Welcome to the second issue of tripleC (Cognition – Communication – Co-operation). tripleC is a transdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. Papers dealing with topics in the fields of information and knowledge research, information society, communication studies, cultural studies, media studies, cybernetics and systems thinking, semiotics, philosophy of science, cognitive science, inter- and transdisciplinary studies, philosophy and sociology of knowledge, philosophy and sociology of technology, are welcome and can be submitted per e-mail to Christian Fuchs (christian@igw.tuwien.ac.at).
Marcos Palacios (“Internet as System and Environment: Preliminary Ideas from an Ongoing Research“) discusses the applicability of the concepts system and environment to the Internet. He suggests a dynamic analysis of Cyberspace and that depending on the point of observation Internet can either be seen as system or environment.
Christian Fuchs (“Globalization and Self-Organization in the Knowledge-Based Society “) analyzes the relationship of globalization and self-organization both on a more general and a more concrete level. On the latter level he focuses on the antagonisms of the knowledge-based society. Fuchs suggests that a proper foundation for theorizing globalization is a theory of social self-organization.
Christian Fuchs (Managing Editor tripleC)