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…
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…
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…
We are pleased to announce the publication of the “The Fugue of the Five Senses and the Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium: Selected Proceedings from the 11th International Conference of the Hellenic Semiotic Society”. You can download the proceedings here.
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…
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…
