{"id":446,"date":"2020-09-28T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/?p=446"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:55:59","slug":"poudyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/","title":{"rendered":"“Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?” – Bibhushana Poudyal"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,233,110,34,19,23,36],"tags":[206,77,111,193,27],"yoast_head":"\n"Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?" - Bibhushana Poudyal - SIGDOC Conference 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When digital archives are increasingly becoming a space for knowledge production, construction, consumption, maintenance, dissemination, and amplification, the necessary questions to be interrogated are: Who has access to write, participate, and construct pasts, memories, and collective public imaginations through these digital domains? How can the ones who have access to engage in epistemological performances through digital archives make these domains a space to deconstruct essentialized identity categories forced upon the Other by the (hetero)patriarchal and\/or imperial-colonial Self? And how can participatory design frameworks contribute to that? Triggered by these questions, my critical digital archival research project attempts at finding theories-praxes to make dialogic rooms in digital archives to build a relationship with historically, structurally, and\/or systematically minoritized communities and their distinctive, transitory, plural, and conjunctural narratives. This paper introduces my ongoing doctoral project of the critical digital archive where I am documenting and theorizing a digital archive of my street photography in Nepal that I am building through participatory design frameworks with South Asian communities. In this paper, I offer a look at how the complexities and obstacles faced during UX research can enable technical communicators to rupture the essentialist foundation of identity constructions of Non-Western communities. My paper aims to communicate the necessity of conducting UX research through participatory-design frameworks not only to find answers to design technology but to see a way of completely subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses through the \u201cfailure\u201d to find answers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?" - Bibhushana Poudyal - SIGDOC Conference 2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When digital archives are increasingly becoming a space for knowledge production, construction, consumption, maintenance, dissemination, and amplification, the necessary questions to be interrogated are: Who has access to write, participate, and construct pasts, memories, and collective public imaginations through these digital domains? How can the ones who have access to engage in epistemological performances through digital archives make these domains a space to deconstruct essentialized identity categories forced upon the Other by the (hetero)patriarchal and\/or imperial-colonial Self? And how can participatory design frameworks contribute to that? Triggered by these questions, my critical digital archival research project attempts at finding theories-praxes to make dialogic rooms in digital archives to build a relationship with historically, structurally, and\/or systematically minoritized communities and their distinctive, transitory, plural, and conjunctural narratives. This paper introduces my ongoing doctoral project of the critical digital archive where I am documenting and theorizing a digital archive of my street photography in Nepal that I am building through participatory design frameworks with South Asian communities. In this paper, I offer a look at how the complexities and obstacles faced during UX research can enable technical communicators to rupture the essentialist foundation of identity constructions of Non-Western communities. My paper aims to communicate the necessity of conducting UX research through participatory-design frameworks not only to find answers to design technology but to see a way of completely subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses through the \u201cfailure\u201d to find answers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SIGDOC Conference 2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-28T22:37:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-05T14:55:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"SIGDOC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@adamstrantz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"SIGDOC\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"SIGDOC\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/person\/dfe7e0b67f0f4fa8491050980755c2b1\"},\"headline\":\"“Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?” – Bibhushana Poudyal\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-28T22:37:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-05T14:55:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/\"},\"wordCount\":1132,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"archive\",\"design\",\"digital\",\"participatory\",\"ux\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Community\",\"Design for Community & Advocacy\",\"Digital Humanities and Design\",\"Participatory Research\",\"Research Paper\",\"Technical Communication\",\"User Experience\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?\\\" - Bibhushana Poudyal - SIGDOC Conference 2020\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-28T22:37:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-05T14:55:59+00:00\",\"description\":\"When digital archives are increasingly becoming a space for knowledge production, construction, consumption, maintenance, dissemination, and amplification, the necessary questions to be interrogated are: Who has access to write, participate, and construct pasts, memories, and collective public imaginations through these digital domains? How can the ones who have access to engage in epistemological performances through digital archives make these domains a space to deconstruct essentialized identity categories forced upon the Other by the (hetero)patriarchal and\/or imperial-colonial Self? And how can participatory design frameworks contribute to that? Triggered by these questions, my critical digital archival research project attempts at finding theories-praxes to make dialogic rooms in digital archives to build a relationship with historically, structurally, and\/or systematically minoritized communities and their distinctive, transitory, plural, and conjunctural narratives. This paper introduces my ongoing doctoral project of the critical digital archive where I am documenting and theorizing a digital archive of my street photography in Nepal that I am building through participatory design frameworks with South Asian communities. In this paper, I offer a look at how the complexities and obstacles faced during UX research can enable technical communicators to rupture the essentialist foundation of identity constructions of Non-Western communities. My paper aims to communicate the necessity of conducting UX research through participatory-design frameworks not only to find answers to design technology but to see a way of completely subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses through the \u201cfailure\u201d to find answers.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"“Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?” – Bibhushana Poudyal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/\",\"name\":\"SIGDOC Conference 2020\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#organization\",\"name\":\"SIGDOC Conference 2020\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/sigdoc-logo20-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/sigdoc-logo20-1.png\",\"width\":609,\"height\":376,\"caption\":\"SIGDOC Conference 2020\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/person\/dfe7e0b67f0f4fa8491050980755c2b1\",\"name\":\"SIGDOC\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/024cb8bf1d22d3c73cffcbba1de6bb3b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/024cb8bf1d22d3c73cffcbba1de6bb3b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"SIGDOC\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamstrantz\"],\"url\":\"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/author\/strantaw\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?