Models of Communication

Mats Bergman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. His primary research areas include the philosophy and social theory of pragmatism, the thought of C. S. Peirce, the philosophy and theory of communication, and the ethics of media and communication. Bergman is the author of Peirce's Philosophy of Communication (2009).

Models of Communication offers a timely reassessment of the significance of modelling in media and communication studies. From a rich variety of different perspectives, the collected essays explore the past, present, and future uses of communication models, in ordinary discourses concerning communication as well as in academic research.

1. Introduction 2. Models of Communication In and As Metadiscourse 3. Epistemological Presuppositions in Communication Theory 4. Toward a Pragmatistic Perspective on Models of Communication 5. Turing Machines and Communication: Two Modelling Relations 6. A Convenient Way to Describe Communication...": Towards the Transmission Model as a Metamodel 7. Writing a History of Communication Models: Modes of Historical Narrative 8. The "Mediated Social Communication" Approach: An Early Discursive Mass Communication Model 9. Rearticulating Carey: Cultural Institutionalism as a Model to Theorise Journalism in Time 10. A Figurative Approach to Mediatization Studies 11. Being as Communication: An Exploratory Model 12. Regimes of Communication: Emergent Processes, Historical Approaches 13. A Metaphysical Model of Communication 14. Beyond Letters: Correspondence as a Negative Principle of Communication