Foreword

The present issue concentrates on how the self-organizing structure of the electronic communication media, such as the Internet, influences how we communicate, perceive and understand texts. Peter Bøgh Andersen analyzes the basic communication structure of the Internet. He describes it as a 'technical autopoietic system', underlining that it is of cause made by humans and only makes sense through human users, but as a media it is more self-organized than any other media we know. Joy Murray writes about how the changing technology of communication provokes a new perspective on literacy learning in schools based on Maturana and Varela's work. Communication is seen as a braiding together of languaging and emotioning. Ermina Vaccari speaks about a specific methodology for modeling problems of organized complexity and its relevance for understanding the self-organizing character of cognition.