It is increasingly in vogue to describe research as community-engaged, but the incentives of academia often misalign with the needs of communities that academics purport to serve. This leads to abusive and exploitative work under the guise of engagement. To address this probem involves more than …

Action-oriented researchers aim to design and evaluate how technology can be used to improve the lives of underserved populations around the globe. However, improvement is a value-laden concept with normative, causal, and methodological assumptions. As researchers, we should examine how different …