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Significanceexploring the nature of information, systems and technology /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	SignificancePaul Beynon-Davies.
Reminder of title:	exploring the nature of information, systems and technology /
Author:	Beynon-Davies, Paul.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011.
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	Includes index.
Subject:	Management information systemsSocial aspects.
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230295025 (electronic bk.)

Significanceexploring the nature of information, systems and technology /
Beynon-Davies, Paul.

Significanceexploring the nature of information, systems and technology /[electronic resource] :Paul Beynon-Davies. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- The Nature of Significance -- Signs: Units of Significance -- Systems: Patterns of Order -- Sign Systems: Patterns of Significance -- Communication: The Medium is Not the Message -- Control: Remaining Viable -- Data: Form to Inform -- Data Systems: Patterns of Forma -- Information: In-form to Perform -- Information Systems: Patterns of Informa -- Activity: Performa -- Activity Systems: Patterns of Performa -- Organisation: Viable Patterns -- The Nature of Informatics.

What is information and why is it so important? How does information relate to language and communication? In what sense do animals and machines communicate? Are computers the only information technology? What is the value of information systems to organisations? This book considers the nature of significance and the way it is continually accomplished within activity, communication and representation. It argues that significance is generated at the intersection of signs and systems, which involves the enactment of forma (the substance of a sign), informa (the content of a sign) and performa (the use of signs in coordinated action). In demonstrating the value of this perspective the book employs the innovative approach of considering examples and cases from different times, cultures and species. This improves our understanding of the nature of information, information systems and information technology and the way these phenomena entangle in complex ways within human organisation.

ISBN: 9780230295025 (electronic bk.)

Source: 416869Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

367200
Management information systems
--Social aspects.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD30.213 / B495 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/33

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