What is Information?

How do you define information, and how does that definition overlap or differ with how others might define it? In this video, we look at some definitions Inside (and outside) of Information Science to see if we can develop a nice, one-size-fits-all definition for everyone.

#InformationScience #CookieMonster #DIKW

Guest-starring:
12Tone:    / @12tone  

Jabril (SEFD Science):
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Works Cited:
Bates, M. "Information." Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. Retrieved from https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/...

Losee, R. M., & SpringerLink ebooks - Computer Science. (2012). Information from processes: About the nature of information creation, use, and representation (1;2012; ed.). New York;Heidelberg;: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31190-1

Rutledge, T. "The Man Who Invented Information Theory." http://bostonreview.net/science-natur...

Shannon, C.E. "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." http://sites.google.com/site/parthoch...

Claude Shannon image (CC-BY-2.0) from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/teknisk...

Cookie Monster Clip is used for education purposes under Fair Use laws, owned by Sesame Workshop.

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This video was shot and recorded on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam people.

Music: "Lola" performed by the United States Marine Band, in the public domain.