Second, with regard to the abandonment of the subjectivity-objectivity opposition, information is described as having a certain commonality . Information is something basically human which should be in principle accessible to everyone. Modern knowledge is something common, shared by a community, for instance by a scientific community. Third, with regard to the abandonment of the idea that knowledge is something separate from the knower, there is the notion of mediation . Modern information technology disseminates all kinds of knowledge all the time to everyone in a way prefigured by printing.
Information becomes part and parcel of media, becomes a medium.
In sum, the characteristics of fragmentation, commonality, and mediation point toward the nature of information, its present shape at the end of modernity. In setting up for example a bibliographic database, the fragmentation of information forces us to create the conditions of possibility for the retrieval of the pieces because their common context remains tacit. The partialization opens the possibility for different perspectives of interpretation. In the same way, a database creator must pre-define the field of knowledge, which is usually dealt with via a classification scheme. The terminology of the field is objectivized in a thesaurus.