The requirements of software are key elements that contribute to the quality and users satisfaction of the final system. In this work, Requirements Engineering (RE) of web sites is presented using an organizational semiotics perspective. They are shown as being part of an organization, with particular practices, rules and views considering stakeholders several differences and opinions. The main...

Literature has shown the influence of the social, cultural and organisational aspects involved in the process of developing information systems. The Unified Process (UP) has been widely used in the software industry, but literature has shown its drawbacks when applied to the modelling of human actions in the social and organisational contexts. Our research investigates the use of Organisational...

We lack scientiic theories that can support the design of virtual worlds, which we construe in a broad way to include graphics-and text-based systems, as well as user interfaces of all kinds. Semiotics would seem a natural choice, but it (1) lacks mathematical precision, (2) considers single signs (e.g., a novel or a lm), not systems of signs, and (3) doesn't address interaction, or (4) social ...

<p>Discourse on halal tourism appears rife in a number of communication channels. The flow the journey presence word is influenced by actors who play an important role development products Indonesia. This course can be traced based track record reporting discourse that was presented past ten years from 2012 to 2021. search easily through digital media news. Opinions pros and cons related ...

Indonesia-Malaysia is two neighboring countries in Southeast Asia. The geographical proximity makes the have a lot common. However, this similarity does not guarantee that can coexist harmoniously. One of problems relationship between border-related issues, such as illegal fishing border area. This issue has been widely covered by Indonesian mass media, including Metro TV and TVRI. paper tries ...

The growth of technological innovations, internet developments, and their (web) applications has raised a definite issue on retaining the web interface quite understandable. Moreover, a need is also being felt on developing suitable and coherent guidelines for designing interface to swell the user interpretability of web signs. These design principles are semiotics by nature and semiotics is th...

To what extent is semiotics an appropriate model for understanding material culture meaning? The answer to this question, of course, depends upon the kinds of semiotics that one is talking about. In our article we argue that Saussurean and post-Saussurean approaches favored by some Postprocessualists are incomplete and advocate an alternative approach inspired by the ‘other father’ of semiotics...

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...