Slides from my keynote address at FIRE - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Radically Reorienting Information Retrieval Research to Resist Corporate and Authoritarian Capture of our Information Ecosystems". #FIRE2025

https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emancipatory-ir-fire2026.pptx

BREAKING: Today, at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, we announced a partnership between #FIRE2025 and #IRRJ. There will be an IRRJ special issue on FIRE! 🔥 More information to be shared here soon.