Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience (History and Foundations of Information Science) - Softcover

Arafat, Sachi; Ashoori, Elham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262553473 ISBN 13: 9780262553476

Verlag: MIT Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sachi Arafat is Assistant Professor of Data Science at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.

Elham Ashoori is a Senior Scientist at Conduent.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262553473
• ISBN 13: 9780262553476
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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