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Niklas Luhmann’s concept of social communication and documentary information theory: Cross points

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Niklas Luhman’s concept of social communication is considered. The relationship between communication concepts and information theory is shown. The heuristic potential of Luhmann’s theory with respect to the document and information disciplines is analyzed.

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  1. State Public Scientific and Technical Library, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630200, Russia

    E. A. Pleshkevich

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Original Russian Text © E.A. Pleshkevich, 2016, published in Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 2: Informatsionnye Protsessy i Sistemy, 2016, No. 9, pp. 1–6.

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Pleshkevich, E.A. Niklas Luhmann’s concept of social communication and documentary information theory: Cross points. Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 51, 1–5 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105517010046

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