The research on organizational semiotics deals predominantly with the question of how to bring the notion of information to bear on semiotically conceived accounts of human organizations. In this talk, I take up what I perceive as some of the key theoretical and conceptual elements involved in this endeavour. I will assess their status from the points of view of philosophy of science and Peirce...

Information visualization design is generally ad hoc, using trial and error, and perhaps drawing on experience with prior visualization systems. This paper suggests a di erent approach: general design principles based on a combination of algebraic abstract data type theory, semiotics, and social theory. Major concepts include semiotic spaces to describe systems of related signs, semiotic morphi...

Organisational Semiotics (OS) aims to provide new methodologies, techniques and tools to the development of information systems and organisations by applying semiotic theories and studies, therefore offering a new perspective on the field, which incorporates technical and social aspects. In order to apply semiotics to Information Systems (IS) and Information technology (IT) different approaches...

Semiotics mainly studies the role of symbols in signals, language, culture, human behavior, and social mechanisms. Based on semiotic theory female images, this article explores relationship between feminist ideas appearance, self-choice film television dramas, reasons for prevalence feminism, why feminism influences images dramas. Semiotics, a branch linguistics, how signs convey meaning variou...

In Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS), metaphor is identified as a key index of ideology and an important device in the legitimation of social action. From this perspective, metaphor is a cognitive-semiotic operation, invoked by metaphorical expressions in discourse, in which a source frame is mobilised to provide a template for sense-making inside a target frame, leading ...

Strange attractors – emerging out of the chaotic dynamics of the thoughts and feelings constantly swarming in the mental space of each individual – encapsulate topologies of meaning-making units and offer a key to a unified semiotic and cognitive understanding of meaning. Being dynamic constructs, Strange Attractors of Meaning have both spatial and temporal characteristics. The spatial characte...

This paper introduces a Semiotic Appoach to Hypertext Theory. Having been applied to Informatics only in recent years, Semiotics promises a broader understanding of Hypertext as a structure of signs. The rapid visualization of the World Wide Web seems to justify this approach. Using the methodology of applied Semiotics and Graph Theory, the author analyses the challenges and restrictions of Hyp...

Software Evolution is a fact in industrial life. More than that, maintenance is one of the most expensive phases on software life cycle. Additionally, social and organizational aspects are increasingly gaining greater importance for information systems development. In this context, Organizational Semiotics has been considered a promising tool, providing the framework MEASUR for requirements gat...

This paper sets forth semiotics as a viable theoretical foundation of information design. In addition to presenting a brief history of the development of semiotics it also gives three examples of how semiotic principles are applied to specific fields of study. These areas include information systems engineering, organizational decision support systems, information intensive web interfaces, and ...