A study of communication scheme for media biotope

The concept of “media biotope” is discussed from the viewpoint of system informatics. Media biotope is a concept of communication mediums in which the structures are discussed as an analogy of a biotope of the nature world. In this scheme, communities created with local media that are connected with and mutually influence each other. First of all, Shannon and Weaver´s model for communication media is expanded in order to discuss the creating process of media biotopes. In this scheme, information sender is not necessarily required, and receivers obtains information by recognizing signs around them. Furthermore, the recognizing process of receivers is illustrated by using the channel theory, which is a mathematical tool for describing information flows.