To broaden your understanding of this 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 (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.