On Communicating: Otherness, Meaning, and Information Book

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Fernando Bermejo 1

Part 1 Communicating

Introduction 9

1 An Alternative Paradigm 11

2 Epistemological Grounding 37

3 Major Communication Metaphors 48

4 A Recursive Framework for Communication Theories 72

5 Conversation or Intellectual Imperialism 86

Part 2 Otherness

Introduction 99

6 The Otherness that Theory Creates 101

7 A Cybernetics of I-Other Relations 112

8 Pathology, Power, and Emancipation 131

9 Writing Ecologically 156

Part 3 Meaning

Introduction 171

10 A Constructivist Critique of Semiotics 173

11 The Dialogical Meaning of Cultural Artifacts 191

12 The Methodo-logic of Content Analysis 205

13 Discourse as Systematically Constrained Conversation 217

Part 4 Information

Introduction 235

14 An Introduction to Information Theory 237

15 Research In-Formation 265

16 Paradox and Information 278

17 Cyberspace and Its Artifacts 299

18 Social Memory 322

References 343

Permissions 358

Index 360