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cybernetics  

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  • Cybernetics has figured in global studies as a code word for global communications and media studies. Modern cybernetics began with Norbert Wiener, who defined the field with his 1948 book, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Cybernetics]

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