical ties between
ableism, racism, sexism, sanism, homophobia, fatphobia, classism,
caste-based oppression, and colonialism in such classificatory systems
-
Crip hacking, tinkering, and inventing technological interventions for
crip futures
-
Disabled people as tech workers, tech work as debilitating, and other
issues around labor
-
Surveillance, biometrics, policing, and incarceration of “anomalous”
bodyminds
-
Balancing information privacy, information access, and intellectual
property regarding disability narratives
-
Digital colonialism and accessibility for Indigenous disabled *archival
users *
-
Radical interventions to accessible interface design and collective
access
-
Changing role of the library as community center, as laboratory, and as
platform and the impacts on disabled patrons
-
Internet access and historical and ongoing injustice for disabled people
-
Information infrastructure and materiality as it impacts both disabled
people and the environment
-
Teaching and use of adaptive technologies in libraries, archives, and
museums
-
Academic ableism, information access, and crip time
-
Algorithmic impacts on disabled people of color
-
Artificial intelligence and the ways eugenic logics are encoded into
machine learning systems
-
Crip relationships to apps, assistive technologies, or social media
-
Sign language gloves, smart glasses, social skills robots,
stair-climbing wheelchairs, and other curative/therapized technologies
(or disability dongles) built to “eliminate” or “solve the problem" of
disability
-
The unique histories and ethnographies of speech-to-text and other
technologies that began for disabled use and evolved into everyday
products
-
Disabled approaches to linked data and community knowledge
-
Search and information retrieval for materials on disability
-
Tacit knowledge for multiply marginalized disabled people
-
Databases, metadata, and describing disabled identities within
information systems
-
Information law and policy as it intersects with disability privacy and
technology use
-
Medical forms, databases and medical triage
-
Health data and quantified self for wheelchair/cane/walker/mobility aid
users
-
Structural barriers to immigration / asylum for disabled people via
quantification
within medical inadmissibility policies
-
Access-washing in marketing, development, and promotion of products,
systems, and technologies that address inaccessibility while furthering
eugenic, carceral, or colonial logics, policies, and practices (such as
object and image recognition and facial recognition technologies)
Gracen Brilmyer, PhD
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
McGill University
gracenbrilmyer.com
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McGill University is situated on the traditional territory of the
Kanien’kehà:ka, a place which has long served as a site of meeting and
exchange amongst nations. We recognize and respect the Kanien’kehà:ka as
the traditional custodians of the lands and waters.