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…
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…
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…
Track chairs:• Everardo Reyes (Université Paris 8, France)• Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, USA)• Giancarlo Ruffo (Università di Torino, Italy) The international conference on Web Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific gathering that investigates the World Wide Web as an object of inquiry. It conceives the Web as an expansive entity: an extended space that reaches…
New Publication：Autumn Issue of Signs & Media 2020（The Bilingual Version）http://www.semiotics.net.cn/index.php/zine_view/index/137 The exploration of semiotics is always full of vitality. It constantly expands into new theoretical fields and deepens the understanding and interpretation of its theoretical basis. In the section on “Philosophical Semiotics”, the authors revisit the thoughts and concepts of the classical semioticians to obtain…
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…
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…
HERITAGE AND THE CITY – Semiotics and Politics of Cultural Memory in Urban Spaces Guest Editors: Francesco Mazzucchelli (University of Bologna), Maria Rosaria Vitale (University of Catania), Massimo Leone (University of Turin/University of Shanghai) This Special Issue of Lexia aims at bringing together articles that critically reflect, from a semiotic angle, on the relation between…
