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dc.contributor.authorShelton A. Gunaratnevi
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-24T01:58:28Z-
dc.date.available2025-04-24T01:58:28Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.citationAsian Journal of Communication. - 2008. - Vol.18, No.3. - P.175 - 192vi
dc.identifier.issn0129-2986-
dc.identifier.urihttp://elib.hcmussh.edu.vn/handle/HCMUSSH/141851-
dc.description.abstractWhat we call systems theory is more a metatheory than a monolithic theory. It has provided a set of common signposts for all systems theorists to follow. This paper, written from the perspective of communications scholarship, examines the transition of systems theory from the age of equilibrium to the age of entropy during the middle of the twentieth century, and then to the age of emergence at the end of the century. It distinguishes between the old equilibrium-based systems theory and the entropy-based systems theory, as well as the ‘new’ emergence-centered social systems theory. It asserts the existence of close similarities between the fundamental concepts of systems theory and Asian philosophies, despite the cynical dismissal of these similarities by a Luhmann disciple. It documents how media sociology has applied chaos theory to justify market-driven journalism and claim the emergence of a global public sphere; and it looks at the potential of network analysis, an offshoot of systems theory.vi
dc.language.isoenvi
dc.publisherDepartment of Mass Communications, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN, USAvi
dc.subjectCommunications researchvi
dc.subjectEntropyvi
dc.subjectEquilibriumvi
dc.subjectNonlinear dynamicsvi
dc.subjectSystems theoryvi
dc.subject.ddc300vi
dc.titleUnderstanding systems theory: transition from equilibrium to entropyvi
dc.typeArticlevi
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