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Theories of coregulation describe communication as a creative and dynamic continuous process, rather than a discrete exchange of information.

Canadian media scholar Harold Innis had the theory that people use different types of media to communicate and which one they choose to use will offer different possibilities for the shape and durability of society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).

His famous example of this is using ancient Egypt and looking at the ways they built themselves out of media with very different properties stone and papyrus.

Papyrus is what he called ' Space Binding '.

it made possible the transmission of written orders across space, empires and enables the waging of distant military campaigns and colonial administration.

The other is stone and ' Time Binding ', through the construction of temples and the pyramids can sustain their authority generation to generation, through this media they can change and shape communication in their society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).