Communication Ecology has roots in many disciplines and conversations. There is no claim that it is unique. Merely that it may be a useful approach to managing communication systems.
Actor Network Network Theory
Soft System Methodology
Pierre Bourdieu
An article by Lewis Freidland, Toward a Theory of the Communicatively Integrated Community Communication Research, Vol. 28, No. 4, 358-391 (2001) link to the abstract
Communication Ecology draws heavily from the insights from the following thinkers.
Jane Jacobs in Cities and the Wealth of Nations and other writings -
Clay Cristansen - Innovators Dilemma and other stuff
John Seely Brown- in everything he writes
Malcom Gladwell - Tipping Point
Robert Reich- The Work of Nations
37signals.com - Anything they've made or written
Peter Senge -and all the folks around Fifth Discipline and Learning Organizations
Boyce Rensberger - Biologist who I think, (but I need advice from a trained biologist)
Heiner Gannsmann - Geldt und Arbeit (available in German as of this date)
Richard Lanham - The Economy of Attention
Steven Johnson - Emergence and almost anything else he has written
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