ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what has been counted as information, data, knowledge, or wisdom in matters of justice. It relys on a contemporary understanding of information as data that are processed by humans and technologies, resulting in knowledge or beliefs that are acted on, and which may later be recognized as wisdom – or fatal error. Communication is a means of justice, as humans engage the problematic situations of their coexistence. Communication about justice has been enabled over time by the historically available technologies and institutions. The chapter reviews the development of media as social infrastructures – what media are and have been, as actualizations of material, institutional, and discursive potentials. Fictional genres are part and parcel of socialization and education for democratic participation; they facilitate the identification and enactment of facts. Objects and structures in the world afford different relational uses by different organisms.
