Reframing Online Games: Synthetic Worlds as Media for Organizational Communication

Schultze, U. & Rennecker, J. (2007) "Reframing Online Games: Synthetic Worlds as Media for Organizational Communication," in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol 236, Virtuality and Virtualization, K. Crowston, S. Sieber & E. Wynne (Eds), Springer: Boston, pp. 335-351.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Actantial Model, by Louis Hébert. Professor, Université du Québec à Rimouski

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by C.E. Shannon

A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by C.E. Shannon. Reprinted with corrections from The Bell System Technical Journal,
Vol. 27, pp. 379–423, 623–656, July, October, 1948.

Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001)By Solomon W. Golomb, Elwyn Berlekamp, Thomas M. Cover,Robert G. Gallager, James L. Massey, and Andrew J. Viterbi

The Shannon-Weaver model

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972)

Passages from General System Theory (1968)


General System Theory, therefore, is a general science of 'wholeness'.

(1) There is a general tendency towards integration in the various sciences, natural and social.

(2) Such integration seems to be centred in a general theory of systems.

(3) Such theory may be an important means of aiming at exact theory in the nonphysical fields of science.

(4) Developing unifying principles running 'vertically' through the universe of the individual sciences, this theory brings us nearer to the goal of the unity of science.

(5) This can lead to a much-needed integration in scientific education.