On Communicating

<p>Klaus Krippendorff is an influential figure in communication studies widely known for his award-winning book <em>Content Analysis</em>. Over the years, Krippendorff has made important contributions to the ongoing debates on fundamental issues concerning communication theory, epistemology, methods of research, critical scholarship, second-order cybernetics, the social construction of reality through language, design, and meaning. <em>On Communicating</em> assembles Krippendorff’s most significant writings – many of which are virtually unavailable today, appearing in less accessible publications, conference proceedings, out-of-print book chapters, and articles in journals outside the communication field. In their totality, they provide a goldmine for communication students and scholars. Edited and with an introduction by Fernando Bermejo, this book provides readers with access to Krippendorff’s key works.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>Part 1: Communicating</p><p>Chapter 1. An Alternative Paradigm</p><p>Chapter 2. Epistemological Grounding</p><p>Chapter 3. Major Communication Metaphors</p><p>Chapter 4. A Recursive Framework for Communication Theories</p><p>Chapter 5. Conversation or Intellectual Imperialism</p><p>Part 2: Otherness</p><p>Chapter 6. The Otherness that Theory Creates</p><p>Chapter 7. A Cybernetics of I-Other Relations</p><p>Chapter 8. Pathology, Power and Emancipation</p><p>Chapter 9. Writing Ecologically</p><p>Part 3: Meaning</p><p>Chapter 10. A Constructivist Critique of Semiotics</p><p>Chapter 11. The Dialogical Meaning of Cultural Artifacts</p><p>Chapter 12. The Methodo-logic of Content Analysis</p><p>Chapter 13. Discourse as Systematically Constrained Conversation</p><p>Part 4: Information</p><p>Chapter 14. An Introduction to Information Theory</p><p>Chapter 15. Research In-Formation</p><p>Chapter 16. Paradox and Information</p><p>Chapter 17. Cyberspace and its Artifacts</p><p>Chapter 18. Social Memory</p><p>References</p>