TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klapp,Orrin Edgar
TI  - Opening and closing: strategies of information adaptation in society 
T2  - The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
SN  - 052121923X :
U1  - 301.14 22
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Communication
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Stress (Psychology)
KW  - Information theory
N1  - Contents;

1. Social noise 
A broader conception of noise 
How, when, why, and to whom is noise a problem?

2. Opening and closing in open societies 
A natural rhythm 
The information game of opening and closing 

3. The feast of the media 
Information hunger
The advancing wave 
Fading indigenous signals 
The media flood 

4. When information turns into noise 
Information overload 
Coping with information overload 
Societal lags and the absurdity of systems 
Some hypotheses about social noise 

5. Entropic communication 
The great slide 
Contagions 
Bewitchment 
Bad guys Modeling noise 
etc.

6. Good redundancy: Identity as playback 
Lost past 
Uses of redundancy 
Lack of reinforcement 
Banality as noise 
Critique of modernism 

7. Theory of opening and closing 
Ingrouping 
The communication 
Discovery is closure 
The game of life 
Information imbalance 
Strategies of coping 

8. Movements and possibilities 
Human scale 
The monk's solution 
Mosaic of life-styles: A pattern for tomorrow?
The surge of new religions: Who is the guru?
Conclusion 

; Bibliography : p. 207-220 . _ Index : p. 221-226
ER  -