Information channel is a term of library, information and philology published in 2019. It comes from the first edition of Library, Information and philology Terms.
The circulation channel of information in the transmission process through coding. In the information theory, the information channel should be able to guarantee the one-way and multi-directional flow of information, and eliminate the interference of the outside world on the information transmission. In social activities, information channels not only consist of communication facilities, but also include people who transmit information, that is, the channels formed by people using facilities. According to the composition of information channel, it can be divided into one-way channel, two-way channel, multi-directional channel and network channel.
Library, Information and Philology Terms, first edition. [1]