Technological forms and ecological communication: a theoretical heuristic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Chikako Takeshita
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Communication

scholarly journals Soziales System statt Ökosystem: Für eine gesellschaftstheoretische Grundierung des Ecocriticism

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Soziales System ◽  
Ecological Communication

Keywords: ökologisch orientierte Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, gesellschaftstheoretische Grundierung, ökologische Kommunikation, diskurstheoretischer Ansatz, Niklas Luhmann, prekäre Erkenntnismöglichkeiten. Why has ecocriticism yet to gain recognition in German literature departments? One reason is that fundamental questions about literature as a form of ecological communication and its function in society have yet to be satisfactorily answered. Even significant recent developments in ecocritical theory like Zapf’s “Cultural Ecology” are problematic, inasmuch as they are based on an over-simplified conception of ecology and the harmony of ecosystems. A more robust theoretical grounding for ecocriticism can be found in social theory. Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory provides the theoretical framework for an adequate understanding of ecological crisis and of the role of literature and literary criticism in addressing it. Palabras clave: literatura ecológica y ciencias culturales, fundamentos de la teoría social, comunicación ecológica, principios de la teoría discursiva, Niklas Luhmann, precario descubrimiento de posibilidades ¿Por qué la ecocrítica todavía tiene que obtener reconocimiento en los departamentos de literatura Germánica? Una razón es que las preguntas fundamentales sobre la literatura como forma de comunicación ecológica y su función en la sociedad aún no han obtenido una respuesta satisfactoria. Incluso los desarrollos recientes en teoría ecocrítica como la “Ecología Cultural” de Zapf son problemáticos  en tanto que se basan en un concepto de ecología y en una armonía de los ecosistemas excesivamente simplificado. Puede encontrarse una base teórica más consistente para la ecocrítica en la teoría social. La teoría de sistemas de Niklas Luhmann proporciona el marco teórico para una interpretación adecuada de la crisis ecológica y del papel de la literatura y de la crítica literaria en su tratamiento de ésta

Demoralizing: integrating J.D. Peters’ communication “chasm” with Niklas Luhmann’s (1989) ecological communication to analyze climate change mitigation inaction

Kybernetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Binary Codes ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation Policy ◽  
Ecological Communication ◽  
Change Mitigation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the US society’s insignificant mitigation of climate change using Niklas Luhmann’s (1989) autopoietic social systems theory in ecological communication. Specifically, the author’s analysis falls within the context of Luhmann re-moralized while focusing on particular function systems’ binary codes and their repellence of substantive US climate change mitigation policy across systems. Design/methodology/approach The author achieves this purpose by resituating Luhmann’s conception of evolution to forgo systems teleology and better contextualize the spatial-temporal scale of climate change; reinforcing complexity reduction and differentiation by integrating communication and media scholar John D. Peters’s (1999) “communication chasm” concept as one mechanism through which codes sustain over time; and applying these integrated concepts to prominent the US climate change mitigation attempts. Findings The author concludes that climate change mitigation efforts are the amalgamation of the systems’ moral communications. Mitigation efforts have relegated themselves to subsystems of the ten major systems given the polarizing nature of their predominant care/harm moral binary. Communication chasms persist because these moral communications cannot both adhere to the systems’ binary codes and communicate the climate crisis’s urgency. The more time that passes, the more codes force mitigation organizations, activist efforts and their moral communications to adapt and sacrifice their actions to align with the encircling systems’ code. Social implications In addition to the conceptual contribution, the social implication is that by identifying how and why climate change mitigation efforts are subsumed by the larger systems and their codes, climate change activists and practitioners can better tool their tactics to change the codes at the heart of the systems if serious and substantive climate change mitigation is to prevail. Originality/value To the author’s knowledge, there has not been an integration of a historical communication concept into, and sociological application of, ecological communication in the context of climate change mitigation.

Ecological communication: Coping with the unknown

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Luhmann
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Communication

The Category of Alterity as a Factor of the Ecological / Non-ecological Mode of Communication (Based on Mass Media Texts)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е. Кислякова ◽  
E. Kislyakova ◽  
В. Шаховский ◽  
V. Shahovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Ecological Communication

The article treats the issue of ecological / non-ecological communication within the discourse of mass media with regard to fluctuating interrelation of the Self and the Other. The system of the interrelation of the Self and the Other represents the communicative category of alterity. It is proved that to foster the ecological mode of the verbal interaction it is essential to form an adequate image of the Other: as a constituent of any discourse it has to be adequate to the communicative situation.

Political and ecological communication

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Communication

scholarly journals The Great Discrepancy: Political Action, Sustainable Development and Ecological Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Dieter Konold ◽  
Thomas Schwietring
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Global Environmental Policy ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
The One ◽  
Ecological Communication ◽  
High Degree

The term ‘sustainable development’ was coined to denote a political goal some 40 years ago; debates about sustainability date back considerably further. These debates reflect the growing awareness of the destructive effects of human activities on the natural foundations of life. Numerous initiatives have been launched to trigger a turnaround, with the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs being the latest attempt. However, substantial progress has been rather limited thus far. This discrepancy is the subject of the article. Starting from a historical overview of sustainability politics, the argument develops in three steps. First, it is shown that conventional conceptions to promote environmental change fall short in depicting the broader societal context. To provide a comprehensive picture of the challenges related to transformation processes, a theory of the functional differentiation of societies is presented in a second step. A systems theory perspective offers a convincing theoretical explication of the problem. Third, this approach is scrutinized with regard to the political system and the politics of sustainability. The key finding is that the specific functional logics of the different social subsystems must be taken into account when analysing sustainable development and the discrepancy between the aims and ambitions of (global) environmental policy and the visible consequences. On the one hand, the functional differentiation of modern society guarantees its high degree of effectiveness and flexibility. On the other hand, implementing fundamental change, such as a transition towards sustainability, is not simply a question of strategy or of political willingness and steering. Rather, there is a need for more elaborate explanatory instruments. As a result, we argue for a linking of theories of sustainable development and advanced social theory.

scholarly journals DIALOGUE DISCOURSE IN THE CONTEXT OF ECOLINGUISTIC ISSUES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Nataliia Shulzhuk
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Conflict Communication ◽  
Ecological Communication ◽  
Speech Situation

Basing on cognitive and discourse linguistic paradigm the author characterizes dialogue communication in the context of ecolinguistic issues. In leveled structure of dialogue discourse following O. Selivanova it has been pointed out such constituents as formal and content, interactive, onthological, social and cultural ones that cause specific features of its content verbalization. Updating interdisciplinary research gives a possibility to interpret language and speech (dialogical in particular) as an ecolinguistic phenomenon and the instrument of harmonious living activity formation. This presents the dialogue issue as cognitive and communicative phenomenon behind the limits of classical linguistics and raises the issue of dialogue communication environmental friendliness / environmental unfriendliness. The author emphasizes on the environmental unfriendliness in presentable packaging that has been implemented in such forms as conflict communication, emotional ignoring, emotional taboo, and outlines specific features of cooperation and language domination strategies verbalization. The author stresses that speech’s influence (as the aim of dialogue communication) may be either positive or negative. Last one is the revelation of speech violence which may be presented implicitly (speech manipulation) or explicitly (speech aggression). Both speech violence implementations influence on people’s dialogue interaction in a negative way as they are directed on the destruction of addressee’s language personality. The author highlights that to qualify any utterance according to its violence revelation is possible only considering the context of speech situation namely analysis of concrete communication conditions. In the context of researched issue the author argues the need of its linguistic and didactic interpretation that is the need to teach ecological communication basing on speech tolerance that promotes the formation of harmonious living activity.

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