On the road to information and communication

The aim of this book is to provide a guide to building a common body of knowledge that will equip researchers in Information and Communication Sciences with the skills they need to characterize communicative thinking through its essential principles: information and communication. Two concepts that are closely connected, yet different. They are rival "sisters", at once inseparable and opposed to each other. They maintain a relationship of container to content, rather like the envelope and the letter.It's not easy to define exactly how they relate to each other, or to delimit their respective domains. Information and communication cover immense fields and take on multiple aspects. Even if there is an intrinsic relationship between the two concepts, it is necessary to emphasize the need for autonomy that each of these notions claims, by becoming a separate object of study in its own right in the information and communication sciences. On the one hand, there's information, which can be described as "information science" (I.S.) or "informatology".