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Media: A. The media industry is made up of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and online media. See also Television, Newspaper, Cinema, Social Media, Internet. - B. In information theory, the medium is a channel through which information is transmitted. The medium can be a radio wave, a cable, or a piece of paper. See also Information theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Talcott Parsons on Media - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas IV 397 Medium/Parsons/Habermas: the medium (here money as a non-linguistic communication medium in interactions) is both measure and store of value. While a linguistic utterance receives a measurable information value only in relation to the context-dependent information status of the sender ((s) sic, actually of the receiver), media must embody measurable value sets to which, irrespective of particular contexts, all participants can refer to as an objective quantity. >Money/Parsons. While the semantic content of linguistic expressions cannot be appropriated exclusively by individual actors, control media must embody values that circulate. >Control media, >Communication media._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
ParCh I Ch. Parsons Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays Cambridge 2014 ParTa I T. Parsons The Structure of Social Action, Vol. 1 1967 ParTe I Ter. Parsons Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics 2000 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |