Lab 2 Post

Infoport

Information is not easily defined; however the article, “The Nature of Information” defines information as an action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge. Information is not a specific area or field that can be narrowed down. It is know as the basis of all communication. Information is based off of relationships among signs, objects, and things. A person is informed by signs that represent symbols, and those symbols refer to information that people understand. Semiotics is the discipline that studies sign systems. There are three types of symbols: Icons, which are direct representations of objects; Indices, which are indirect representations of objects, but necessarily related; and Symbols, which are arbitrary representations of objects, which require exclusively a social convention to be understood. One thing that makes sharing information difficult is the language barrier that exists in the world today.