Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures

B Mitra - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17901, 2024 - arxiv.org
Information retrieval (IR) technologies and research are undergoing transformative changes.
It is our perspective that the community should accept this opportunity to re-center our …

Understanding the Resilience of Caste: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Community Profiles on X

N Kirasur, S Jhaver - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02810, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite decades of anti-caste efforts, sociocultural practices that marginalize lower-caste
groups in India remain resilient and have even proliferated with the use of social media. This …

Reimagining Communities through Transnational Bengali Decolonial Discourse with YouTube Content Creators

D Das, D Gandhi, B Semaan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13131, 2024 - arxiv.org
Colonialism--the policies and practices wherein a foreign body imposes its ways of life on
local communities--has historically impacted how collectives perceive themselves in relation …