... is that echo chambers are social systems of interaction created to deal with the process of informational overload brought about by the consolidation of digital media in people’s daily lives. Design/methodology/approach The author used Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems to explain what the author...

... and the notion of the general will or common sense. This common outcome must then function as an elementary quality or matter of principle (see “Natural Law and Revolution” in Habermas, 1974). Likewise, symbolic interactionism uses the idea of generalisation when referring, for instance, to the generalised...

...Helmut Nechansky Purpose The paper aims to relate the four modes of coexistence of goal-orientated systems – conflict, hierarchy, the niche and cooperation – to static behavioral descriptions of social systems. Design/methodology/approach Analyzing the options for interactions of goal...

... cybernetic framework is suitable for the analysis of such a complex process, as long as both the constructive and the interactive aspects of a self‐organising system are taken under consideration. Practical implications The modelling of the complex design process under the framework of second‐order...

...Dale Thomas Describes a system designed for public use as an “edutainment” system. It allows a user to direct the evolution of three‐dimensional shapes as a form of interactive art. The objects under evolution are defined by artificial DNA, which ultimately defines their final form...

... of the processes in real plant DNA. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Cybernetics Virtual reality Interaction One of the Contact Consortium's special interest groups, called Biota.org, was chartered in mid 1996 to develop virtual worlds using techniques from the Alife field. Its first effort is Nerve...

...James M. Bradburne Here I recall fondly times spent with Gordon and acknowledge his influence on my ideas and work. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Interaction Museums Sometimes things catch you off guard. I heard of Gordon’s death in June 1996 towards the end of a protracted dinner...

...Ernst von Glasersfeld It was a rare pleasure to have known Gordon Pask. Here is a brief tribute. Interaction Language © MCB UP Limited 2001 I first heard about Gordon Pask in the early 1960s when I received a contract from the US Air Force to do research in computational...

...Gerard de Zeeuw Gordon Pask developed not only a conversation theory, but also a (less well‐known) interaction of actors theory, partly in response to demands during the time he worked in Amsterdam. The paper aims to clarify how this theory intended to minimise the effects of use on scientific...

... (Barnes, 1997). He defined epistemology as the premises for our understanding of systems. It is “the science that studies the process of knowing” (including its own), or “how knowing is done” (Bateson and Bateson, 1987, pp. 9, 20, 97). (To study process is to study action and interaction and how...

...Ranulph Glanville Pask’s great contribution to cybernetics is to take seriously the notion of interaction in the circular processes that lie at the heart of the subject. From his earliest days he worked with interactive systems. His master work, conversation theory, epitomises the interactive...

...Pablo Navarro Approaches Pask’s conversation theory from a sociological perspective. Pask’s vision of conversation as a self‐organising process can help our understanding of the emergence of social order out of social interaction. Through conversation, human beings would be able to construct...

...Nick Green Recalls times spent in Gordon Pask’s company and the discussions with the author on a wide range of topics, but focusing especially on foundational issues in science and cybernetics and developments in Pask’s own conversation theory and interaction of actors theory. “Pask’s last...

...Masudul Alam Choudhury Uses the theory of knowledge‐based interactions to explain the idea of systems as extensive organismic interrelationships. Shows such extensive interactions to be possible only in the fold of a unitary epistemology, which in turn, describes the evolving histories of human...

...M. Ndour; K. Abbaoui; H. Ammar; Y. Cherruault Describes the use of the decomposition method for solving the differential system governing the interaction between two species, based on the Lotka‐Volterra model. The Alienor method is applied for identifying the parameters of the model, which...