Introduction

If information has a natural habitat, it is its media. Information depends on mediation: its ability to travel and to be communicated requires tools, avenues, or channels to get from point A to point B, from sender to receiver. Information can travel or flow, it can be a signal, a bit, a message, a sign, or a fact, and we can receive, obtain, derive, decode, or calculate it. All of these descriptions of information’s behavior and our behavior towards information represent a small part in the complex network of mediating practices. Thinking about the difference between the information in a