Communication and the Control Revolution

Beniger, James R.

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“…Initial steps toward a single and comprehensive science of information were taken by James R. Beniger [1] and Klaus Haefner [2,3]. The interest in constructing a science of information as a transdisciplinary field of research continued to grow and was reflected in works such as J. K. De Vree [4], Tom Stonier [5][6][7], Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski [8], Søren Brier [9], Mark Burgin [10] and Wolfgang Hofkirchner [11], to cite but a few.…”

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Pragmatic Information as a Unifying Biological Concept

Maleeh

2014

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This paper aims to introduce a developed reading of Roederer's interpretation of pragmatic information as a good candidate for a Unifying Information Concept required for an as-yet-unavailable Science of Information. According to pragmatic information, information and information processing are exclusive attributes of biological systems related to the very definition of life. I will apply the notion to give new accounts in the following areas: (1) quantum interpretation: based on a modified version of David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics, I propose an ontological, information-based interpretation of quantum mechanics which, unlike Roederer's interpretation, satisfies all conditions of pragmatic information; (2) artificial intelligence: the notion successfully distinguishes natural living systems from artifacts and natural non-living systems, providing a context to pose an information-based argument against the thesis of Strong Artificial Intelligence; (3) phenomenal consciousness: I will use pragmatic information to modify and update Chalmers's Double-aspect Theory of Information to be explanatorily more powerful regarding the physical aspect of his theory; (4) causation: based on pragmatic information, I pose a new account of causation which differentiates causation in biology from causation in natural abiotic world.

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Pragmatic Information as a Unifying Biological Concept

Maleeh

2014

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“…By 1945 most of the workforce in the industrialized West was occupied in immaterial labor; theoretical knowledge had become a strategic resource both in the private and in the public sectors; and social systems of production and administration were subject to increasing measures of technological coordination. Beniger (1986) offered the further, important specification that information technologies and other systems of coordination did not replace previous technologies or forms of production but rather helped to solve a "crisis of control" in the decades around 1900: Both the scale of material production and the related need for social integration had reached a degree of complexity that required a "control revolution"-as implemented in part through information and communication technologies. These accounts drew attention to the structural continuity between an "industrial society" and an "information society": Industrial society had generated both massive productive capacities and acute problems of how to administer and legitimate these capacities through publicly available information and communication technologies of deliberation and debate-"the media.…”

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Intermediality

Jensen

2016

The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy

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Intermediality refers to the interconnectedness of modern media of communication. First, the term denotes communication through several discourses at once, including through combinations of different sensory modalities of interaction, for instance music and moving images. Second, intermediality represents the combination of separate material vehicles of representation, as illustrated by the use of print, electronic, and digital platforms in various communication activities. Third, intermediality addresses the interrelations among various media as institutions in society—interrelations addressed in technological and economic terms such as convergence and concentration.

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“…In the first place, it should be noted that the issues of automation of decision and control (Beniger, 1986;Molina and Flores, 1999;Blasi and Ferran, 2002;Neck, 2003;Kopacek and Stapleton, 2004;Sgurev et al, 2004;Stahre and Martenson, 2004;Erbe and Llanes-Snatiago, 2007;Dimirovski and Ulengin, 2007) to applications in order to enhance accelerated but sustainable progress in developing countries towards proper and fruitful use of automatic control technologies are somewhat specific. Moreover, it should be noted that this is a process that is not yet entirely understood and still remains somewhat vague (Zadeh, 1984;Dimirovski et al, 2006).…”

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Systems Approaches to Sustainable Advancement of Developing Countries: Recent Contributions

Stankovski

Gören

Kolemisevska-Gugulovska

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IFAC Proceedings Volumes

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Advanced information technologies resulting from automation of control and decision expertise and their respective scientific disciplines have essential impacts on the development of national economies within the more and more globalized economy hence a decisive role in ameliorating current socioeconomic problems in developing countries. Recent developments have put new emphasis on the IFAC activities dedicated to help improving the technological background of developing countries so as to assists their sustainable but accelerated developments. It is important to keep the focus should be on innovative systems approaches to combined knowledge and technology transfer to developing countries that may remedy their current state of the matters.

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Communication and the Control Revolution

Cited by 17 publications

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Pragmatic Information as a Unifying Biological Concept

Pragmatic Information as a Unifying Biological Concept

Intermediality

Systems Approaches to Sustainable Advancement of Developing Countries: Recent Contributions

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