Communication overload in interaction systems
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...
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Stockholm University Press
2009-07-01
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| Series: | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research |
| Online Access: | https://www.sjdr.se/articles/153 |
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| author | Dimitris Michailakis |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94d769ea76974e1187b116d0491d98d42023-09-03T00:30:10ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Disability Research1501-74191745-30112009-07-0161375410.1080/1501741040951263884Communication overload in interaction systemsDimitris Michailakis0Sociology at Gävle UniversityThe 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.https://www.sjdr.se/articles/153 |
| spellingShingle | Dimitris Michailakis Communication overload in interaction systems Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research |
| title | Communication overload in interaction systems |
| title_full | Communication overload in interaction systems |
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| url | https://www.sjdr.se/articles/153 |
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