Information retrieval (IR) research must understand and contend with the social implications of the technology it produces. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as human-computer interaction, information sciences, media studies, design, science and technology studies, social sciences, humanities, democratic theory, and critical theory, as well as legal and policy experts, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others. In this perspective paper, we motivate why the community must consider this radical shift in how we do research and what we work on, and sketch a path forward towards this transformation.

翻译：信息检索（IR）研究必须理解并应对其所产技术的社会影响。研究界不应采取被动策略试图减轻新兴技术可能造成的社会危害，而应主动设定研究议程，以多元明确表述的社会技术想象为灵感，构建我们应当发展的系统类型。支撑信息获取技术设计与开发的社会技术想象需要被明确阐述，并且我们需要在这些多元视角的背景下发展变革理论。我们指导性的未来想象必须借鉴其他学术领域的见解，包括人机交互、信息科学、媒体研究、设计、科学技术研究、社会科学、人文科学、民主理论、批判理论，以及法律与政策专家、民权与社会正义活动家、艺术家等。在这篇观点论文中，我们阐述了研究界为何必须在研究方式和研究内容上进行这种根本性转变，并勾勒了实现这一转型的前进路径。