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What is Social cybernetics

Chapter 24
Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
An approach to describe how people create, maintain and change social systems through language and ideas in an approach where knowledge is constructed to achieve human purposes.
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Communication and Relation Building in Social Systems
Thomas Hansson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-970-0.ch024
Abstract
Research into human behaviour have produced much innovative modelling, some respectable instrumentation, but little empirical theory-testing. This chapter follows suit, but rather than pursuing a traditional division between abstract conceptualisation and pragmatic procedures in the analysis of systemic human behaviour, focus is on social and psychological systems defined as information-processing entities in a context of verbal organisation, communication and control.
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