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"What is colour'", "What is the precise meaning of the statement 'the stock exchange closes at a 5% drop this evening''", "How are TV viewers defined'", or "How can images produce meaning'" Such everyday questions are examined in this book. To make our analysis intuitive and understandable, numerous concrete examples illustrate our theoretical framework and concepts. The examples include gaming, fictional skits in leisure entertainment, and enigmas. The golden thread running through the text revisits the informational process and places the datum as its pivot. The epistemological perspective of our novel approach is that of "radical relativity". This is based on the precept that a perceptual trace carries with it the spectrum of the process that has engendered it. Given this, the informational tracking endeavour tracks the meaning-making process, notably through interpretive scaffoldings that leads to plausible realities
The First Information Theories -- Understanding Shannon through Play -- Tele : before Shannon -- Some Revisions of the Concept of Information -- Conceptualization and Representations -- From Captures to Data -- From Data to Aggregates -- Trace Deployment from Indexical Retention to Writing -- Interpretive Scaffoldings in Context -- Realities under the Watch of Horizons of Relevance -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Science, society and new technologies series