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Information as discursive construct

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Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 96 KB
Volume: 47
Category: Article
ISSN: 0044-7870
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701098

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✦ Synopsis

By revisiting the notion of "information-as-thing" and investigating the notion of "regimes of information" , this paper shows that "information" is constituted by community consensus and is influenced by economic and political structures of social systems. As such, "information" should be understood as discursive construct. Understanding "information" as discursive construct not only rids us of distorted views of communication and cognition implicated in influential conceptions of information, but also opens up questions concerning "information" for critical social analyses, which in turn leads to epistemological and methodological discussions.

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