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On communicating : otherness, meaning, and information /

By: Krippendorff, Klaus.
Contributor(s): Bermejo, Fernando [ed.].
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2009Description: vi, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415978599 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780415978590:; 9780415978590 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0415978602 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780415978606 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Information theory | Cybernetics | Knowledge, Theory of | Communication -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 302.2
Contents:
Part 1: Communicating. An alternative paradigm ; Epistemological grounding ; Major communication metaphors ; A recursive framework for communication theories ; Conversation or intellectual imperialism -- Part 2: Otherness. The otherness that theory creates ; A cybernetics of I-other relations ; Pathology, power, and emancipation ; Writing ecologically -- Part 3: Meaning. A constructivist critique of semiotics ; The dialogical meaning of cultural artifacts ; The methodo-logic of content analysis ; Discourse as systematically constrained conversation -- Part 4: Information. An introduction to information theory ; Research in-formation ; Paradox and information ; Cyberspace and its artifacts ; Social memory.
Summary: Over the years, Klaus Krippendorff has made important contributions to a host of fundamental issues concerning communication scholarship. 'On Communicating' assembles Krippendorff's most influential writings in the communication field.
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Part 1: Communicating. An alternative paradigm ; Epistemological grounding ; Major communication metaphors ; A recursive framework for communication theories ; Conversation or intellectual imperialism -- Part 2: Otherness. The otherness that theory creates ; A cybernetics of I-other relations ; Pathology, power, and emancipation ; Writing ecologically -- Part 3: Meaning. A constructivist critique of semiotics ; The dialogical meaning of cultural artifacts ; The methodo-logic of content analysis ; Discourse as systematically constrained conversation -- Part 4: Information. An introduction to information theory ; Research in-formation ; Paradox and information ; Cyberspace and its artifacts ; Social memory.

Over the years, Klaus Krippendorff has made important contributions to a host of fundamental issues concerning communication scholarship. 'On Communicating' assembles Krippendorff's most influential writings in the communication field.

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