1 Social media are now an integrated part of culture and digitally mediated social activities. Screen-based devices now employ sophisticated graphics including visual movement on a variety of platforms. This paper explores how visually dynamic interfaces can enhance social media applications. A socio-cultural view on communication and interaction design is combined with a practice-based researc...

Traditional information system methods and organization theories fail to give a clear account of virtuality, virtual organizations, horizontalized organization structures and governance forms, and multiple active representations. Semiotics helps us in finding new approaches for inquiry and design of virtual organizations and information systems at the social level, the pragmatic level, and the ...

as a distinct socially constructed genre, wedding invitations (wis) offer a fruitful site for investigating how two areas of genre knowledge (i.e., form and content) change over time under the influence of sociocultural forces. through the examination of 100 iranian wis dating from 1970s to the present time, the study investigated the trajectories of change through time within the social semiot...