Organizations mediate media conversion because direct exchange is prohibited

Evidence

This example already shows us the type of solution we are interested in – direct confrontation between media, their respective values and behavioural directives, and their amalgamation can be avoided by changing the system reference and by shifting the problem of conversion onto the level of organizations. One does not finance truths but organizations which more or less successfully concern themselves with exploring and ascertaining truths or untruths. Mutatis mutandis, a similar situation results with the conversion of property and money into power. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 786

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s thesis: Stevens defers to the household as the organization that converts institutional loyalty into power — the organization is the mediating form that makes faceless commitment possible.
• DEFINE: Defines the organization as the switching station that lets media interpenetrate without direct convertibility.