Floridi
Rating: 3
1) How do analogue, digital, and binary data differ
when translating into information? Can the same information be obtained from
more than one type of data? If a record plays a song and a CD plays the same
song is that the same information or different information?
2) If the lack of information/data is in and of itself
information/data, is it possible to create an information void? A data void? If
so, how would you do it?
3) Chapter 2 tells us that information is data +
meaning. In chapter 3 we learn that “According to MTC, the classic monkey
randomly pressing typewriter keys is indeed producing a lot of information.”
Are these conflicting ideas? If not, how are they reconciled?
Nunberg
Rating: 2
1) Does
knowing how the word “information” was used 150 years ago affect the way we use
and understand the word today? What happened in our culture and society to
bring about the change of meaning for the word?
2) Floridi
talked about how information was data that had been endowed with meaning. Would
Nunberg agree or disagree?
3) There
seems to be a tie between knowledge & humanity and information &
culture. Knowledge cannot exist without someone to know it and information without cultural
context is not information. Perhaps it is merely data. In addition, culture
cannot exist without the people who live in it. So if information is tied to
culture and culture is tied to people, does this mean information is tied to people
just as knowledge is? How do these ties bring the concepts of knowledge and
information closer together or further apart?
Webster and Watson
Rating: 4
1) When picking a good topic for a lit review how can
we decide if the existing material is sufficient? We want to pick a topic that
still needs research so that our review can point that research in the right
direction, but topics that are brand new in their fields will not yet have a
lot of literature to actually review.
2) The authors mention that writing and revising a
literature review takes longer than writing and revising a research article.
How long does it take a typical lit review to get published, from conception to
publication? 6 months? A year? Multiple years?
3) Do authors of literature reviews ever include
previous literature reviews as sources? Would that be a special case, and if
so, what would be an example of that?
