Can information be objective and/or subjective? Based on Patrick
Wilson’s notion of public knowledge and a story of a sign on a tree,
this paper argues that private information is not the same as subjective
information, and that the very communicative process of making information
makes information objective. It also argues that the objective
sense of information—public knowledge—has been and will be
most relevant to information science, hence questions concerning
collective responsibility in collecting, preserving, and organizing
information shall be considered.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89823
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2015.0013
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