Communication overload in interaction systems

Dimitris Michailakis

doi:10.1080/15017410409512638

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Communication overload in interaction systems

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Dimitris Michailakis

Sociology at Gävle University

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The article aims at exploring the relevance of Luhmann's sociological systems theory to understand disability as communication about impairments. The questions to be considered in the following are: What happens to interaction systems when confronted with individuals with psychical or physical impairments (deviating bodies, perception difficulties, difficulties to process information)? What are the essential characteristics of interaction where disabled people participate? Trying to answer these questions, a broader question is raised: In which ways does communication in interaction systems become strained or overloaded? I argue that from the viewpoint of systems theory, disability as a social phenomenon, as part of social systems ‐ historically evolved and intelligible only in a systems/environment relationship ‐ must be linked to communication. Individuals’ impairments strain interaction with respect to time, objectively and socially because interaction systems are a combination of perception and communication.

How to Cite: Michailakis, D., 2009. Communication overload in interaction systems. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 6(1), pp.37–54. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410409512638

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Hendry , John and Seidl , David . (2003). . . The Structure and Significance of Strategic Episodes: Social Systems Theory and the Routine Practices of Strategic Change. . Journal of Management Studies , 401 January 2003 2003.
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Thyssen , Ole . (2003). . . “Luhmann and Management: A Critique of the Management Theory Organisations und Entscheidung. ”. In Autopoietic Organization Theory. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Perspective, Edited by: Bakken , Tore and Hernes , Tor . Abstract förlag AS.
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[CIT0001] Andersen , Niels Åkerström . (2003). . . “Polyphonic organisations. ”. In Autopoietic Organization Theory. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Perspective, Edited by: Bakken , Tore and Hernes , Tor . Abstract förlag AS.

[CIT0002] Baker , Bernadette . (1999). . . Disabling Methodologies. . Pedagogy, Culture & Society. , 7((1))

[CIT0003] Bakken , Tore and Hernes , Tor . (2003). , eds. . Autopoietic Organisation Theory. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Perspective. , Copenhagen Business School Press. .

[CIT0004] Beyes , Timon . (2003). . An Opening of Management Theory: Some Consequences of Niklas Luhmann's Notion of Contingency for Management Thinking. . Paper presented at the Opening of Systems Theory Conference. . May23–252003, , [city: Copenhagen].

[CIT0005] Hendry , John and Seidl , David . (2003). . . The Structure and Significance of Strategic Episodes: Social Systems Theory and the Routine Practices of Strategic Change. . Journal of Management Studies , 401 January 2003 2003.

[CIT0006] Holmström , Susanne . (1996). . . An Inter‐systemic and a Social Systemic Public relations Paradigm. Public Relations Interpreted from Systems Theory (Niklas Luhmann) in Opposition to the Critical Tradition (Jürgen Habermas). , Denmark: : University of Roskilde. . Public Relations Dissertation..

[CIT0007] . International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). , WHO. .

[CIT0008] Jönhill , Jan Inge . (1997). . . Samhället som system och dess ekologiska omvdrld. En studie i Niklas Luhmanns Sociologiska systemteori. [Society as System and its Ecological Environment. A Study in the Sociological Systems Theory of Niklas Luhmann]. , Lund Dissertations in Sociology 17Sociologiska Institutionen, Lunds universitet. .

[CIT0009] Knodt , M. Eva . (1995). . . “Foreward. ”. In Social Systems. , Edited by: Luhmann , Niklas . [city: Stanford]: : Stanford University Press. . 1995..

[CIT0010] Luhmann , Niklas . (1990). . . Essays on Self‐reference. , Columbia University Press. .

[CIT0011] Luhmann , Niklas . (1995). . . Social Systems. , [city: Stanford]: : Stanford University Press. .

[CIT0012] Luhmann , Niklas . (1997). . . Globalization of world Society: How to Conceive of Modern Society?. . International Review of Sociology. , 7((1))March 1997

[CIT0013] Luhmann , Niklas . (2000). . . The Reality of the Mass Media. , Polity Press. .

[CIT0014] Luhmann , Niklas . (2003). . . Kärlek som passion ‐om kodifleringen av intimitet. [Love as Passion ‐ On the Codification of Intimacy]. , Liber AB. .

[CIT0015] Maturana , Humberto . (2002). . . “The Nature of Time. ”. http: //www.teco.cl/bio1ogy/nature.htm.

[CIT0016] Michailakis , Dimitris . (2004). . . “Systemteoretisk Handikappforskning ‐ En mångfald av perspektiv. [Systems Theoretical Disability Research ‐ A Multitude of Perspectives]. ”. In Handikappforskng. , Edited by: Söder , Marten . Studentlitteratur. . (Forthcoming).

[CIT0017] Rasch , William . (2000). . . Niklas Luhmann's Modernity. The Paradoxes of Differentiation. , Stanford University Press. .

[CIT0018] Rasch , William . (2002). . . Introduction Niklas Luhmann Theories of Distinction. Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity. , Stanford University Press. .

[CIT0019] Reich , Wendelin . (2003). . . Dialogue and Shared Knowledge. How Verbal Interaction Renders Mental States Socially Obsemable. , Sweden: : Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. .

[CIT0020] Seidl , David . (2003). . . “Organisation Identity Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems. ”. In Autopoietic Organisation Theory. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Perspective. , Edited by: Bakken , Tore and Hernes , Tor . Copenhagen Business School Press. .

[CIT0021] Stewart , John . (1996). . . Cognition = Life: Implications for Higher‐level Cognition. . Behavioral Processes , 35: : 311.–. (1996).

[CIT0022] Thyssen , Ole . (2003). . . “Luhmann and Management: A Critique of the Management Theory Organisations und Entscheidung. ”. In Autopoietic Organization Theory. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Perspective, Edited by: Bakken , Tore and Hernes , Tor . Abstract förlag AS.

[CIT0023] Tomm , Karl . (1989). . . Systemisk Intervjumetodik. En utveckling av det terapeutiska samtalet. [Systemic Interview Methods. A Development of the Therapeutic Discussion], [city: Mareld]:

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Original Articles

Communication overload in interaction systems

Author:

Dimitris Michailakis

Sociology at Gävle University

About Dimitris

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