[Air-l] How Much Information / Information Growth

[Jose-Carlos Mariategui]

Knowledge to my understanding is more related to some type information that
is sustained over time (as the ones carried by libraries).  Information may
be seen in that respect a very general concept, but in order to make us
aware of the fundamental change in using information, specially due to the
explosion of the internet, we should not just take a look at the particular
artefacts but the connections among them, that are brought upon the use of
information.

There are other ways of approaching the concept of information.  Of course
digital data is one of them and that is what I referred when I mentioned the
Lyman and Varian 2003 study.  The work of Shannon is a much more
engineering-based approach that does not acknowledge information as meaning
or content, but as discrete syntactic information (information through a
channel).

I am basically trying to look upon research being done in how to approach
the quantification and qualification of information available today in the
world.

Jose-Carlos




on 1/3/07 2:43, Semenov Alexander at semenoffalex at googlemail.com wrote:

> 
> Hmm, here can be a lot of dichotomies. For example subjective
> (knowledge)/objective (information), referred to values (knowledge)/ free of
> values (information), substantive(knowledge)/formal (information) and so on.
> Or it can be considered as a process of internalization of khowledge, like:
> Objective information ---media (books, etc.)---socialization----->subjective
> knowledge.
> But my idea was that perhaps this division is somehow connected with
> modernity. I think, that analogy with leading idea of Georg Simmel's
> "Philosophy of money" could be very fruitful and interesting. Or it can be
> connected with processes of rationalization in Max Webers sence. What do you
> think?
> It's not my primary research theme - I just wondered and decided to ask.
> Usually I think about it in the background of my brain - nothing more. But,
> however this idea seems more and more interesting to me from sociological
> perspective. If someone knows some theoretical sources on that matter I'll
> be happy to discuss it. But, I think that we should start a new topic as
> we've already flooded a lot of irrelevant information =)
> Alexander Semenov.
>  MA student
>  Faculty of Sociology
>  Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
>  http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
> 
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> 
> I'm not sure this has bearing, but doing a bit of quick pre-research on the
> Internet brought back a reference to what Noam Chomsky's called "Plato's
> problem" regarding the difference between knowledge and experience. What I
> found is at http://www.answers.com/topic/plato-s-problem The Meno dialogue
> is suggested as a possible source. In general, would this be the same as the
> information/communication divide? Can it, I wonder, be traced to intuitive
> differences between connotation/denotation? sorry for all the questions. I
> was only going to put in 2 cents instead of 4, but, well, as often happens.
>    
>   Best regards,
>    
>   Will
> 
> 
> William Bain
> PhD Student
> Comparative Literature
> Department of Spanish Philology
> Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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