Thank you! Saw you at ECIL and your presentation and approaches have stuck with me. I'm using this video in our gen ed course as a companion to the Buckland paper.
Wonderful! Thanks for your supportive note; it is appreciated. I also asign videos and papers side-by-side and my students enjoy the different perspectives. I look forward to seeing you again at ECIL, a wonderful conference. (Oh, perhaps you know, but if not, I turned the ECIL presentation in a video series: th-cam.com/play/PLZp7Vke_WTVpFc-vT3Yv6he9iNFztRvAg.html if you want to return to the "Archipelago of Information Science.") Warmest wishes, Jenna
Love your work! I am focusing in on Privacy and your work has definitely helped me in amplifying this message! Graduating in December 23 with MLIS. 😊 Thom
Thanks for your kind comment, Tom. That's wonderful news about your studies in LIS. Congratulations! I look forward to your contributions to the field, and I hope we meet in person some day. 😉
This was very informative and useful for the class I am taking, but the video is so hard to watch. It has way too many moving parts and flashing colors, I'm getting a headache just watching it.
So sorry to hear of your headache, DCL. Thanks for watching and commenting. Here are two options to potentially help if you return to my videos in your class: 1.) Play the video but just listen (don't watch). My videos are anchored in that narrative (audio track) not in the imagery on the screen (which is just decoration). They can function like a podcast and some of my students prefer this way. OR, 2.) Read the paper instead! (That's how I learned Buckland's ideas myself along with thousands of past generations of students in Information Science. I'm not being sarcastic, reading is still a better mode of understanding for many people.) Hope these strategies help by providing alternatives. Best wishes for your studies in Information Science.
Thanks for your comment, Sarang.Chavan. My videos follow a standard ratio of my voiceover (volume) to the music, and this is set by my video-making platform. But because my voice can be soft, it may require an additional adjustment, that is, raising my voice or decreasing the sound of the music. Hence, I will do that in future videos. I'm very sorry if this matter frustrated your viewing and learning, and I appreciate the feedback. All the best wishes, Jenna
Leanne, Thanks for watching and for your note. So, you should be able to access automatically generated subtitles from TH-cam, which are not too bad. With your encouragement, I will put this task on my to do list (because there is another way to secure subtitles but it takes some time). I hope you keep coming back to INFIDEOS. Warmest wishes, Jenna
Found this summary really helpful but has left me more confused. It seems that "information" is so ambiguous and we are trying our best to make sense of the noise by classifying it. Yet there is so much overlap. For example, information as data is defined to be what resides in our computers and information as texts/books can be both digital or exists as a hardcopy. But a digital copy of information as text wouldn't be considered as data as well? I am finding it difficult to find concrete boundaries which is conflicting with my understanding on various types and sources of information.
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment on the nature of information. In truth, my field (Information Science) has been debating the definition for about 50 years, and Bates' comprehensive review (mentioned in the video) identifies around 100 attempts. There is even a theorist who declares we simply should give up the effort! Hence, this matter even confuses the best experts! For my part, I have attempted to define information through drawings (you might enjoy that video, also on this site and linked at the end of my comment). All this is along way of saying you are in good company with your confusion, and I impressed by your reflections. I hope that over the years (and it will take time), you might come to your own understanding. Sincere good wishes, Jenna My video: th-cam.com/video/t213bFR4Oe4/w-d-xo.html Bates' great survey of definitions: pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/information.html
@@INFIDEOS Thank you so much for your prompt response. It is good to know that I am not alone in this boat. Will go through the resources provided by you. Thanks again and good luck professor :D
Read Buckland’s paper in my first doctoral seminar and have always thought it was missing something significant - information as relationship. I don’t think information is a thing, the letter “S” is not information it’s just a squiggly line if written or a configuration of pixels if typed. The information emerges as a result of my understanding of what the squiggly line means. If a baby sees the same squiggly line, it is meaningless data.
Dear Don, a big thanks for your thoughtful comment. I wish we had more comments of this kind on my channel. My sense is that you are raising the fundamental philosophical question whether information is objective, and "out there" free of the human mind OR if it only emerges upon human sense-making. I appreciate that you place the former in a different category--"data" you say. I agree with you, Don, that Buckland doesn't explore this matter thoroughly in this famous paper. I think he had other issues in mind (such as recognizing the Documentation tradition in Information Science). But my own mentor, Dr. Marcia Bates, comprehensively defines information, and her point of departure is this very issue you raise, of whether phenomena like the letter "S" is information even beyond human consciousness, that is, does information exist in the Universe outside of human consciousness? She says "YES!" (e.g. planets in distant galaxies have information). I am not philosophically versed enough to say more, but here is her paper if you are interested [pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/fundforms.pdf]. Thank you for watching the video and contributing your perspective.
Thank you! Saw you at ECIL and your presentation and approaches have stuck with me. I'm using this video in our gen ed course as a companion to the Buckland paper.
