| Contents |
Part 1: Communicating. An alternative paradigm ; Epistemological grounding ; Major communication metaphors ; A recursive framework for communication theories ; Conversation or intellectual imperialism -- Part 2: Otherness. The otherness that theory creates ; A cybernetics of I-other relations ; Pathology, power, and emancipation ; Writing ecologically -- Part 3: Meaning. A constructivist critique of semiotics ; The dialogical meaning of cultural artifacts ; The methodo-logic of content analysis ; Discourse as systematically constrained conversation -- Part 4: Information. An introduction to information theory ; Research in-formation ; Paradox and information ; Cyberspace and its artifacts ; Social memory. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-357) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008033606 |
| ISBN | 9780415978590 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415978606 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780203894804 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0203894804 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0415978599 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415978602 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
