Mats Bergman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. His primary research areas include the philosophy and social theory of pragmatism, the thought of C. S. Peirce, the philosophy and theory of communication, and the ethics of media and communication. Bergman is the author of Peirce’s Philosophy of Communication (2009). Kęstas Kirtiklis is an associate professor at the Faculty of Communication Vilnius University, Lithuania. His research interests are philosophy and theory of communication. He recently co-edited (with Renata Šukaitytė) of "Socialinės tikrovės mediacija. Kultūra, politika ir visuomenė" [Mediation of Social Reality. Culture, Poetics, Society] (Vilnius University Press, 2018). Johan Siebers is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Middlesex University London. He is also Director of the Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Johan is founding editor and principal editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.

Select Guide Rating

• 1. Introduction 2. Models of Communication In and As Metadiscourse 3. Epistemological Presuppositions in Communication Theory 4. Toward a Pragmatistic Perspective on Models of Communication 5. Turing Machines and Communication: Two Modelling Relations 6. A Convenient Way to Describe Communication…": Towards the Transmission Model as a Metamodel 7. Writing a History of Communication Models: Modes of Historical Narrative 8. The "Mediated Social Communication" Approach: An Early Discursive Mass Communication Model 9. Rearticulating Carey: Cultural Institutionalism as a Model to Theorise Journalism in Time 10. A Figurative Approach to Mediatization Studies 11. Being as Communication: An Exploratory Model 12. Regimes of Communication: Emergent Processes, Historical Approaches 13. A Metaphysical Model of Communication 14. Beyond Letters: Correspondence as a Negative Principle of Communication

Mats Bergman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. His primary research areas include the philosophy and social theory of pragmatism, the thought of C. S. Peirce, the philosophy and theory of communication, and the ethics of media and communication. Bergman is the author of Peirce’s Philosophy of Communication (2009). Kęstas Kirtiklis is an associate professor at the Faculty of Communication Vilnius University, Lithuania. His research interests are philosophy and theory of communication. He recently co-edited (with Renata Šukaitytė) of "Socialinės tikrovės mediacija. Kultūra, politika ir visuomenė" [Mediation of Social Reality. Culture, Poetics, Society] (Vilnius University Press, 2018). Johan Siebers is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Middlesex University London. He is also Director of the Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Johan is founding editor and principal editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.

Select Guide Rating

• 1. Introduction 2. Models of Communication In and As Metadiscourse 3. Epistemological Presuppositions in Communication Theory 4. Toward a Pragmatistic Perspective on Models of Communication 5. Turing Machines and Communication: Two Modelling Relations 6. A Convenient Way to Describe Communication…": Towards the Transmission Model as a Metamodel 7. Writing a History of Communication Models: Modes of Historical Narrative 8. The "Mediated Social Communication" Approach: An Early Discursive Mass Communication Model 9. Rearticulating Carey: Cultural Institutionalism as a Model to Theorise Journalism in Time 10. A Figurative Approach to Mediatization Studies 11. Being as Communication: An Exploratory Model 12. Regimes of Communication: Emergent Processes, Historical Approaches 13. A Metaphysical Model of Communication 14. Beyond Letters: Correspondence as a Negative Principle of Communication

Mats Bergman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. His primary research areas include the philosophy and social theory of pragmatism, the thought of C. S. Peirce, the philosophy and theory of communication, and the ethics of media and communication. Bergman is the author of Peirce’s Philosophy of Communication (2009). Kęstas Kirtiklis is an associate professor at the Faculty of Communication Vilnius University, Lithuania. His research interests are philosophy and theory of communication. He recently co-edited (with Renata Šukaitytė) of "Socialinės tikrovės mediacija. Kultūra, politika ir visuomenė" [Mediation of Social Reality. Culture, Poetics, Society] (Vilnius University Press, 2018). Johan Siebers is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Middlesex University London. He is also Director of the Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Johan is founding editor and principal editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.

Select Guide Rating

• 1. Introduction 2. Models of Communication In and As Metadiscourse 3. Epistemological Presuppositions in Communication Theory 4. Toward a Pragmatistic Perspective on Models of Communication 5. Turing Machines and Communication: Two Modelling Relations 6. A Convenient Way to Describe Communication…": Towards the Transmission Model as a Metamodel 7. Writing a History of Communication Models: Modes of Historical Narrative 8. The "Mediated Social Communication" Approach: An Early Discursive Mass Communication Model 9. Rearticulating Carey: Cultural Institutionalism as a Model to Theorise Journalism in Time 10. A Figurative Approach to Mediatization Studies 11. Being as Communication: An Exploratory Model 12. Regimes of Communication: Emergent Processes, Historical Approaches 13. A Metaphysical Model of Communication 14. Beyond Letters: Correspondence as a Negative Principle of Communication