Readings from Week 3

Wiener, N., 1954. Cybernetics in History. In Theorizing Communication: Readings Across Traditions. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. 
1.) The author implies that communication must be a message with a shared meaning, so then what is communication between people when the message is not completely interpreted?

2.) When communicating from "machine to machine" should we be concerned that we are letting machines do far too much of our thinking, learning, and communicating?

3.) What does this statement "In control  and  communication we  are  always fighting nature's tendency  to  degrade the  organized  and to  destroy  the  meaningful;  the  tendency,  as Gibbs has shown us, for entropy to increase." imply? That humans are not naturally meant to communnicate effectively?

Watzlawick, P., Beavin, J.H. & Jackson, D.D., 1967. Some Tentative Axioms of Communication. In Theorizing Communication: Readings Across Traditions. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. 
1.) What type of communication is most effective?

2.) The author said that even not communicating (denial, silence, withdrawal....) is a form of communication and so it is impossible for one not to communicate. I think this is an interesting point but are there any examples that prove otherwise?

3.) I feel like the root of many communication problems are the "I nag because you withdraw" and "I withdraw because you nag" interaction. These are both intrinsic and unchanging opinions, so how can his kind of negative interaction be avoided?