This paper presents semiotics as a framework for unders tanding and designing computer systems as sign systems. Although semiotic methods can be applied to all levels of computer systems, they view computer systems under a particular perspective, namely as targets of interpretations. When we need to see c o m p u t e r systems as automata, semiotics has little to offer. The main focus of the pa...

This article undertakes the anthropology of an equation that constitutes the essence of an algorithm that underlies a variety of computational technologies—most notably spam filters, but also data-mining tools, diagnostic tests, predictive parsers, risk assessment techniques, and Bayesian reasoning more generally. The article foregrounds the ways ontologies are both embodied in and transformed ...

In this lecture, we will discuss the emergence of the semiotic function, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically, and we will consider the part played by the picture sign in this development. In order to demonstrate that pictures are indeed signs, we will explore the basic elements of the sign presupposed but never put into focus neither by Saussure nor by Peirce. Indeed, explorations in the ...

El artículo sostiene que los lugares de memoria poseen una dimensión pedagógica constitutiva, caracterizada por la contingencia comunicativa no permite reducir interpretación del pasado a sola versión. Para ello, se propone el concepto semiosis nemotécnica. Además, texto reflexiona sobre las características y su vínculo con patrimonio; argumenta esto es necesario para lograr reparación víctimas...

Abstract This article examines the semiotic implications of social media interactive processes established when Facebook profiles are memorialized following user’s death. It also observes communication that occur through deceased’s contacts interactions with virtual memorial page. points to Facebook’s symbolic and systemic organization structure role in creating a specific comprehension online ...

The dichotomy between the qualitative and quantitative has been a classic throughout history of science. As will be seen, this permeates all ontological levels reality. In work, phenomenological examples potentially related to semiosis are presented at different established by Mario Bunge Josep Ferrater Mora, contrasting categorizations with quantifiable physical Likewise, need continue in quan...

Abstract This paper is a critical appreciation of some Gunther Kress’s central (social) semiotic notions: i.e., motivation , materiality rhetorical aptness and mode versus medium . These will be discussed in relation to four landmark models sign-making semiosis by Saussure, Peirce, Bühler Jakobson. Based on these comments, the identifies persistent difficulties current multimodality research fa...

El presente ensayo toma a su cargo el análisis de dos textos con orígenes muy distintos. primero, cuento Los reyes y los laberintos del escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges; segundo, la letra canción Dime Store Mystery cantautor neoyorquino Lou Reed. emplea instrumentos metodológicos provenientes semiótica francesa y, en específico, aportes hipótesis tensiva, cuales permiten una aproximación me...