[Sigiii-l] Plaza: What needs to be investigated

[Gianluca Miscione]

Probably there still is ignorance about the inbound information to Man
(interpretation, semiotics, linguistics, audiovisual studies...), more about
outbound (more centered on creativity). Surely we don't know enough about
the social interweaving between communication and action. Ok, we can agree
that communication is a social action. But it doesn't resolve the problem
that communication is shaped by forces that are different from the ones you
deal with when trying to create what decided (or not).



I know, I seem repetitive, but now this is my focus, and it seems to me that
's related to the problems arisen by Walter.



gianluca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel J. Menou" <Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr>
To: <sigiii-l at asis.org>
Cc: <krumholz at t-online.de>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 7:41 AM
Subject: [Sigiii-l] Plaza: What needs to be investigated


> With his kind permission I am reproducing here a note which Walter
> Krumholz sent me in an other occasion. I do feel it is
> pointing to yet another area where information science could both
> concentrate a bit more and team up with other disciplines.
> Michel
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> The Ignorance about the Physiological Limits of Man
> to Absorb Information.
> Walter Krumholz
> krumholz at t-online.de
>
>
> 1       Like other living beings, Man needs communication, signals,
> impulses (whatever you may call it, I call it 'information'.) from his
> environment, and by these he obtains (acquires) knowledge of varied
> significance for his life.  His physiological capabilities to receive
> (absorb) information are, however, little explored and known but
> incompletely.
>
> 2       All social systems depend on the exchange of information.
> Without information, their members can neither create social systems
> nor can such systems exist.  Yet innovations within this sector are
> hardly ever accompanied by knowledge or by statements of whether such
> technical developments are really suited to improve the life and the
> sphere of life associated with individual Man or with the social
> systems created by Man.
>
> 3        Man always tried to amplify by technical means the acoustic,
> optic and mechanical signals which affect him.  By these endeavours he
> strives to maintain or even enhance his position in life and within
> the social systems, which are created by Man.
>
> 4       Research into the reciprocal interdependence of Man, his
> social systems with their information needs and their capability to
> absorb information on the one hand, and the technically required and
> institutionalised processing of information as well as the
> dissemination of information to the 'addressees'',are primarily
> carried out with a view towards an aspect of economical and political
> quantitative interest.
>
> 5       Although there is an awareness of the problems of the
> overwhelming flooding of Man with information and moreover with the
> range of effects of information overloaded with distorted signals,
> there is hardly any interest in what effect these have on Man and on
> Man's behaviour.  This may be so because information is used, either
> unconsciously or specifically, as an instrument of power and of
> manipulation of Man.
>
> --
> Walter Krumholz
>
>
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