\" - Bibhushana Poudyal - SIGDOC Conference 2020","description":"When digital archives are increasingly becoming a space for knowledge production, construction, consumption, maintenance, dissemination, and amplification, the necessary questions to be interrogated are: Who has access to write, participate, and construct pasts, memories, and collective public imaginations through these digital domains? How can the ones who have access to engage in epistemological performances through digital archives make these domains a space to deconstruct essentialized identity categories forced upon the Other by the (hetero)patriarchal and\/or imperial-colonial Self? And how can participatory design frameworks contribute to that? Triggered by these questions, my critical digital archival research project attempts at finding theories-praxes to make dialogic rooms in digital archives to build a relationship with historically, structurally, and\/or systematically minoritized communities and their distinctive, transitory, plural, and conjunctural narratives. This paper introduces my ongoing doctoral project of the critical digital archive where I am documenting and theorizing a digital archive of my street photography in Nepal that I am building through participatory design frameworks with South Asian communities. In this paper, I offer a look at how the complexities and obstacles faced during UX research can enable technical communicators to rupture the essentialist foundation of identity constructions of Non-Western communities. My paper aims to communicate the necessity of conducting UX research through participatory-design frameworks not only to find answers to design technology but to see a way of completely subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses through the \u201cfailure\u201d to find answers.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?\" - Bibhushana Poudyal - SIGDOC Conference 2020","og_description":"When digital archives are increasingly becoming a space for knowledge production, construction, consumption, maintenance, dissemination, and amplification, the necessary questions to be interrogated are: Who has access to write, participate, and construct pasts, memories, and collective public imaginations through these digital domains? How can the ones who have access to engage in epistemological performances through digital archives make these domains a space to deconstruct essentialized identity categories forced upon the Other by the (hetero)patriarchal and\/or imperial-colonial Self? And how can participatory design frameworks contribute to that? Triggered by these questions, my critical digital archival research project attempts at finding theories-praxes to make dialogic rooms in digital archives to build a relationship with historically, structurally, and\/or systematically minoritized communities and their distinctive, transitory, plural, and conjunctural narratives. This paper introduces my ongoing doctoral project of the critical digital archive where I am documenting and theorizing a digital archive of my street photography in Nepal that I am building through participatory design frameworks with South Asian communities. In this paper, I offer a look at how the complexities and obstacles faced during UX research can enable technical communicators to rupture the essentialist foundation of identity constructions of Non-Western communities. My paper aims to communicate the necessity of conducting UX research through participatory-design frameworks not only to find answers to design technology but to see a way of completely subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses through the \u201cfailure\u201d to find answers.","og_url":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/","og_site_name":"SIGDOC Conference 2020","article_published_time":"2020-09-28T22:37:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-10-05T14:55:59+00:00","author":"SIGDOC","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@adamstrantz","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"SIGDOC","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/"},"author":{"name":"SIGDOC","@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/person\/dfe7e0b67f0f4fa8491050980755c2b1"},"headline":"“Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?” – Bibhushana Poudyal","datePublished":"2020-09-28T22:37:08+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-05T14:55:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/"},"wordCount":1132,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#organization"},"keywords":["archive","design","digital","participatory","ux"],"articleSection":["Community","Design for Community & Advocacy","Digital Humanities and Design","Participatory Research","Research Paper","Technical Communication","User Experience"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/","url":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/","name":"\"Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?\" - Bibhushana Poudyal - SIGDOC Conference 2020","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-09-28T22:37:08+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-05T14:55:59+00:00","description":"When digital archives are increasingly becoming a space for knowledge production, construction, consumption, maintenance, dissemination, and amplification, the necessary questions to be interrogated are: Who has access to write, participate, and construct pasts, memories, and collective public imaginations through these digital domains? How can the ones who have access to engage in epistemological performances through digital archives make these domains a space to deconstruct essentialized identity categories forced upon the Other by the (hetero)patriarchal and\/or imperial-colonial Self? And how can participatory design frameworks contribute to that? Triggered by these questions, my critical digital archival research project attempts at finding theories-praxes to make dialogic rooms in digital archives to build a relationship with historically, structurally, and\/or systematically minoritized communities and their distinctive, transitory, plural, and conjunctural narratives. This paper introduces my ongoing doctoral project of the critical digital archive where I am documenting and theorizing a digital archive of my street photography in Nepal that I am building through participatory design frameworks with South Asian communities. In this paper, I offer a look at how the complexities and obstacles faced during UX research can enable technical communicators to rupture the essentialist foundation of identity constructions of Non-Western communities. My paper aims to communicate the necessity of conducting UX research through participatory-design frameworks not only to find answers to design technology but to see a way of completely subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses through the \u201cfailure\u201d to find answers.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/poudyal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"“Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?” – Bibhushana Poudyal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#website","url":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/","name":"SIGDOC Conference 2020","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#organization","name":"SIGDOC Conference 2020","url":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/","sameAs":[],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/sigdoc-logo20-1.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/sigdoc-logo20-1.png","width":609,"height":376,"caption":"SIGDOC Conference 2020"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/person\/dfe7e0b67f0f4fa8491050980755c2b1","name":"SIGDOC","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/024cb8bf1d22d3c73cffcbba1de6bb3b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/024cb8bf1d22d3c73cffcbba1de6bb3b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"SIGDOC"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamstrantz"],"url":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/author\/strantaw\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sigdoc.acm.org\/conference\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}