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In the reality of mass media, Lohan expands his theory of social systems - applied in his earlier works on the economy, political system, art, religion, science and law -…

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In the reality of mass media, Lohan expands his theory of social systems - applied in his earlier works on the economy, political system, art, religion, science and law - to examine the role of the media in building a social reality. Lohan argues that the media system is a set of self-recycled communication programs, whose functions do not specify external values ​​of truth, objectivity or knowledge, nor private social interests or policy directives. Instead, it claims that the media system is organized by informal information / instructions, which enables the system to select its own information (news) from its own environment and to communicate this information according to its own reflectivity standards.

Despite his own subjective quality, Lohan describes the media as one of the main cognitive systems of modern society, through a society that constructs illusion by its own reality. He argues that the media allow communities to process information without destabilizing social roles or overloading social actors. It provides a broad repository of options for future action coordination and provides parameters for the stability of the political reproduction of society, as it produces a continuous self-description of the world that modern society can direct itself to.

In his discussion of the media, Lohan explains the theory of communication, in which communication is not seen as a special act of consciousness, nor an intermediary of integrative social norms, but merely the technical symbols through which formal processes are organized and perpetuated.



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