Information Ecology in the Context of General Ecology

Abstract

Abstract:The ecological approach studied in this paper is a new level of information studies. It allows for achieving a better understanding of information processes in society as well as more efficient creation of information processing systems. At first, in Section 2, we describe and analyze ecological studies in different areas ranging from biology to technology to sociology to knowledge and information. Then, in Section 3, we present elements of general ecology building methodological and philosophical foundation for information ecology. In Sections 4 and 5, we elaborate a concise definition of information ecology and further develop information ecology as a methodological base for information studies in general based on the concepts and principles of the general theory of information.

10. Ecology of Information, a Beneficial Comprehensive Approach in Arts Higher Education

“…Information ecology is a holistic study of information processing systems in the context of their surroundings by explicating patterns of, processes in and interrelationships between these systems and their components in the context of their environment. (Burgin, 2018) While ecology as an extensive concept and study perspective implies definitions, principles, rules, data sets, it needs to be implemented in some way. Our opinion is that the best way to implement it is by building an Applied Formal Ontology (AFO, see Gruber 1993, Munn et al 2008, Guarino 2009, cited in Grigoraș 2022).…”

Research on ecological evaluation of an enterprise open innovation community website

“…The two-element theory compares the information ecosystem to the natural ecosystem and states that the information ecosystem consists of two main elements: “information people” (corresponding to the biological communities of the natural ecosystem) and “information environment” (corresponding to the living environment of the biological communities) (Rasinsky and Tabak, 2022). The three-element theory categorizes information as a separate factor and proposes that the information ecosystem is composed of three elements: “information people, information, information environment” (Burgin and Zhong, 2018). The four-element theory extracts information technology as an independent factor from the information environment, based on the three-element theory.…”

Artificial Intelligence and the Limitations of Information

“…The relationship between information and ideas about evolution and ecology has been studied by several authors (see for example [14,15]). This section sets out the approach to information and evolution contained in [5][6][7][8].…”

“…Please note that this is a generic capability model that applies to all IEs and the degree to which capabilities are present in any IE may vary hugely. There are many other such models (for example, Figure 5 in [15]) highlighting different viewpoints but Figure 2 focuses on the issues that relate to fitness. An IE needs the capability to interact and, in turn, this needs the ability to sense and respond to the environment (for example, to understand speech and to talk).…”