Information has been defined widely by such disparate scholars as Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener and Urban Dictionary’s agilman (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=information). No single definition of information is useful or practical without context. One cannot examine a phenomenon without having clear definitions of the underlying concepts. In the case of my own current research, the definitions of information as put forth by Marcia Bates and Michael Buckland, provide an understanding of information in practice, as a process, rather than a static, or purely technical, meaning.
Shannon’s information theory was very much based in the need to transmit data. It is concerned with noise, more akin to the game of telephone — and he was working in Bell Labs at the time.
Information is not all about technology however. Marcia Bates defines information as a pattern of organization, and allows that it is given meaning by living beings.
I am interested specifically interested in neural cultural information that can be transmitted through communication. More on this later.
Art of Information 