Concept of Information: A Reading List

Last Update: September 20, 2022

Adriaans, P. (2020). Information. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/information

Bates, M. J. (2005). Information and knowledge: An evolutionary framework for information science. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 10(4), n4.

Bates, M. J. (2018). Information. In J. D. McDonald & M. Levine-Clark (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library and information sciences (4th ed., pp. 2048-2063). CRC Press.

Buckland, M. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 351-360. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199106)42:5<351::Aid-asi5>3.0.Co;2-3

Capurro, R., & Hjørland, B. (2005). The concept of information. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37(1), 343-411. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440370109

Floridi, L. (2002). What is the Philosophy of Information? Metaphilosophy, 33(1‐2), 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9973.00221

Floridi, L. (2003). Informational realism Conference on Computers and philosophy, Canberra, Australia.

Floridi, L. (2010). Information: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.

Furner, J. (2014). Information Without Information Studies. In F. Ibekwe-SanJuan & T. M. Dousa (Eds.), Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Approach (pp. 143-179). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1_7

Gleick, J. (2011). The information: A history, a theory, a flood. Vintage.

McKinney, E. H., & Yoos, C. J. (2019). Information as a difference: toward a subjective theory of information. European Journal of Information Systems, 28(4), 355-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085x.2019.1581441

Mingers, J., & Standing, C. (2018). What is Information? Toward a Theory of Information as Objective and Veridical. Journal of Information Technology, 33(2), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41265-017-0038-6

Sequoiah-Grayson, S., & Floridi, L. (2022). Semantic Conceptions of Information. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/information-semantic

Shannon, C. E. (1948). A mathematical theory of communication. The Bell system technical journal, 27(3), 379-423.