Most communication research and most applications of that research
acknowledge the process nature of communication. However, the
material following that acknowledgment confirms to traditional
linear and static approaches treating communication as little more
than printed text. This Print Paradigm persists despite repeated
calls to explore the more dynamic nature of communication. In this
second edition, the author updates and expands his argument that
communication is a process analogous to the complexity in other
living systems. Complexity theory models biological principles
similar to how chaos theory treats chemical and physical processes.
The book begins with a review of philosophical and social
psychological thought as a basis for explaining the mathematical
and natural science models. The volume reviews a remarkable range
of material stretching over three centuries. The author explains
complicated concepts in a simple and often whimsical way and uses
practical as well as research examples to bring technical ideas to
a wide audience. The author develops paradigmatic principles and
then describes the process of information and a model of
communication as a socially emergent process. The early chapters
are a foundation for disputing current thinking across a range of
topics such as communication and self, stories and storytelling,
communication and trust, and conflict. The author concludes by
sketching theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical
challenges. The volume is as dynamic and intricate as the
complexity of human communication.
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