TY - GEN
T1 - The politics of titling
T2 - 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018
AU - Kou, Yubo
AU - Gray, Colin M.
AU - Toombs, Austin
AU - Nardi, Bonnie
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PY - 2018/4/20
Y1 - 2018/4/20
N2 - For decades, HCI scholars have studied technological systems and their relationship to particular contexts and user groups. Increasingly, this scholarship is dependent not only on localized contexts, but also the relationship of local contexts to the global stage, drawing on approaches such as ICT4D and cross-cultural design. In this paper, we examine authors’ descriptions of study contexts, particularly country information, in paper titles and texts in the CHI Proceedings from 2013 to 2017. We found strikingly different patterns of titling between studies of Western and non-Western countries, including whether and how country names are mentioned in titles, and the precision when describing study contexts. Drawing on critical theories, we analyze how the politics of titling at CHI functions to build categories of “normal” and “exotic.” We explicate the problems that the current ways of representation bring to knowledge production at CHI, and necessary paths to move forward.
AB - For decades, HCI scholars have studied technological systems and their relationship to particular contexts and user groups. Increasingly, this scholarship is dependent not only on localized contexts, but also the relationship of local contexts to the global stage, drawing on approaches such as ICT4D and cross-cultural design. In this paper, we examine authors’ descriptions of study contexts, particularly country information, in paper titles and texts in the CHI Proceedings from 2013 to 2017. We found strikingly different patterns of titling between studies of Western and non-Western countries, including whether and how country names are mentioned in titles, and the precision when describing study contexts. Drawing on critical theories, we analyze how the politics of titling at CHI functions to build categories of “normal” and “exotic.” We explicate the problems that the current ways of representation bring to knowledge production at CHI, and necessary paths to move forward.
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U2 - 10.1145/3170427.3188409
DO - 10.1145/3170427.3188409
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052026515
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 April 2018 through 26 April 2018
ER -