Communication "arises through a synthesis of three different selections, namely, selection of information, selection of the utterance of this information, and a selective understanding or misunderstanding of this utterance and its information"

Luhmann’s model decenters the subject, excluding the direct involvement of the human (sender/ receiver) and replacing it with components that consist of symbols, words or sentences (communicative media). These components give form through the selection of information (taken from previous communication), utterance (articulation of information) and understanding (as the difference between informa- tion and utterance).

Luhmann, N. (1992). What is Communication? Communication Theory : CT : A Journal of the International Communication Association, 2(3), 251–259. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00042.x

Cesaratto, T. (2015). The Radical Luhmann. Contemporary Political Theory, 14(3), e22–e26. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2014.40