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Theory of society

Knoblauch Hubert
- pp 134-206
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‘Fake news’ is the invention of a liar: How false information circulates within the hybrid news system:

TL;DR: The authors unpack the concept of fake news, defining diverse types and forms of misleading news, and propose a framework to detect fake news and to classify them according to different types of news.
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The Communicative Construction of Reality

TL;DR: The Communicative Construction of Reality as discussed by the authors is a sociological study of the role of communication in an age in which digitization and mediatization have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society.
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Resurrecting organization without renouncing society: A response to Ahrne, Brunsson and Seidl

TL;DR: It is believed that Ahrne, Brunsson, and Seidl's suggestion jeopardizes the concept of organization by blurring its specific meaning and is proposed to take this exploration a step further and the potential of systems theory more seriously.
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From Nonprofit Diversity to Organizational Multifunctionality: A Systems–Theoretical Proposal

TL;DR: The remarkable feature of the nonprofit sector is its astonishing diversity as discussed by the authors, and this feature gets short shrift in the traditional market or governmental failure theories of the non-profit sector.
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Digital technology, digital culture and the metric/nonmetric distinction

TL;DR: Digital culture is analysed as a nonmetric form specifically and criticized for leaving aside other social forms, most notably metric forms such as the flows of information connected with the operations of algorithms for instance.
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The Communicative Construction of Reality

TL;DR: The Communicative Construction of Reality as discussed by the authors is a sociological study of the role of communication in an age in which digitization and mediatization have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society.
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Resurrecting organization without renouncing society: A response to Ahrne, Brunsson and Seidl

TL;DR: It is believed that Ahrne, Brunsson, and Seidl's suggestion jeopardizes the concept of organization by blurring its specific meaning and is proposed to take this exploration a step further and the potential of systems theory more seriously.
Journal ArticleDOI

From Nonprofit Diversity to Organizational Multifunctionality: A Systems–Theoretical Proposal

TL;DR: The remarkable feature of the nonprofit sector is its astonishing diversity as discussed by the authors, and this feature gets short shrift in the traditional market or governmental failure theories of the non-profit sector.
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Digital technology, digital culture and the metric/nonmetric distinction

TL;DR: Digital culture is analysed as a nonmetric form specifically and criticized for leaving aside other social forms, most notably metric forms such as the flows of information connected with the operations of algorithms for instance.