ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the aspects of the interrelated themes of information and communication. The uses to which information is put are quite literally countless, hence the power of those metaphors which link the human and the social organisms in describing information as the lifeblood of society. Information in an existential–hermeneutical sense, means to thematically and situationally share a common world. Information is an intrinsic property of various systems, which exists irrespective of whether any human or other forms of intelligence perceive it or utilize it. The issue of information quality is quite clearly one of fundamental concern to the information science community, as the design of systems and paradigms will well attest. Information is viewed as a vital link between a living system and its environment, and communication as the transformation of information. Robert M. Hayes defines information in a formal sense as that property of data, that is, recorded symbols, which represents, and measures, effects of processing them.
