Semiotics of digital cacogastromania

Semiotics in Digital Visualisation

Form and Format: Towards a Semiotics of Digital Text Encoding

Theories of the sign T his consideration begins in the theories of signification proposed in Structuralism, particularly as elucidated by Ferdinand de Saussure and interpreted by Roland Barthes (drawing on Hjelmslev and others). It will further be informed by the general theory of “autopoiesis” as articulated byMaturana and Varela (1987) and by other recent studies of language and signification...

Instrument Semiotics

In this and the following companion paper, Tearing Interfaces Apart, we shall present a theoretical semiotic analysis of interfaces and demonstrate how this analysis can be coupled to an empirical analysis of a work domain and its changing needs for information. The work domain is maritime maneuvering and navigation. We do this by exploiting two senses of the concept “analysis”. “Analysis” mean...

Semiotics of ideology

If an ‘ideology’, in its broadest sense, is ‘a system of ideas’, semiotics, the study of sign systems, is predestined to make essential contributions to the study of ideologies. The semiotic approach to the study of ideology begins with an investigation of the concept itself, which has changed considerably in the course of its history. Theoretical semiotics has studied signs of ideologies and i...

Experimental Semiotics

In the last few years, researchers have begun to study novel human communication systems in the laboratory (Experimental Semiotics, ES). The first goal of this article is to provide a primer to ES, which we will do by reviewing the experimental paradigms developed by experimental semioticians, as well as the main research themes that have emerged in the discipline. A second goal is to illustrat...