Information can be conceptualized in two fundamentally yet contradictory ways_it appears in the world as both a physical and a cognitive phenomenon. The dilemma information specialists face is similar to that of physicists who must cope with light as both a wave and a particle. Unlike physics, however, information science has yet to develop a unified theory that unites the contradictory conceptions of its essential theoretical object.

Author: Raber, Douglas
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The Problem of Information: An Introduction to Information Science
Pages: 00280 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00280 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2003-05-07
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780810845688
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Library & Information Science
Category: Computers : Information Theory