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Content Moderation zwischen Anstandsdame, Schiedsrichter und Zensor? Zu Formen der Kommunikationskontrolle und ihren Folgeproblemen

Global Media Journal: German Edition
This article examines content moderation (CM) from a systems theoretical perspective as a form of communication control. Rather than pursuing normative or legal classifications, CM is understood as a practical problem within communicative systems.
Lukas Beckmann, Sebastian Suttner, Björn Wiegärtner   +2 more
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
wiley   +1 more source

A Pandemic of Possibilities: The Spread of Potentiality-Seeking Organisations under Conditions of the COVID-19 Lockdown

Journal of Organizational Sociology
The premise of this paper is that an adequate understanding of the impact the pandemic had upon society presupposes an adequate theory of society. This must include a theory of the various systems and organisations that compose society and that were ...
Andersen Niels Åkerstrøm, Carli Giacomo, Stenner Paul, Tagliaventi Maria Rita   +3 more
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
wiley   +1 more source

FAMILY AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM AND HOMEGARDEN AGROECOSYSTEM: CONCEPTUAL THEORETICAL MODEL FROM THE LUHMANNIAN THEORY

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2019
The objective of the present essay is to present a conceptual theoretical model for the study of the homegarden from Luhmann's agroecological approach and theory of autopoietic social systems, from which the family is conceptualized as a social system ...
Patricia Cruz-Bautista, Lorena Casanova-Pérez, Juan Pablo Martinez-Davila, Clemente Flores-Martinez, Isaac Villegas-Rodriguez   +4 more
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The Non-linear Dynamics of Meaning-Processing in Social Systems

, 2009
Social order cannot be considered as a stable phenomenon because it contains an order of reproduced expectations. When the expectations operate upon one another, they generate a non-linear dynamics that processes meaning.
Andersen, P.B., Arthur, W.B., Baecker, D., Baecker, D., Baecker, D., Bertsekas, D.P., Bhaskar, R., Cornell, D., Coveney, P., Devaney, R., Dosi, G., Elmer, J., Giddens, A., Gilbert, G.N., Grant, C. B., Grathoff, R., Habermas, J., Hayami, Y., Hobbes, T., Husserl, E., Kron, T., Kuhn, T.S., Künzler, J., Laland, K.N., Lewontin, R., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Loet Leydesdorff, Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Lévi-Strauss, C., Marx, K., Maturana, H.R., May, R.M., Nelson, R.R., Parsons, T., Parsons, T., Parsons, T., Rosen, R., Sahal, D., Sahal, D., Schumpeter, J., Schumpeter, J.A., Schutz, A., Schütz, A., Schütz, A., Schützeichel, R., Spencer Brown, G., Toulmin, S., Turing, A.M., Waddington, C.H.   +63 more
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Members Only—The Emergence of the Business Family as a Professionalized and Differentiated Organizational System

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The importance of business families is increasingly gaining attention. However, to truly understand business families and their dynamics, they must be viewed as distinct systems. Since this area has received limited scholarly focus, we argue that forming a new system is more than just an extension.
Heiko Kleve, Theresa Arnold, Simon Caspary   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Triple Helix, Quadruple Helix, . . ., and an N-tuple of Helices: Explanatory Models for Analyzing the Knowledge-based Economy? [PDF]

, 2011
Using the Triple Helix model of university-industry-government relations, one can measure the extent to which innovation has become systemic instead of assuming the existence of national (or regional) systems of innovations on a priori grounds ...
Leydesdorff, Loet
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

The Logic of Identitizing Management:

Maketingu Janaru
This paper explores the logic of organization in which the majority of people, who are not particularly outstanding, can work creatively in the long-term under top-level support.
Shin Ichiro Irie
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