ABSTRACT
Authors addressing the question of ‘what is information’ invariably at some point make reference to the work of Claude Shannon. For some it is merely to distance their own concept of information from that of Shannon, but most see the work of Shannon as the beginning of the exploration of ‘information’ as a concept that can be addressed scientifically. Borgmann (1999), for example, says: “The birth certificate of information as a prominent word and notion is an article published in 1948 by Claude Shannon” (p.9).
