Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Social noise; 2. Opening and closing in open societies; 3. The feast of the media; 4. When information turns to noise; 5. Entropic communication; 6. Good redundancy: identity as playback; 7. Theory of opening and closing; 8. Movements and possibilities; Notes; References; Index.

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In this original application of information theory to social analysis, Orrin Klapp examines how and why societies are producing more stress than they ever can handle.