Search Foundations

Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience

Sachi Arafat (University of Glasgow), Elham Ashoori (Imperial College London), Michael Buckland (Professor Emeritus and Co-Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, University of California, Berkeley) , Jonathan Furner (UCLA)

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MIT Press
12 February 2019

Information theory; Coding theory & cryptology

Series: Search Foundations

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.

By: Sachi Arafat (University of Glasgow), Elham Ashoori (Imperial College London)
Series edited by: Michael Buckland (Professor Emeritus and Co-Director Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative University of California Berkeley), Jonathan Furner (UCLA), Markus Krajewski (Professor of Media Studies, University of Basel)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 29mm
ISBN: 9780262038591
ISBN 10: 0262038595
Series: Search Foundations
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 12 February 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sachi Arafat is Assistant Professor of Data Science at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Elham Ashoori is a Senior Scientist at Conduent.