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"Philosophy of Education"

2012 year, number 5

THE SOCIAL-PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE VALUE OF INFORMATION

T. V. Chaplya
Keywords: social information, value of information, utility of information, information quality, information becoming obsolete
Pages: 133-141

Abstract

The author analyses the concepts and key parameters of the value of information by means of comparing such its characteristics as novelty, importance, utility, and truth. The value-related characteristics of scientific, aesthetic, ethic, ideological, socio-political, and economic types of information are considered in the article from the viewpoint of the subject and object approach. The interrelation between the value of information and the goals and needs of the individual is revealed.