In this article I shall present the summary with synthesis and refinement of the original basic ideas and arguments that firstly appeared in a series of my Japanese articles (Nishibe, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010). 0. Introduction In order to redefine the characteristics of CCs as integrative communication media in the next section, we, first of all, refer to Niklas Luhmann’s ideas and classifications of ‘communication media’ (Luhmann, 1984, 1988). 1. Money and Language as communication media