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Mass Media and News as Sociological Objects of Study of Sociology in the Perspective of Niklas Luhmann’s Operational Constructivism

Authors

  • Gastón Becerra Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Vanessa Arreyes Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

This article presents a critical and synthetic view of the theory of the so-called "Mass Media" social systems, proposed by Niklas Luhmann.  Therefore we aim to locate the mass media theory within the general theory of social sociopoietic systems and to describe its epistemic constructivist foundations -in the "operational constructivist" variant-. Towards the end of this article we focus on how Luhmann's theory allows a mass media description within society,  which rescues a purely sociological vision.

Keywords:

Mass Media, Operational Constructivism, Sociopoietic Systems, News, Social Systems Theory