Editing Information theory (section)

===Semiotics===
[[Semiotics|Semioticians]] {{ill|Doede Nauta|nl}} and [[Winfried Nöth]] both considered [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] as having created a theory of information in his works on semiotics.<ref name="Nauta 1972">{{cite book |last1=Nauta |first1=Doede |title=The Meaning of Information |date=1972 |publisher=Mouton |location=The Hague |isbn=9789027919960}}</ref>{{rp|171}}<ref name="Nöth 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Nöth |first1=Winfried |title=Charles S. Peirce's theory of information: a theory of the growth of symbols and of knowledge |journal=Cybernetics and Human Knowing |date=January 2012 |volume=19 |issue=1–2 |pages=137–161 |url=https://edisciplinas.usp.br/mod/resource/view.php?id=2311849}}</ref>{{rp|137}} Nauta defined semiotic information theory as the study of "''the internal processes of coding, filtering, and information processing.''"<ref name="Nauta 1972"/>{{rp|91}}

Concepts from information theory such as redundancy and code control have been used by semioticians such as [[Umberto Eco]] and {{ill|Ferruccio Rossi-Landi|it}} to explain ideology as a form of message transmission whereby a dominant social class emits its message by using signs that exhibit a high degree of redundancy such that only one message is decoded among a selection of competing ones.<ref>Nöth, Winfried (1981). "[https://kobra.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/2014122246977/semi_2004_002.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Semiotics of ideology]". ''Semiotica'', Issue 148.</ref>