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The reality of the mass media / Niklas Luhmann ; translated by Kathleen Cross.
LIBRA HM1206 .L8313 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Standardized Title:
- Realität der Massenmedien. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Audiences.
- Communication--Social aspects.
- Communication.
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- 1 Differentiation as a Doubling of Reality 1
- 2 Self-reference and Other-reference 10
- 3 Coding 15
- 4 System-specific Universalism 23
- 5 News and In-depth Reporting 25
- 6 Ricupero 42
- 7 Advertising 44
- 8 Entertainment 51
- 9 Unity and Structural Couplings 63
- 10 Individuals 71
- 11 The Construction of Reality 76
- 12 The Reality of Construction 88
- 13 The Function of the Mass Media 95
- 14 The Public 103
- 15 Schema Formation 107
- 16 Second-order Cybernetics as Paradox 117.
- Notes:
- "First published in German as Die Realität der Massenmedien, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1996 (second, enlarged edition)"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [123]-149) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804740763
- 0804740771
- OCLC:
- 44879870
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