The biological metaphor of a second-order observer and the sociological discourse

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 531-546

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Expectancy theory; Social systems; Sociocybernetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646582651     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610653791     Document Type: Review

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