Overall, Ritchie provides an excellent introduction to Shannon's
theories of communication and the associated ideas concerning
information. --Library Quarterly SERIES QUOTE: "The second volume
in the series is titled information and the third volume is
Gatekeeping. Taking their lead from Chaffee, both Ritchie and
Shoemaker carefully explicate the concepts which focus their texts.
As is the first volume in the series, these are well-thought out,
succinct, and very readable volumes. Additional titles are planned.
. . . If the standards set by these three are continued, this
promises to be an exciting series which provides clarity and focus
to the study of communication." --ETC: A Review of General
Semantics Challenging, intriguing, complex--defining information
has occupied many of the best minds in the field of communication
for half a century. Information seeks to summarize and resolve the
difficult issues associated with this endeavor. Ritchie succinctly
explains the distinctions among the myriad
definitions/understandings of information and why these
distinctions are important. Providing a definition for information,
he then explores how the concept of information can connect various
aspects of the communication process in a coherent way. This
analysis ranges across several levels of conceptual usage:
technical meaning in engineering; the complex meanings of
information; and its metaphorical usage by communication theorists.
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