The theory that we are about to illustrate furnishes an explanation of the animals" inter population and among species communication phenomena. We shall deal with small predator mammals that live naturally near the city of Samara (Russia, the Volga Region), such as the red fox, the pine marten, the ermine (short-tailed weasel) and the least weasel. Latin names are Vulpes vulpes (L.), Martes mar...

One of the recent web developments has focused on the opportunities it presents for social tagging through user participation and collaboration. As a result, social tagging has changed the traditional online communication process. The interpretation of tagging between humans and machines may create new problems if essential questions about how social tagging corresponds to online communications...

This article examines altruistic social norms among the Dolgans and the Nganasans in Arctic Siberia, drawing on and integrating experimental game theory and semiotic approaches. The article demonstrates the complementarity of these two methodologies in order to more fully understand how sharing is promoted over individual selfaggrandizement in a communal-resource property regime. Any theory of ...

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...

The aim is to outline general differences in two academic cultures, considering historic perspectives: German ‘Kommunikationswissenschaft’ with its roots in ‘Publizistik-’ and ‘Zeitungswissenschaft’ and French ‘Sciences de l’information et de la communication’ with its roots in semiotics and cultural views on communication. There are different internal and external (societal and political) mean...

This article concerns the use of digital learning resources in the Swedish Social Science classroom. The aim is to find specific patterns in pupils ́ subject related interaction and learning when they work with digital learning resources. This is illustrated by means of a Learning Design Sequence LDS which is a model for research and analysis developed within the project Digital media and learni...

Investment in information technology (or IT) does not necessarily bring improvement in business performance. One important cause of this is the divorce between the design of the IT systems and business organisations. An approach of organisational semiotics, based on the understanding of organisations as systems of social norms emphasises the central role of the people, their responsibility and ...

By drawing from semiology, epistemology and philosophical hermeneutics, we discuss the way CSCW models data, situation and activity—information representation. We point out similarities between discourse in hermeneutics and in the anthropology and sociology that predominates in CSCW, and propose that a hermeneutic perspective offers a unifying view on the social science and computer science wit...