Past, present, and future of the concept of information

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5844035
AutoresRafael Capurro (0000-0002-3839-4637, Steinbeis Foundation, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume7
Fascículo2
Páginas125-141
Data de publicação2009-11-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicotripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1726-670X • E-ISSN: 1726-670X
EditoratripleC (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.31269/triplec.v7i2.113
OpenAlexW1564479425
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas20

This text provides an overview of the complex history of the concept of information in the Greek-Latin as well as in the Medieval and Modern traditions. It connects the Latin etymology of the term informatio with the Greek concepts of eidos/idea and morphé and shows how the objective meaning of information ('giving form to something') becomes obsolete in modernity where only the communicational meaning ('telling something (new) to someone') remains. Information theories in the 20th Century are related to the development of technical systems of message transmission. They give rise to a renaissance of the objective notion of information but under a different framework as the one of the classic pre-modern philosophy. Establishing a connection between the concepts of information and message several options are presented leading to a concept of information based on a theory of messages

Conceptual history · Etymology · Information transmission · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Media, Communication, and Education · Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry