A Hermeneutic Approach to the Notion of Information in IS

  • Authors:
  • Su-Fen Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai, China 200051

  • Venue:
  • KES '08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Part II
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the field of information systems (IS), `information' is probably the most important and fundamental notion. And yet, existing studies of it seem inadequate and lacking of sufficient depth, and further work is therefore desperately in need. We adopt Hermeneutics to approach the essence of information. We describe how Hermeneutics might enable us to look at the mechanism whereby information is created and information flow takes place, and explain implications this approach might have to requirement identification in IS