Information as Thing (Michael Buckland)

Citations

« An exploration of "information" runs into immediate difficulties since information has to do with becoming informed, with the reduction of ignorance and of uncertainty, it is ironic that the term "information" is itself ambiguous and used in different ways. » Information as Thing (p. 351)

« "Evidence" is an appropriate term because it denotes something related to understanding, something which, if found and correctly understood, could change one's knowledge, one's beliefs, concerning some matter. » Information as Thing (p. 353)

«  Evidence, like information-as-thing, does not do anything actively. Human beings do things with it or to it. They examine it, describe it, and categorize it. They understand, misunderstand, interpret, summarize, or rebut it. They may even try to fake it, alter it, hide it, or destroy it. » Information as Thing (p. 353)

« Buckland's discussion of “information-as-thing” argues that information should be evaluated in terms of informativeness, or its potential for being used as evidence. Informativeness, in turn, is determined by agreement among the actors in a community. » Information as Discursive Construct (p. 3)

« Given that any object or document can be deemed informative under some circumstance, this leads into an anarchy where subjective individual judgments come to determine the informational value of things. » Regimes of Information (p. 336)

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