1st Edition

On Communicating Otherness, Meaning, and Information

Edited By Fernando Bermejo, Klaus Krippendorff Copyright 2009
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    Klaus Krippendorff is an influential figure in communication studies widely known for his award-winning book Content Analysis. Over the years, Krippendorff has made important contributions to the ongoing debates on fundamental issues concerning communication theory, epistemology, methods of research, critical scholarship, second-order cybernetics, the social construction of reality through language, design, and meaning. On Communicating assembles Krippendorff’s most significant writings – many of which are virtually unavailable today, appearing in less accessible publications, conference proceedings, out-of-print book chapters, and articles in journals outside the communication field. In their totality, they provide a goldmine for communication students and scholars. Edited and with an introduction by Fernando Bermejo, this book provides readers with access to Krippendorff’s key works.

    Introduction

    Part 1: Communicating

    Chapter 1. An Alternative Paradigm

    Chapter 2. Epistemological Grounding

    Chapter 3. Major Communication Metaphors

    Chapter 4. A Recursive Framework for Communication Theories

    Chapter 5. Conversation or Intellectual Imperialism

    Part 2: Otherness

    Chapter 6. The Otherness that Theory Creates

    Chapter 7. A Cybernetics of I-Other Relations

    Chapter 8. Pathology, Power and Emancipation

    Chapter 9. Writing Ecologically

    Part 3: Meaning

    Chapter 10. A Constructivist Critique of Semiotics

    Chapter 11. The Dialogical Meaning of Cultural Artifacts

    Chapter 12. The Methodo-logic of Content Analysis

    Chapter 13. Discourse as Systematically Constrained Conversation

    Part 4: Information

    Chapter 14. An Introduction to Information Theory

    Chapter 15. Research In-Formation

    Chapter 16. Paradox and Information

    Chapter 17. Cyberspace and its Artifacts

    Chapter 18. Social Memory

    References

    Biography

    Klaus Krippendorff is Gregory Bateson Term Professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His landmark book Content Analysis, now in its second edition, has been translated into Hungarian, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish.

    Fernando Bermejo teaches Communication at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and an MA from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.