INFORMATION NEEDS AS RELATIONS IN THE INFORMATION FIELD

Author(s): Tyagunov A.M.

Rubric: Information technology

DOI: 10.21777/2500-2112-2021-2-50-56

Release: 2021-2 (35)

Pages: 50-56

Keywords: need, information need, information field, information resources, relations

Annotation: The article examines the properties of information needs of subjects and ways of representing them in the information field. A social system or a person are subjects of the information field and have information needs. The relevance of the study is due to the need to develop scientific and methodological foundations for building information models of the needs of subjects. The article examines various types of needs and highlights their characteristic features. Highlighted the universal mechanisms of the emergence of needs: signal, motivational, implementation, evaluative. The content of these mechanisms is revealed. Three variants of the definition of the concept of "information need" are given, the features of their reflection in the information field are revealed. The presence of the law of increasing information needs is shown. The conditions for satisfying the needs and information needs have been determined. The content of the concept "need for information resources" is revealed. It is shown that the resource is a necessary factor in meeting the demand.

Bibliography: Tyagunov A.M. INFORMATION NEEDS AS RELATIONS IN THE INFORMATION FIELD // Education Resources and Technologies. – 2021. – № 2 (35). – С. 50-56. doi: 10.21777/2500-2112-2021-2-50-56