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Shannon, Wiener, and the alethic value of information
Mestre, Juliana
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- Title
- Shannon, Wiener, and the alethic value of information
- Author(s)
- Mestre, Juliana
- Issue Date
- 2024-10-16
- Keyword(s)
- Information Science
- Claude Shannon
- Norbert Wiener
- History of LIS
- Truth and information
- Information ethics
- Information use
- Political economy of the information society
- Abstract
- This paper uses historical and deconstructive methods to examine contrasting visions of information’s alethic value. It focusses specifically on the research and legacies of Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, two founding fathers of information science. Shannon’s formulation of information as a statistical function of probability emphasizes a kind of pragmatism: information that can be broken into bits and transmitted through a system possesses alethic value. Wiener’s research and career set a contrasting example to that of Shannon in relation to a construction of truth. The alethic value of information in the Wienerian tradition is derived not only from its pragmatic transference within a system, but also from the way in which it interacts with other systems through feedback loops. The dichotomy set by Shannon and Wiener implicates broader questions surrounding conceptualizations of truth in LIS research today.
- Publisher
- Association for Library and Information Science Education
- Series/Report Name or Number
- Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2024
- Type of Resource
- text
- Genre of Resource
- Conference Paper
- Presentation
- Language
- eng
- Handle URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130750
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1737
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2024 Juliana Mestre
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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