information architecture & critical history of software (PhD research) in Toronto

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Quinn DuPont studies the critical history of software technologies, focusing on metaphysical, historical, and political issues. He has recently been studying the history of email and developing an argument about the modes of production for software development. Quinn is currently a MITACS Enhanced Accelerate PhD Fellow and iSchool PhD student in Toronto, Canada.

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Apr202009

A sense of information

DateMonday, April 20, 2009 at 10:34PM

From The Future of the Book (109),

The word “information,” in this theory, is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In particular, information must not be confused with meaning. In fact, two messages, one of which is heavily loaded with meaning and the other of which is pure nonsense, can be exactly equivalent, from the present viewpoint, as regards information (Weaver 1964: 4)

I’ll have more to say about this matter later, time permitting.

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