Wonderful! Thanks for your supportive note; it is appreciated. I also asign videos and papers side-by-side and my students enjoy the different perspectives. I look forward to seeing you again at ECIL, a wonderful conference. (Oh, perhaps you know, but if not, I turned the ECIL presentation in a video series: th-cam.com/play/PLZp7Vke_WTVpFc-vT3Yv6he9iNFztRvAg.html if you want to return to the "Archipelago of Information Science.") Warmest wishes, Jenna
Love your work! I am focusing in on Privacy and your work has definitely helped me in amplifying this message! Graduating in December 23 with MLIS. 😊 Thom
Thanks for your kind comment, Tom. That's wonderful news about your studies in LIS. Congratulations! I look forward to your contributions to the field, and I hope we meet in person some day. 😉
This was very informative and useful for the class I am taking, but the video is so hard to watch. It has way too many moving parts and flashing colors, I'm getting a headache just watching it.
So sorry to hear of your headache, DCL. Thanks for watching and commenting. Here are two options to potentially help if you return to my videos in your class: 1.) Play the video but just listen (don't watch). My videos are anchored in that narrative (audio track) not in the imagery on the screen (which is just decoration). They can function like a podcast and some of my students prefer this way. OR, 2.) Read the paper instead! (That's how I learned Buckland's ideas myself along with thousands of past generations of students in Information Science. I'm not being sarcastic, reading is still a better mode of understanding for many people.) Hope these strategies help by providing alternatives. Best wishes for your studies in Information Science.
Hello! Thanks for this video. Request to reduce the volume of background music as against the spoken word.
Thanks for your comment, Sarang.Chavan. My videos follow a standard ratio of my voiceover (volume) to the music, and this is set by my video-making platform. But because my voice can be soft, it may require an additional adjustment, that is, raising my voice or decreasing the sound of the music. Hence, I will do that in future videos. I'm very sorry if this matter frustrated your viewing and learning, and I appreciate the feedback. All the best wishes, Jenna
Thank you for the informative video. Is there a plan to add subtitles?
Leanne, Thanks for watching and for your note. So, you should be able to access automatically generated subtitles from TH-cam, which are not too bad. With your encouragement, I will put this task on my to do list (because there is another way to secure subtitles but it takes some time). I hope you keep coming back to INFIDEOS. Warmest wishes, Jenna
Found this summary really helpful but has left me more confused. It seems that "information" is so ambiguous and we are trying our best to make sense of the noise by classifying it. Yet there is so much overlap. For example, information as data is defined to be what resides in our computers and information as texts/books can be both digital or exists as a hardcopy. But a digital copy of information as text wouldn't be considered as data as well? I am finding it difficult to find concrete boundaries which is conflicting with my understanding on various types and sources of information.
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment on the nature of information. In truth, my field (Information Science) has been debating the definition for about 50 years, and Bates' comprehensive review (mentioned in the video) identifies around 100 attempts. There is even a theorist who declares we simply should give up the effort! Hence, this matter even confuses the best experts! For my part, I have attempted to define information through drawings (you might enjoy that video, also on this site and linked at the end of my comment). All this is along way of saying you are in good company with your confusion, and I impressed by your reflections. I hope that over the years (and it will take time), you might come to your own understanding. Sincere good wishes, Jenna
My video: th-cam.com/video/t213bFR4Oe4/w-d-xo.html
Bates' great survey of definitions: pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/information.html
@@INFIDEOS Thank you so much for your prompt response. It is good to know that I am not alone in this boat. Will go through the resources provided by you. Thanks again and good luck professor :D
Read Buckland’s paper in my first doctoral seminar and have always thought it was missing something significant - information as relationship. I don’t think information is a thing, the letter “S” is not information it’s just a squiggly line if written or a configuration of pixels if typed. The information emerges as a result of my understanding of what the squiggly line means. If a baby sees the same squiggly line, it is meaningless data.
Dear Don, a big thanks for your thoughtful comment. I wish we had more comments of this kind on my channel. My sense is that you are raising the fundamental philosophical question whether information is objective, and "out there" free of the human mind OR if it only emerges upon human sense-making. I appreciate that you place the former in a different category--"data" you say. I agree with you, Don, that Buckland doesn't explore this matter thoroughly in this famous paper. I think he had other issues in mind (such as recognizing the Documentation tradition in Information Science). But my own mentor, Dr. Marcia Bates, comprehensively defines information, and her point of departure is this very issue you raise, of whether phenomena like the letter "S" is information even beyond human consciousness, that is, does information exist in the Universe outside of human consciousness? She says "YES!" (e.g. planets in distant galaxies have information). I am not philosophically versed enough to say more, but here is her paper if you are interested [pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/fundforms.pdf]. Thank you for watching the video and contributing your perspective.
@@INFIDEOS Thank you much. Love your videos and love to read Dr. Bates’ writings.
Very Informative! (hehe)
Ha! ha! Great comment! 😊
Thanks for watching and writing. Please keep coming back to INFIDEOS.