Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience Contributor(s): Arafat, Sachi (Author), Ashoori, Elham (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262038595 ISBN-13: 9780262038591 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Theory - Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - General |
Dewey: 020 |
LCCN: 2017061372 |
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.70 lbs) 448 pages |
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Publisher Description: A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search and related processes toward the more general phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. Technology-mediated experience accounts for an increasing proportion of human lived experience; the phenomenon of mediation gets at the heart of the human-machine relationship. Framing IR&S more broadly in this way generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them with those shared across disciplines dealing with socio-technical phenomena. This reorientation of IR&S requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science of technology-mediated experience (STME). Arafat and Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the foundational concepts underlying IR&S and other technical disciplines but also boldly call for a radical, systematic appropriation of the sciences and humanities to create a better understanding of the human-technology relationship. Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IR&S and consider ideas of progress from the history and philosophy of science. They argue that progress in IR&S requires explicit linking between technical and nontechnical aspects of discourse. They develop a network of basic questions and present a discursive framework for addressing these questions. With this book, Arafat and Ashoori provide both a manifesto for the reimagining of their field and the foundations on which a reframed IR&S would rest. |
Contributor Bio(s): Arafat, Sachi: - Sachi Arafat is Assistant Professor of Data Science at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.Ashoori, Elham: - Elham Ashoori is a Senior Scientist at Conduent. |