Operationalizing Theories and Methods to Integrate Social Justice in LIS Scholarship

Abstract

Editorial

Combatting Health Information Injustices for Community-based Health Promotion: A Curricular Outline

“…MLIS programs advance dominant interests via neutrality discourses 2021), adherence to "science-technology" and "business-management" models (Pawley, 2006), and the absence of diverse voices within syllabi (Gibson et al, 2018) among other practices. Courses addressing working with diverse populations often advance deficit-based narratives envisioning people experiencing marginalization as "needing" or "lacking" expert intervention from librarians (Mehra & Gray, 2020).…”

“…Courses addressing working with diverse populations often advance deficit-based narratives envisioning people experiencing marginalization as "needing" or "lacking" expert intervention from librarians (Mehra & Gray, 2020). Calls for curricular changes center on critical and justiceoriented approaches providing students with practical, ethical, and theoretical foundations to confront oppression (Gibson & Hughes-Hassell, 2017;Mehra et al, 2018;Mehra, 2021).…”

The Digitally Disposed—Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value. SebFranklin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 280 pp. $27.00 (paperback). (ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐0715‐0)

“…Their intellectual productivities must integrate, propose, and enact change that makes a difference in the everyday lives of people who experience imbalanced power inequities (Cooke et al, 2016; Cooke & Sweeney, 2017). In recent years, we have even seen scientists from disciplines across the natural “hard” sciences articulate their positivist and postpositivist research in terms of language that is more accessible, and, outcomes that are more relevant to lay citizens outside the bastions of the academy, as they extended themselves to make an impact and generate greater value of their research products (Mehra, 2021e). So is true for social scientists and scholars in varied disciplines of the humanities, such as Franklin, who need to connect their theories and methods to actions and change in dismantling the imbalanced power certainties they discuss.…”

Research & Teaching Assistant: Jalan Lain Kuliah Gratis ke USA Selain dengan Beasiswa

“…Bahkan, dalam kebijakan APBN 2020 pendidikan menjadi salah satu fokusnya. Dalam kebijakan tersebut dinyatakan bahwa bidang pendidikan diberikan keluasan akses pendidikan serta peningkatan keterampilan dalam wujud beasiswa atau bantuan operasional untuk seluruh jenjang, mulai usia dini hingga dewasa (Mehra, 2021) (Perna & Leigh, 2018).…”