The Reality of the Mass Media

Niklas Luhmann; Kathleen Cross

doi:10.1515/9781503619227

Abstract

1. Differentiation as a Doubling of Reality. 2. Self-reference and other-reference. 3. Coding. 4. System-specific Universalism. 5. News and In-Depth Reporting. 6. Ricupero. 7. Advertising. 8. Entertainment. 9. Unity and Structural Couplings. 10. Individuals. 11. The Construction of Reality. 12. The Reality of Construction. 13. The Function of the Mass Media. 14. The Public. 15. Schema Formation. 16. Second-order Cybernetics as Paradox. Notes. Index.

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Mass mediaEntertainmentSchema (genetic algorithms)UniversalismCyberneticsEpistemologyAdvertisingComputer sciencePhilosophyPolitical scienceBusinessLawInformation retrieval

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                                    Niklas Luhmann, 
                                
                                    Kathleen Cross
                                
                            (2000). 
                            The Reality of the Mass Media. 
                            Stanford University Press eBooks
                            
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                            https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503619227

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DOI: 10.1515/9781503619227