Steven, Jerry, and All --
Re: "Communicational Communities"
The etymology of "community" tells us that "munus" means duty, gift, or service,
so the original idea seems rooted in concepts of common duty and shared service.
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/gladiatr/origins.htm
Our notion of communication appears to be a derivative of that, referring
to the sort of signaling we do in order to coordinate collaborative work.
So it doesn't seem like a complete tautology to reconnect those two ideas.
Jon
Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
I agree with Jerry's concern here and have a similar internal debate going on. Mine centers on the very notion of
"communication" which appears to me to be a way of speaking about the pair: expression and apprehension. So that when
speaking of "communication" in communities (or any other sense) one may be speaking about these pairs as they effect
individuals in the information theoretic sense. "Communities" infers "communication" between a group of
individuals and so I do see the notion of "Communicational Communities" as redundant.
I can conceive of "distributive" as a property of expression within a community and
"collective" as the sum of expression by a community but otherwise I cannot associate these notions
with "communication."
With respect,
Steven
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