Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices".
Slides: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emancipatory-ir-sigir2026-keynote.pptx
I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic.
A thread. 🧵
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