Luhmann and the media
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Welcome to MedieKultur! This special issue is dedicated to the media theory of German sociologist and systems theorist Niklas Luhmann. We begin this introduction with an overview of his theory and end it with a brief presentation of the articles included in this issue, which utilise the theory in many different ways, and try to use it to conceptualise and understand many different phenomena, from Facebook to artificial intelligence.
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Korzybski, Luhmann, and McLuhan
This paper revisits an earlier study of the common ground shared by Alfred Korzybski, founder of general semantics, and Marshall McLuhan, the central figure in media ecology, and makes explicit the use of systems theory to bridge the gap between the two. Following a brief summary of the systems approach and its relationship to the media ecology intellectual tradition, sociologist Niklas Luhmann...
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"I met profesor Luhmann in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1992; he was there to talk about his theory. He was so kind to all of us. I can't forget his smile and his powerful arguments about the theory of systems and Autopoisis. By that time I was a student in the University of Guadalajara. After the seminar of a WHOLE WEEK, he spent some time talking only with 6 of us during two hrs. He talked about his ...
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Zusammenfassung. Wissen, Medien und Design entfalten gemeinsam eine sozio-technische Dynamik, die das neue Forschungsund Praxisfeld des Knowledge Media Designs (KMD) begründet. Hier treffen sich theoretische, gestalterische und technische Fächer, die neue Methoden und Forschungsformate entsprechend ihren erweiterten Wirkungsmöglichkeiten entwickeln. Unter dem Aspekt der Gestaltung werden in der...
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تاریخ انتشار 2010