The Reality of the Mass Media » (1st Edition)

Niklas Luhmann was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld.

In The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems—applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political system, art, religion, the sciences, and law—to an examination of the role of mass media in the construction of social reality.

1. Differentiation as a Doubling of Reality.

2. Self-reference and other-reference.

3. Coding.

4. System-specific Universalism.

5. News and In-Depth Reporting.

6. Ricúpero.

7. Advertising.

8. Entertainment.

9. Unity and Structural Couplings.

10. Individuals.

11. The Construction of Reality.

12. The Reality of Construction.

13. The Function of the Mass Media.

14. The Public.

15. Schema Formation.

16. Second-order Cybernetics as Paradox.

Notes.

Index.