Virtual communities in cyberspace

Kybernetes

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 60-66

  Geyer, Felix ^a  

^a SISWO Netherlands Universities' I   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0030560287     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684929610118345     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. The author's previous (co)publications in Kybernetes on applications of cybernetics/GST to the social sciences, especially to alienation theory are included in [2-8].
2. Geyer, F., "Political alienation and environmental complexity reduction", Kybernetes, Vol. 19 No. 2, 1990, pp. 11-31.
3. Geyer, F., "Modern forms of alienation in high-complexity environments: a systems approach", Kybernetes, Vol. 20 No. 2, 1991, pp. 10-28.
4. Geyer, F. and van der Zouwen, J., "Cybernetics and social science: theories and research in sociocybernetics", Kybernetes, Vol. 20 No. 6, 1991, pp. 81-92.
5. Geyer, F., "Alienation in community and society: effects of increasing environmental complexity", Kybernetes, Vol. 21 No. 2, 1992, pp. 33-49.
6. Geyer, F., "Alienation, participation, and increasing societal complexity", Kybernetes, Vol. 23 No. 2, 1994, pp. 10-34.
7. Geyer, F. and van der Zouwen, J., "Norbert Wiener and the social sciences", Kybernetes, Vol. 23 Nos. 6/7, 1994, pp. 46-61.
8. Geyer, F., "The challenge of sociocybernetics", Kybernetes, Vol. 24 No. 4, 1995, pp. 6-32.
9. Leydesdorff, L., "'Structure'/'action' contingencies and the model of parallel distributed processing", Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Vol. 23 No. 1, 1993, pp. 47-77.
10. Leydesdorff, L., "The evolution of communication systems", International Journal for Systems Research and Science, Vol. 6, 1994, pp. 219-30.
11. Hirsig, R., Rauber, S., Marchand, C. and Mattle, U., "Interactive computer games: an instrument in experimental psychological research", pp. 141-51 in Geyer, R.F. and van der Zouwen, J. (Eds), Self-referencing in Social Systems, Intersystems Publications, Salinas, CA, 1990, p. 201. This experiment is described in more detail in Geyer[5].
12. Holland, J.H., Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1975.
13. Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E. and Thagard, P.R., Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986,
14. Waldrop, M.M., Complexity - The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Simon & Schuster (Touchstone), New York, NY, 1992, pp. 145-7.
15. A Newsletter of this group, as well as further information on the sessions of the Sociocybernetics Section at the 10th International Congress of Systems and Cybernetics -26-31 August 1996 in Bucharest, Romania - is available from the author on request, either by e-mail ("geyer@SISWO.UVA.NL"), or mail (Felix Geyer, SISWO, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Fax: +31 20 622 9430.
16. The publishers are now pioneering new systems involving electronic publishing and comprehensive use of the Internet. Kybernetes has its own Internet Conferencing on: http://www.mcb.co.uk
17. Wiener, N., The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1950/1954; second edition Da Capo, New York, NY, 1988, p. 16 and pp. 26-7.