Open AccessInternet Dynamics and the Theory of Social Systems
Author(s) -
Marco Bastos
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
mediekultur
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1901-9726
pISSN - 0900-9671
DOI - 10.7146/mediekultur.v26i49.2453
Subject(s) - autopoiesis , the internet , section (typography) , serialization , perspective (graphical) , sociology , systems theory , german , epistemology , social system , computer science , dynamics (music) , social science , world wide web , linguistics , artificial intelligence , pedagogy , philosophy , operating system
This article presents a Luhmannian perspective of the internet. The first section summarizes the contributions of German sociologist Niklas Luhmann and outlines the theoretical boundaries between the theory of social systems and that of media studies. The second section addresses the Internet and offers some preliminary concepts, derived from a social system’s perspective, to understand this medium as an autopoietic system. This section will describe internet communication through four sociocybernetic concepts: serialization, netclustering, selection and nodes.