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This paper discusses cybernetic communication theory or the communication systems theory. The paper explains that while communication systems theory still relies to one degree or another on the foundational theory of semiotics as found in the work of Barthes and Saussure, it takes a broader view of communication. The paper discusses how systems theory in communication study recognizes that communication is not so much reliant on its component parts because these component parts typically lack the meaning of what is being communicated. The paper shows how systems theory understands that meaning and what is being conveyed, as well as how it is being conveyed from point to point, is more important in terms of actual communication processes. The paper devotes time to the idea that communication does not take place in the sterile environment of the semiotician's academic environment but rather in the highly integrated context of the community.

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"This document discusses Cybernetic Communication theory or the communication systems theory. While communication systems theory still relies to one degree or another on the foundational theory of semiotics as found in the work of Barthes and Saussure, it takes a broader view of communication. The distinction is that semiotics attempts to deconstruct language and communication to its component level and systems theory attempts to move language and communication upward into a greater system of information flow and movement. Systems theory in communication study recognizes that communication is not so much reliant on its component..."

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