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The development of discursive knowledge presumes the communication of meaningas analytically different from the communication of information. Knowledge canthen be considered as a meaning which makes a difference. Whereas thecommunication of information is studied in the information sciences andscientometrics, the communication of meaning has been central to Luhmann'sattempts to make the theory of autopoiesis relevant for sociology. Analyticaltechniques such as semantic maps and the simulation of anticipatory systemsenable us to operationalize the distinctions which Luhmann proposed as relevantto the elaboration of Husserl's "horizons of meaning" in empirical research:interactions among communications, the organization of meaning ininstantiations, and the self-organization of interhuman communication in termsof symbolically generalized media such as truth, love, and power. Horizons ofmeaning, however, remain uncertain orders of expectations, and one shouldcaution against reification from the meta-biological perspective of systemstheory.

"Meaning" as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning