2017
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2017v42n3a3190
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The Flux of Communication: Innis, Wiener, and the Perils of Positive Feedback

Abstract: Background In the early 1940s, two men from different disciplinary contexts converged on three concerns: information, its dynamics, and the pathologies stemming from those dynamics. Norbert Wiener studied these concerns from the context of mechanical and biological systems. Harold Innis viewed them from the perspective of political, social, and cultural systems.Analysis  The purpose of this study is to establish this commonality, and consider its implications for two histories, those of the Cybernetic and Toro… Show more

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