The Reality of the Mass Media
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...It is rather an internal consistency check with one’s own construction of reality (Luhmann, 2000)....
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...Indeed, its contemporary everyday use as a signifier of constant change is a relatively recent development (Luhmann, 2000)....
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...In neo-functionalist theories, media systems, differentiating themselves from other spheres of actions, have been constituted and reproduced through their own operations, or more precisely, “observing operations” (Luhmann, 2000; Hallin & Mancini, 2004)....
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...In other words, a normative search for structural pluralism would direct the enquirer to such conditions and arrangements that allow media to “be autonomous in the regulation of their own selectivity” (Luhmann, 2000, p. 24)....
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...A code that enables such systems to distinguish from the environment and organise their own “reduction of complexity” is the distinction of information and non-information (Luhmann, 2000, p. 17)....
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