RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

of the self-management organization of Vugoslav society The introduction of the deJegate svstem has particularh? renuired the redefinition of the functions of the communications svstem. The pualitv and structuralization of content has also given rise to the specific communications situation of the Tugoslav svstem which acts in an extremelv diversified environment, in constant confrontation with and competition from foreign ideological and propagande svstems I nter-republic and inter-cultural (inter-national) communication have, then, a pronounced integration function. From the viewpoint of communications science this means that these are the uninue media of sociati' for achieving agreement, cooperation and integration. Information is a cohesive social link which makes possible mutual (horizontal) linking of societi' (as a measure against its atomization), as well as vertical linking (as a measure against its oligarchization). D ecentralized and polvcentral svstems particularlv reouire highlv structured communications svstems which are capable of attaining consensus in the process of forming and influencing opinion on the basis of mutual values. It is well known that communications integration is a contradictorv process, that a phase of differentiation of opinion and integration efforts is ahvavs succaeded bv a phase of reintegration on a higher level of the communications process of discoverv. This verv confrontation and integration on the basis of ”new” values is what makes social cohesion possible All of of this is, of course, true of communications processes which are carried out between the republics, between the nations and the nationalities, A communications republic subsvstem ofVugoslav societi' can also be seen from the angle of its autonomv, that is, as an independent republic svstem From this point of view, the principle of linking with the the environment is also valid - not, of course, through diversification in such a sense as for the whole Yugoslav svstem. The puestion of openess to neighbouring communications svtems is also encountered. Openess in this case implies exchanges of energv and information