2. Structuring of information based upon the notion of scope, which may be understood as a viewpoint or a way of looking and analyzing something.
Polyscopic information is presented in terms of different aspects which intuitively correspond to "sides" or "angles of looking". The aspects may reflect different reader categories, ways of looking at the subject, etc.
To see the naturalness of the polyscopic presentation, it is useful to think of inspecting a hand-held object. Naturally, a person uses the capacity of the hand to turn the object at different angles and take it closer or farther from the eye to explore the object.
In a similar way, polyscopic information structuring facilitates the active exploration of a presented subject.
Polyscopic information structuring supports "holistic" or "multiple-perspective" thinking. This way of thinking is especially relevant in the post-industrial era, where it has become increasingly important that both technical, socio-cultural, political, and other aspects of an issue be taken into account in decision making.
In a similar way, the polyscopic structuring of information also supports active, exploratory learning.