The Dag Hammarskjöld Library of the United Nations and the United Nations Academic Impact, present as part of the Insight Keynote series, the keynote lecture by Dr. Safiya U. Noble. The title of her presentation will be Toward an Ethic of Social Justice in Information.
The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics, and in the service of something — a position, a profit motive, a means to an end. In this talk, Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss the importance of the academic-activist library community to offer models of intervention and resistance through research, practice, and teaching. Her research examines the linkages to power struggles over representation on the web and in the digital library, and the consequences of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search.
The event will take place on 9 December 2021. For more information and to access the registration form, click here.
