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Public Services Information Management 2. Some theories of information
Public Services Information Management2. Some theories of information Review the basis of Scientific method.. http://psim.co.uk/qual_1.doc
Public Services Information Management2. Some theories of information Checkland and Holwell(1998),Information, Systems and Information Systems argue.. • Data – basic ‘facts’ • Capta – data selected or viewed in a particular way
Public Services Information Management2. Some theories of information • Information to which meaning has been attributed in a context which may be cognitive, spatial or temporal. Note that ‘information’ has a meaning attributed to it by humans – and this is a particularly human capacity.
Public Services Information Management2. Some theories of information What is the information conveyed by: • The word dinner • Traffic light at orange • A baby crying • A message which did not arrive
Public Services Information Management2. Some theories of information • Shannon-Weaver model…(Power Point) • Shannon-Weaver (text)