Information Theory
By: Stephen Showalter
The information theory is a theory that deals
primarily with the structural aspect of communication.
This is directly due to the fact that it was created
by Claude Shannon, a Bell Telephone Company research
scientist. He was unconcerned with the human side of
communication.
The semantic meaning of a message or the pragmatic
effect on the listener mattered little to him.
Warren Weaver, an executive with the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Sloan-Kettering Institute on Cancer
Research, expressed in an essay that reducing the loss
of information was
the solution to any communication problem. The basis of
the information theory is to reusce any interference
in the communication of a message. A linear model of
communication is used in A First Look at Communication
Theory to illustrate the thought of communication
in a technical sense.
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