... environments may provide opportunities for engaging with observational practices compatible with complex systems. This perspective may be relevant for educational, training, and communication contexts in which individuals are required to engage with uncertainty, distributed information, opacity, and multiple...

... reflexive accounts of observation. It shows that cybernetics is particularly suited to phenomena in which family and business recursively constitute, irritate and transform one another through communication, feedback, conflict, paradox and observation. Design/methodology/approach The article reviews...

...Yiannis Laouris Purpose To formalize Watzlawick, Beavin and Jackson’s pragmatics of human communication as a level-separated, testable axiom system suitable for second-order cybernetics, so that paradox, reflexivity and context-dependence are treated as phenomena to be modeled rather than...

...Hermin Indah Wahyuni Purpose This article seeks to discuss trust within the context of public health crises using an autopoietic systems perspective that positions communication as one of its core concepts. This article will explore trust studies conducted during public health crises...

... rights only Internet Networking Communication Information systems With the development of technology day by day, there is a rapid development and change in the digital transformation process in social life. In the technology era of the 21st century, there are many changes in terms...

... of Knowledge Providing Mechanism, Perception of Vaccine Safety Measures, Health Care Infrastructure Capabilities and Fear of Coronavirus (Coronaphobia). The study implication assists communication strategists and stakeholders design effective communication strategies using digital platforms. The study reveals...

... for a reflection about the contingency of communication in social media. Does social media make the experience of communication in the digital space more contingent (providing it with more possibilities, with people accessing different contents and ideas) or less contingent (reducing the available possibilities...

...Ayumi Higuchi Purpose This study aims to review Luhmann's theory of moral communication while focusing on symmetry conditions, in light of Armin Nassehi's criticism, to clarify issues regarding this concept. Then, Luhmann's symmetry condition is reconstructed as a concept containing double meaning...

...Jacob A. Miller Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the US society’s insignificant mitigation of climate change using Niklas Luhmann’s ( 1989 ) autopoietic social systems theory in ecological communication. Specifically, the author’s analysis falls within the context of Luhmann re...

... Communication The public sphere sounds like a location, periphery or region. The phrase can conjure up images of sidewalks, town squares, coffee houses and bars. The theory of the public sphere suggests that in these spaces, individuals – for the most part – follow certain rules and observe polite norms...

...). This study tests the impact of six factors (coordination, communication, relationship building, cohesion, trust and reward) on team performance. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach via self-administered questionnaire was adopted. A total of 205 questionnaires were successfully collected...

... serve as a practical means in the analysis of communication and behavior of actors in the political power processes. Krzysztof Kasianiuk can be contacted at: krzysztof.kasianiuk@civitas.edu.pl © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only...

...Daniel Joh. Adriaenssen; Dagny Johannessen; Jon-Arild Johannessen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve the theoretical understanding of the communicative processes in social systems. Design/methodology/approach Conceptual generalisation. Findings Aspects of a communications...

... stakeholders, especially the healthcare providers, and information technology staff. Many research results also indicate that poor communication easily results in negative consequences during the implementation of the medical information system. To effectively overcome this obstacle, the purpose of this paper...

... that extracts or generates meaning, with the distinction between extracting or generating meaning corresponding to the distinction between semantic and environmental information. A diagrammatic convention based on communications theory and making use of hierarchies of levels is found to provide a powerful means...

... interaction between ethnic groups and enhance effective cross-border collaboration, including tourism. Poor knowledge of neighbouring countries' languages submits communities to third languages and hinders these trans-border experiences, making the regions a shared destiny maintaining their cultures...

... of Perception”. Design/methodology/approach All of The Entropy Theory, 35 years of publications, was scrutinized for its characterization of what underlies Shannon Information Theory: Shannon's “general communication system”. There, “events” are passed by a “source” to a “transmitter”, thence through...

.... Findings The paper suggests models and approaches for strategic management. It shows the inadequacy of a subject‐object management model for industrial or regional governance. It integrates a communicative management approach, complexity management methods, the USSR's Gosplan experience of long‐term...

...Raul Espejo; Roland Holten; Christoph Rosenkranz Purpose The viable system model (VSM) provides a way to understand communication structures in an organization. It gives us a means to visualize and analyze information channels relating the functions in an enterprise, a corporation, or any other...

... Publishing Limited 2009 --> Codes Cybernetics Communication Redundancy The animal kingdom has already influenced many technological innovative systems, cyberneticians and systemists have for decades learnt a great deal from animal behaviour and have applied it in both their theoretical...