The concept of information
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The term 'information' first appeared in English in the 15th century, but it rose to prominence in the second half of the 20th century as a result of its increasing centrality to the natural sciences. It is argued that, when seen from the perspective of processes of individuation, the concept of information problematizes the understanding of the adaptive relation between an individual and its environment, as framed by cybernetics, and that of a knowing subject with a known object, as understood by phenomenology.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Copyright
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The early English, American and French initiatives in the modern institution of copyright set in motion a process of legal-conceptual evolution that gradually but inexorably moved the concept to a number of disciplines beyond law. Copyright law operates with a conception of the cultural artifact as a bounded expressive form originating in the creative efforts of some individual, that is, a fixed, reified work of authorship.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Information
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The development and spread of numerous global and local media in contemporary times led to the information phenomena being experienced in a manner that outstrips the narrow confines of the concept's history as a specialized military term. The concept of information must be understood as a field of struggle in which different definitions confront each other leading to the creation of new practices and alternative concepts.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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