Cybernetics examines how information about consequences returns to change system behavior. Negative feedback reduces deviation and positive feedback amplifies it; neither label means good or bad. Communication applications inspect sensing, delay, response, and outcomes while preserving human interpretation, contested goals, and power beyond the technical loop.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainOrganization & Structure
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.