New Book: Introducing Relational Political Analysis. Political Semiotics as a Theory and Method

By Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they…

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New Book: Strategic Conspiracy Narratives. A Semiotic Approach

By Mari-Liis Madisson and Andreas Ventsel Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted audience. Conspiracy theories play a significant role in the viral spread of misinformation that has an impact on the formation of public opinion about certain…

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New Book: Persona by Claudio Paolucci

Persona. Soggettività nel linguaggio e semiotica dell’enunciazione (Bompiani 2020) Per la lingua italiana, la persona è l’individuo; per l’etimologia è la maschera; per il teatro è il personaggio; per la linguistica è la categoria in cui si esprime la soggettività. E per la semiotica? La teoria dell’enunciazione dice che l’io della lingua è un messaggero…

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New Book: Mediation and Immediacy. A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion

Edited by: Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle,  and Massimo Leone Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to…

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New Book: Meaning-Making in Extended Reality. Federico Biggio, Victoria Dos Santos, Gianmarco Thierry Giuliana

A cura di Federico Biggio, Victoria Dos Santos, Gianmarco Thierry Giuliana Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality are at the center of the contemporary media scenario and the latest expressions of digital culture. These different yet alike technologies are innovating and successfully used in very different fields such as entertainment, rehabilitation, professional training, art and urban design. However, these…

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New book: Wittgenstein’s Secret Diaries. Semiotic Writing in Cryptography – Dinda L. Gorlée

Dinda L. Gorlée Wittgenstein’s Secret Diaries. Semiotic Writing in Cryptography. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works encompass a huge number of notebooks, lectures, and articles, as well as his own private diaries. Written mainly in coded script, Wittgenstein’s autobiographical diaries interpolate his writings on the philosophy of language. The diaries were previously unknown to…

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New book: Semiotics and Visual Communication III. Cultures of Branding

Editor: Evripides Zantides The chapters in this book consist of selected papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference and Poster Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology in November 2017. They investigate the theme of the third conference, “The Semiotics of Branding”, and look at branding and brand…

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Nuevo Libro: “Mediatizaciones: territorios y segmentaciones” del Centro de Investigaciones en Mediatizaciones (CIM)

Con mucha alegría, compartimos el último libro publicado por el Centro de Investigaciones en Mediatizaciones (CIM): Mediatizaciones: territorios y segmentaciones (UNR Editora). El mismo ha sido editado por Mariano Fernández y Sandra Sánchez y compendia algunas de las exposiciones presentadas en ocasión del Coloquio Anual del CIM 2018. El libro se encuentra subido al sitio del…

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