Today, digital communication technologies are increasingly embraced by industries, governments and everyday users. As both people and public ser-vices are imagined as digital or networked ‘by default’ (Fotopoulou 2016; Mejias 2013; GOV.UK 2013, 2017), engagement – whether civic, consumer-ist or otherwise – is now predominantly understood as digital.…
This book is intended as a textbook for a one-semester course in general systems theory. It has been written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. A brief description of the organization of the book is given here, as well as some suggestions for its use and acknowledgements to those people and instituions who have helped to bring it to fruition.