Communication as a dynamical self-sustaining system: The importance of time-scales and nested context

Communication Theory

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 445-464

  Streeck, Jürgen ^a   Scott Jordan, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MODELING; SPATIAL COGNITION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 70350680148     PISSN: 10503293     EISSN: 14682885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2009.01351.x     Document Type: Article

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