MIT 144F: Week3
Key Concepts from the Fink (1989) Article

Can you elaborate on what Fink has to say about the following?:

General terms and concepts:

• Information as resource
• Information as substitute for labour, capital and physical materials
• Information explosion
• Post-industrial society
• Fricks information processing model
• Politics of information
• Propaganda
• Publishing decisions
• Acquisition decisions
• Organization decisions
• Access issues
• Source issues
• World views

Critical thinking concepts:

• Role of assumption
• Role of judgment
• Role of analysis
• Role of bias
• Role of synthesis
• Frame of reference
• Dialectic reasoning