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Wiio's laws are humoristically formulated observations about how humans communicate. Wiio's laws are usually summarized with "Human communications usually fail except by accident", which is the main observation made by Professor Osmo Antero Wiio in 1978.
Osmo A. Wiio (1961) Osmo Antero Wiio (4 February 1928 – 20 February 2013) was a Finnish academic, journalist, author and member of the Finnish Parliament. [1] He is best known for his somewhat facetious Wiio's laws around communication, succinctly summarized as "Communication usually fails, except by accident".
Wiio's laws: The fundamental Wiio's law states that "Communication usually fails, except by accident". Wike's law of low odd primes: "If the number of experimental treatments is a low odd prime number, then the experimental design is unbalanced and partially confounded." [18]
Wiio's laws; Workplace communication This page was last edited on 15 June 2024, at 19:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The law is, in a strict sense, only about correspondence; it does not state that communication structure is the cause of system structure, merely describes the connection. Different commentators have taken various positions on the direction of causality; that technical design causes the organization to restructure to fit, [ 10 ] that the ...
Communicology is the scholarly and academic study of how people create and use messages to affect the social environment. Communicology is an academic discipline that distinguishes itself from the broader field of human communication with its exclusive use of scientific methods to study communicative phenomena.
Harold Innis examined the rise and fall of ancient empires as a way of tracing the effects of communications media. He looked at media that led to the growth of an empire; those that sustained it during its periods of success, and then, the communications changes that hastened an empire's collapse.
Osmo Antero Wiio (1928–2013), professor, politician, author of Wiio's laws of communication; Arvid Wittenberg (1606–1657), Swedish count, field marshal and privy councillor. Margaretha Zetterberg (1733–1803), a Finnish textile and handcrafts worker.