a scholarly review of this for Choice s to be published soon, Interesting manifesto on information retrieval and science as a techmediated experience, A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science IRampS toward the phenomenon of technologymediated experience.
In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science IRampS away from search and related processes toward the more general phenomenon of technologymediated experience.
Technologymediated experience accounts for an increasing proportion of human lived experience the phenomenon of mediation gets at the heart of the humanmachine relationship.
Framing IRampS more broadly in this way generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them with those shared across disciplines dealing with sociotechnical phenomena.
This reorientation
of IRampS requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science of technologymediated experience STME.
Arafat and Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the foundational concepts underlying IRampS 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 humantechnology relationship.
Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IRampS and consider ideas of progress from the history and philosophy of science.
They argue that progress in IRampS 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 IRampS would rest.
Sachi Arafat is Assistant Professor of Data Science at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, .