Emergent realities such as the COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding “infodemic,” the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, climate catastrophe, and fake news, misinformation, disinformation, and so on challenge information researchers to reconsider the limitations and potential of the user-centered paradigm that has guided much library and information studies (LIS) research. In order to engage with these emergent realities, understanding who people are in terms of their social identities, social power, and as epistemic agents—that is, knowers, speakers, listeners, and informants—may provide insight into human information interactions. These are matters of epistemic injustice. Drawing heavily from Miranda Fricker's work Epistemic Injustice: Power & the Ethics of Knowing, I use the concept of epistemic injustice (testimonial, systematic, and hermeneutical injustice) to consider people as epistemic beings rather than “users” in order to potentially illuminate new understandings of the subfields of information behavior and information literacy. Focusing on people as knowers, speakers, listeners, and informants rather than “users” presents an opportunity for information researchers, practitioners, and LIS educators to work in service of the epistemic interests of people and in alignment with liberatory aims.

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新兴（信息）现实和认知上的不公正

诸如 COVID-19 大流行和相应的“信息流行病”、“黑人的命也是命”、气候灾难以及虚假新闻、错误信息、虚假信息等紧急现实挑战信息研究人员重新考虑以用户为中心的局限性和潜力指导了许多图书馆和信息研究 (LIS) 研究的范式。为了应对这些新出现的现实，了解人们在社会身份、社会权力和认知代理方面是谁——即知道者、说话者、听众和线人——可以提供对人类信息交互的洞察力。这些都是认知上的不公正问题。大量借鉴米兰达·弗里克 (Miranda Fricker) 的著作《认知不公正：权力与知识伦理》，我使用认知不公正（证明、系统和解释学不公正）的概念将人视为认知存在而不是“用户”，以潜在地阐明对信息行为和信息素养子领域的新理解。将人们作为认识者、演讲者、听众和线人而不是“用户”，为信息研究人员、实践者和 LIS 教育者提供了一个为人们的认知利益服务并与解放目标保持一致的机会。