The Structure of Democratic Communications

Abstract

Democratic Communications offer the practical, everyday solution to the problem of alienation. Alienation is located in those social relations which systematically distort communication rather than in purely religious or intellectual life. Five such distorting relationships are mentioned. The solution to alienation set forth here posits a system of communication which is a) information rich, b) interaction rich,and c) oriented to the constitution, of a public sphere. Several theoretical domains are used to ground this presentation among which are the Marxian theory of alienation, information theory, cybernetics theory, systems theory and communications theory. The more disorganized a system is, the, more important it is that the communications media be organized democratically in order to maximize the search for quality variety.