Terms for Talking about Information and Communication
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Terms for Talking about Information and Communication
This paper offers terms for talking about information and how it relates to both matter-energy and communication, by: (1) Identifying three different levels of signs: Index, based in contiguity, icon, based in similarity, and symbol, based in convention; (2) examining three kinds of coding: Analogic differences, which deal with positive quantities having contiguous and continuous values, and di...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Information
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2078-2489
DOI: 10.3390/info3030351