Everyday millions of people get online and surf the internet, before that people went to libraries and checked out books, and before any of that was possible, empires wrote on wet clay tablets filled with writings that they stored in private rooms, palaces, and temples. These soon became known as private libraries, and soon other empires joined in. What was important was that they were storing and sharing information, each innovation of sharing information has one main goal, to search and obtain knowledge. It is essential in our everyday behavior to seek information to gain knowledge. The goal of this paper is to present Buckland’s argument on information as well as give my argument. What you will gain from this paper is how it is essential in human behavior to search for knowledge.
Information is defined in several ways; Webster defines Information as, the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence: knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction, intelligence, news, facts, and data. The class gave a definition from Ken Davenport that said, “Information is data endowed with relevance and purpose.”(Davenport 2002) We gather information from data that turns into information that is then been understood and received as knowledge that has been remembered throughout that person’s life as wisdom. Russell Ackoff defined information as, “information is data that has been given meaning by way of relational connection.” (Bellinger 2004) This definition was giving as means to illustrate the cycle of how information is formed and transferred. My own definition of information is that, information is the flow of knowledge to people from studies, books, investigations, etc. We obtain information from reading books...
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...ansferred through, including libraries, computers, and specifically people. The way that information coincides with our research behavior is the measurement of data, including demographic, environmental, and social aspects.
The understanding of this paper is that Information seeking is important when trying to gain knowledge. The way we go about gaining this knowledge is based on social and demographic aspects that influence our information seeking process. When we view information as a thing we inadvertently mix tangible and intangible objects that can be gain through distinct categories that Buckland illustrates. We gather information everyday in various forms and ways that we sometimes don’t realize. Information is transferred through many channels or systems that serve a way to inform the user in hopes of filling a specific gap to obtain or gain knowledge.
Chapter one is an examination of different definitions of ‘information’ to support the concept of ‘informa...
Information Literacy is an important skill for the 21st century do to our busy and always on the move schedules. Recognizing when information is needed and being able to efficiently locate, accurately evaluate, effectively use, and clearly communicate the information, will help out when time is of an essence and the information needs information.
With the rise of technology and the staggering availability of information, the digital age has come about in full force, and will only grow from here. Any individual with an internet connection has a vast amount of knowledge at his fingertips. As long as one is online, he is mere clicks away from Wikipedia or Google, which allows him to find what he needs to know. Despite this, Nicholas Carr questions whether Google has a positive impact on the way people take in information. In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr explores the internet’s impact on the way people read. He argues that the availability of so much information has diminished the ability to concentrate on reading, referencing stories of literary types who no longer have the capacity to sit down and read a book, as well as his own personal experiences with this issue. The internet presents tons of data at once, and it is Carr’s assumption that our brains will slowly become wired to better receive this information.
...second using the search engine, people lose their motivation to read and the attention to think about the answer. (Crovitz 353) In Plato’s Phaedrus, Greek philosopher Socrates claims that people who get information without proper instruction as ignorant since they only conceit of the answer instead of the wisdom to find out and understand the answer. (Carr 341) With such access to information, we do spread information and expand human knowledge in a rapid rate. However, we lose our creativity, intelligence and the spirit of inquiry.
Although media today move towards digital online existence, the vast amount of information on digital platforms demand time and skills that will favor eliete users (Bondebjerg)
In the essay “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato addresses how humans generally do not pursue knowledge. Most humans are satisfied with what they already know and do not want to expand their knowledge. Plato uses simple examples to help the reader understand his logic on why humans do not expand their knowledge.
Marquis de Condorcet’s Future Progress of the Human Mind depicts knowledge as being something that human beings want to achieve. To attain more knowledge on a specific thing, the information must be available through more universal education along with subjects being easier to classify. When the knowledge is available and simpler for humans, they will want to learn. Through people wanting to learn more things, new information will want to be discovered and in conclusion, be a happier place. Knowledge, in Condorcet’s eyes, is the key to happiness because it allows people to focus on life rather than surviving.
Nowadays people don’t bother sitting down and going through an article or book from page to page, because it’s not a good use of their time as they can get all information faster through the web. By examining the behaviors of computer users, both authors argue that people don’t really care about deep knowledge of what they are learning or reading. People want to know how things work or are connected in an instant. They feel that they don't need to critically think about the information to help get them along in life. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” supports this claim by citing a scientific study from the University College London were the researchers examined the behavior of visitors to a couple popular websites and found that people using the sites displayed skimming activity (41). The users of the sites did not bother taking the time to read the articles, but they instead power browsed, jumping from one site to the other and hardly returning to the websites they had already visited. In addition, the internet has made people accustomed to new reading styles that people don’t fully comprehend or absorb material. They read things for apparent meaning. Carr also says “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.”
I define the term “Information” as a representation of data, facts, ideas, or anything that describes something else (This sentence is the information for the term information. Isn’t it funny?). My definition of old information is the information before it was changed or updated by another information, in this case, new information. So, when I something I learned is presented to me again, it is still new information since it does not change.
Moreover, Carr’s article mentions that by using technology of any kind, users tend to embody the characteristics stimulated by that technology. He says that given that the Internet processes information almost immediately, users will tend to value immediacy. To explain, Carr gives the example of a friend of his named Scott Karp who was a literary major on college and who used to be an avid book reader. However, since the arrival of the Internet, Karp skim articles online because he could no longer read as much as he used too. He cannot pay attention and absorb long texts ever since he read online articles. Internet...
Newman, John Henry. “Knowledge Its Own End.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2010. 54-59. Print.
Birchler and Butler (2007) stated that there are many reasons to know in depth about economics of information, which are information is an interesting economic good, economics is about information, information is of strategic importance and information economics is a young field with practical relevance in many context.
In final analysis there is a prodigious unorthodoxness among knowledge and information when it comes to learning. What cramming the night before an exam illustrates is you don’t understand the subject due to lack of knowledge. The divergence from knowledge to information is knowledge is rather a practical understanding of the subject or in another words a justified true belief. Knowledge can be looked upon with rational reasoning as it connects fragments of information together .Exemplifying why it creates a mental map. Per contra information is a set of facts that either could be false or true but is an existent without knowledge. Knowledge is understanding until proven incorrect, information is not.
In the world today, information is an important aspect in almost every part of our life. From what time the movie we want to see begins to whether we should buy stock in Dell or IBM, we depend on accurate information. Is this kind of information a commodity? The dictionary defines a commodity as something valuable or useful (Webster 1993). Presently, information is a commodity because people are willing to pay high prices for information in order to make better decisions. In this paper, I will give many examples of how information acts as a commodity. I will also show how information acts as a commodity in other areas than just technology and business.
Books are the oldest medium of communication. Book has been the largest surviving source of print media. Although modern technology and electronic media have greatly influenced the mindset of people, books are still referred as the most essential tool to gain knowledge and information. History recalls that education and learning reached towards every person after print media; especially after printing of books. Preservation of information, education and past events of history have been stored and known to us only because of the influencing and effective books.