Volume 16 · Number 3 ·
Pages 366–368
How Can Algorithms Participate in Communication?
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Abstract
Open peer commentary on the article “Systems Theory and Algorithmic Futures: Interview with Elena Esposito” by Elena Esposito, Katrin Sold & Bénédicte Zimmermann. Abstract: Esposito’s theoretical approach indicates the fertility, first, of transplanting social systems theory into other fields, and next, of bringing classical cybernetic topics such as computation by algorithms back into Luhmann’s multi-modal constructivist framework of differentiated system operations.
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Clarke B. (2021) How can algorithms participate in communication? Constructivist Foundations 16(3): 366–368. https://constructivist.info/16/3/366
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