%0 Journal Article
%T Terms for Talking about Information and Communication
%A Corey Anton
%J Information
%D 2012
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/info3030351
%X This paper offers terms for talking about information and how it relates to both matter-energy and communication, by: (1) Identifying three different levels of signs: Index, based in contiguity, icon, based in similarity, and symbol, based in convention; (2) examining three kinds of coding: Analogic differences, which deal with positive quantities having contiguous and continuous values, and digital distinctions, which include ¡°either/or functions¡±, discrete values, and capacities for negation, decontextualization, and abstract concept-transfer, and finally, iconic coding, which incorporates both analogic differences and digital distinctions; and (3) differentiating between ¡°information theoretic¡± orientations (which deal with data, what is ¡°given as meaningful¡± according to selections and combinations within ¡°contexts of choice¡±) and ¡°communication theoretic¡± ones (which deal with capta, what is ¡°taken as meaningful¡± according to various ¡°choices of context¡±). Finally, a brief envoi reflects on how information broadly construed relates to probability and£¿entropy.
%K sign
%K index
%K icon
%K symbol
%K coding
%K context
%K information
%K communication
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/3/351