Information as commodity and economic sector: Its emergence in the discourse of industrial classification

Cheryl Knott Malone and Fernando Elichirigoity

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003, vol. 54, issue 6, 512-520

Abstract: In a critical analysis of the recent development and deployment of the North American Industry Classification System, this article focuses on the discourse surrounding the creation of the system's “information” category. A close reading of the relevant government documents suggests that the category functions simultaneously to position information as a major sector of the economy and to organize data about information as a commodity. The discourse also points to the continuing complexities involved in conceptualizing information as a measurable object.

Date: 2003
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