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Search Foundations : Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience, Hardback Book

Search Foundations : Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience Hardback

Part of the Search Foundations series

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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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