To broaden your understanding of the chapter, consider the following assignments related to the Internet.

1			The chapter touches briefly on the topic of how Organizational Information Theory might speak to the issues of organizational communication in a "wired" world. Go online to investigate this topic further. You might check an interview that Weick did for Wired magazine (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.04/weick.html).
2			Organization Information Theory stresses that change is the only constant. In this, it has much in common with Chaos Theory. Find a site explaining Chaos Theory and discuss how the two relate and how, together, they shed light on organizational communication in the twenty-first century.