Information+-+definitions

Broadest defition of all (from IS530): anything that exists (psychologically) for a person.

Buckland recognizes 3 types of information:
 * 1) Information as process (as our state of knowledge changes)
 * 2) Information as knowledge (that which is perceived in #1)
 * 3) Information as thing (objects themselves can be informative)

Dervin: Sense-making is the series of procedures and behaviors that allow us to move from stage 1 to stage 2, and then //act//.
 * Objective, external I - humans attempt to describe reality
 * Subjective, internal I - our cognitive map of reality

Macreadie & Rice note 4 types of I:
 * 1) I as resource/commodity
 * 2) Data present in our environment (e.g. weather phenomena)
 * 3) Representations of knowledge (e.g. documents)
 * 4) I as part of the communications process (created as we function)