In Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explore the structure of language and metaphor as a reflection of meaning established through both individual and social experience.  Lakoff and Johnson introduce readers to several categories of metaphor applied in every day language and continue to argue that all metaphorical concepts are culturally constructed. 
 
In Chapter 30, Lakoff and Johnson discuss how difficult it can be to achieve mutual understanding when people do not share the same culture, knowledge, values and assumptions (231).  The discussions of truth and understanding …

I want to first thank Don for enthusiastically welcoming the idea of my graduate students in Information Architecture posting to the IAOC blog—a blog that I have come to read often and respect quite a bit. I first thought of having my students post here because online communication is essentially about the movement and transmission of information in electronic environments. What better topic for the blog than one that asks students to investigate how information in various media (on- and off-line) is organized, structured, and distributed.
Students are going to be …