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= Themes =
= Themes =
== Informational Transparency ==
== Informational Transparency ==
* See Shannon's model
* "Information wants to be free"
* Social problems reducible to "noise"
* Missing context --> See Bateson's misreading of Shannon
* Government gets in the way
== Commodification of Knowledge ==
== Commodification of Knowledge ==
== Reconstitution of Knowledge ==
== Reconstitution of Knowledge ==

Revision as of 01:44, 8 October 2007

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Intro

Business

Recap

Segue

Themes

Informational Transparency

  • See Shannon's model
  • "Information wants to be free"
  • Social problems reducible to "noise"
  • Missing context --> See Bateson's misreading of Shannon
  • Government gets in the way

Commodification of Knowledge

Reconstitution of Knowledge

Discourse

Database as Symbolic Form

Narrative