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Newspapers and The Public

July 21, 2017 Carlton Clark

The first English daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, began publication is 1702. This might be called the beginning of the mass media, at least in

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Journalism and Public Opinion

October 9, 2016 Carlton Clark

Journalism, as an autopoietic system, established its autonomy in the eighteenth century by separating itself from the political system. In the early years of newspapers, printers simply

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Call X a social system

October 6, 2016 Carlton Clark

If we follow the rules of classical logic, we can make a declarative statement that can proved true or false. The statement must be falsifiable.

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George Spencer-Brown and Journalism

October 5, 2016 Carlton Clark

The following are two disconnected sections from a paper I’ve been trying to write for a long time now. The draft still needs work, but I

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Journalism in the Next Society

September 22, 2016 Carlton Clark

More tentative thoughts on journalism as a function system. In the Next Society (see Dirk Baecker) information is abundant and is therefore shared. Those who have

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