1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963300303321

Autore

Leaf Murray J

Titolo

Human organizations and social theory : pragmatism, pluralism, and adaptation / / Murray J. Leaf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009

ISBN

9786613895387

9781283582933

1283582937

9780252091711

025209171X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

302.3/5

Soggetti

Social structure

Organization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Empirical starting points -- Scepticism, pragmatism, and Kant -- New tools -- Social idea systems -- Technical information systems -- Organizations -- Groups and institutions -- Adaptation -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1930s, George Herbert Mead and other leading social scientists established the modern empirical analysis of social interaction and communication, enabling theories of cognitive development, language acquisition, interaction, government, law and legal processes, and the social construction of the self. However, they could not provide a comparably empirical analysis of human organization. The theory in this book fills in the missing analysis of organizations and specifies more precisely the pragmatic analysis of communication with an adaptation of information theory to ordinary unmediated communications. The study also provides the theoretical basis for understanding the success of pragmatically grounded public policies, from the New Deal through the postwar reconstruction of Europe and Japan to the ongoing development of the European Union, in contrast to the persistent failure of positivistic and Marxist policies and programs.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954885503321

Autore

Punday Daniel

Titolo

Writing at the limit : the novel in the new media ecology / / Daniel Punday

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613664648

9780803240810

0803240813

9781280687709

1280687703

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Frontiers of narrative

Classificazione

LIT004020

Disciplina

813/.609

Soggetti

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Narration (Rhetoric)

Mass media and literature - United States - History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.249-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Rhetorical Construction of Media Ecologies; 1. Multimedia Moments Old and New; 2. Story, Discourse, and Circulation; 3. Defining the Vocation of the Novel through Narrative Elements; 4. Writing Beyond the Media Limit?; 5. Negotiating Public and Private Spaces; Coda: Connection through Limits and the Myth of Media Fullness; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"An examination of the relationship between contemporary fiction and new media from a narratological perspective"--