The impact of information—II. Concepts of information and its value

摘要

A renewal of interest for the theory of information seems to emerge from a series of recent publications. A number of them advocate a shift toward a cognitive perspective. The preliminary investigation of the concept of impact of information and the research questions raised by its assessment suggest that the most significant impact may be found in the transformation of knowledge structures at the deep paradigmatic level as a result of information-as-contents. This leads to propose a revised formulation of Brookes' Fundamental equation and possible approaches for describing the attributes of the beneficiaries and their knowledge structure.