Opening and closing : strategies of information adaptation in society / Orrin E. Klapp.
Series: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series in sociologyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978.Description: x, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 052121923X :
- 0521293111
- 301.14 22 KLA
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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.
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