提出用批判理论重构信息检索，以社会良善为指引。
Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices
- 引入批判理论框架，取代主流自由主义视角。
- 以'免于支配'为目标，明确社会良善的内涵。
- 适合关注伦理与社会影响的IR研究者参考。
半个世纪前，Belkin和Robertson呼吁建立理论基础，以理解何为社会良善，从而指导信息检索（IR）研究，并在面对与社会良善相悖的要求时决定何时限制科学探索。本文主张，为实现这一目标，IR应采纳批判理论与实践，摆脱当前社区普遍采用的主导性自由主义框架。与自由主义框架不同，批判框架明确将‘免于支配’作为其目标，有助于澄清领域内对社会良善的概念化，提供Belkin与Robertson所呼吁的必要理论支撑，并为评估我们推动所需社会变革的进展提供依据。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Belkin and Robertson urged us, half a century ago, to develop a theoretical foundation for understanding what constitutes societal good that can inform information retrieval (IR) research and serve as a basis for determining when we should limit our scientific inquiry in the face of demands that are contradictory to societal good. In this article, I argue that to achieve this, IR should embrace critical theories and practices in our work, and shift away from the dominant liberal frame through which much of the IR community today view societal concerns in context of our research. Unlike the liberal frame, the critical frame explicitly adopts nondomination as its stated goal which can clarify our conceptualization of societal good within the field, provide necessary theoretical underpinning that Belkin and Robertson urged the community to develop, and serve as a basis for critical appraisals of our progress in enacting desired societal change.
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