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C. Fuchs:
"The Role of the Individual in the Social Information Process";
Talk: Electronic Conference on Foundations of Information Science: The Nature of Information: Conceptions, Misconceptions, and Paradoxes, -; 2002-05-02 - 2002-05-06; in: "Papers from the Foundations of Information Science 2002 (FIS 2002)", P. Marijuan, S. Lin (ed.); Entropy, 5, 1 (2003), 34 - 60.

The aim of this paper is to point out which role the individual plays in the generation of information in social systems. First, it is argued that the individual is a social, self-conscious, creative, reflective, cultural, symbol- and language-using, active natural, producing, labouring, objective, corporeal, living, real, sensuous, visionary, imaginative, designing, co-operative being that makes its own history and can strive towards freedom and autonomy. Based on these assumptions the re-creation/self-organisation of social systems is described as a dialectic of actions and social structures and as a dialectic of individual information and social information. The individual enters economic, political and cultural relationships that result in the emergence and differentiation of social (i.e. economic, political and cultural) information which enables and constrains individual actions and thinking. Individuals as actors in social systems are indispensable for social self-organisation.

http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/papers/e5010034.pdf