The autopoietic state: Communication and democratic potential in the net Academic Article

abstract

• The relationship between the practice of democracy and the use of new information technologies is dependent upon the technologies of communication and information, rules regarding the use of those technologies, and the nature of the entity making rules regarding those technologies. Since today developments in all three of these areas are turbulent, this article looks to social theory that deals with turbulence and chaos as a way of understanding the democratic potential in the qualitatively different network society. The streams of literature drawn upon include secondorder cybernetics and chaos theory, organizational sociology, and the literature on the state. The concept of the autopoietic state is developed as a basis for determining appropriate communication policy principles for maximizing the democratic potential in the network environment. 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

authors

• Braman, Sandra

published proceedings

• Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

author list (cited authors)

• Braman, S.

citation count

• 27

complete list of authors

• Braman, Sandra

publication date

• July 1994

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology  Journal

keywords

• 46 Information And Computing Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199407)45:6<358::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-c

start page

• 358

end page

• 368

volume

• 45

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199407)45:6%3C358::aid-asi2%3E3.0.co;2-c