‘Paris with snakes’? The future of communication is/as ‘Cultural Science’

What if communication has been pursuing the wrong kind of science? This article argues that the physics-based or ‘transmission’ model derived from Claude Shannon and criticised by James Carey does not explain how communication works. We argue instead for a model derived from the evolutionary and com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hartley, John, Potts, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22996