On the belief that the universe is a semiosic web Sebeok placed no limits on semiotic inquiry as he chose to conduct it. In terms of fields of semiosis and objects of analysis Sebeok’s interests ranged from his studies in biology to his reflections relatively to lingusitics, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence, his musements relatively to narrative esthetic signs, his interest in ecology a...

Traditional information systems theory and practice assumes a tight coupling or integration between workpractices in organisations and the information systems which are notionally built to support them. The relationship between the integration and the separation of workpractices and system features has been theorised as dialectical. It has also been argued that the goal of system design would b...

Contemporary digital learning environments, such as tangibles, mobile and sensor-based technologies are inherently multimodal, both in terms of representation modalities and interaction modes. Drawing on social semiotics, multimodality offers a valuable approach for analysing video data, as it systematically attends to the interpretation of a wide range of communicational forms (e.g. gaze, post...

This paper is an overview of a new ap proach to requirements the exposition takes formality and informality as its theme The approach considers that requirements are information and that informa tion is social Ethnomethodology and semiotics are used to explore the nature of information and require ments Some limits of formalization and the impor tance of tacit knowledge and evolution motivate n...

The use of semiotics has been proposed in studying the ways in which information is mediated in computer systems, particularly in user interfaces. Goguen's algebraic semiotics provides a formal tool for studying the systematic use of signs in computer systems, and for presenting formal comparisons of diierent interface designs. The formal elements of algebraic semiotics make it a kind of algebr...

Acknowledgements: The early draft of this paper has been orally presented at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Annual Conference 2004 “Critique Today”, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Division of SCMP, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 8-10 December, 2004, session 17 “Phenomenology, Semiotics, Ethics”. Th...

In this paper I consider the usefulness of the compositional hierarchy model in understanding the information flows involved in group behaviors in animals. I propose that short-term memory can function to transduce information across scale, thereby connecting different modes of information and mediating coherent group motions. This transduction I propose to be mediated by the “sign” as understo...

This paper reflects on the importance of social to analysis historical multimodal texts and how some concepts analytical tools from SFL can prevent researchers getting most their data. Building work Ledin Machin (2018), it looks at three main areas concern when dealing with texts—context, attention micro, meso macro levels, historically-developed affordances—and uses examples Edwardian book ins...

We examine the notions of meaning and information for animals or agents engaged in interaction games. Concepts from cognitive ethology, linguistics, semiotics, and evolution are surveyed. Innateness, individual learning, and social aspects (social learning and cultural transmission) of the evolution of communication are treated. Studies on animals and agents showing degrees of communication are...