Semiotix n°13, octobre 2008
ISSN: 1916-7296
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Editorial Can Semiotics Survive the Petabytes Era? By Paul Bouissac The main stock of semiotics – its epistemological substance so to speak– consists of a set of models that were constructed in order to accountfor small data samples. (...) But what does happen when the dataavailable are stored in the form of bytes numbering in the tens ofthousands of trillions? Read more...
The Communication of Meaning and Knowledge in a Knowledge-Based Economy
By Loet Leydesdorff Thearticulation of the idea that human beings not only provide meaning toevents, but are able to communicate meaning in addition to and ininteraction with the communication of information emerged graduallyduring the 20th century with the development of sociology as adiscipline. Read more...
State of the Art Project Narrative: An Interview with David Herman on the State of the Art in Narrative Studies The following text is part of an interview with David Herman regarding the Project Narrative initiative based at Ohio State University and other recent developments in the domain of narrative inquiry. Read more...
World Report
The Semiotic Circle of California By Scott Simpkins Inthe mid-1980s, a handful of semioticians organized the Semiotic Circleof California at the University of California, Berkeley, a group thatremains as eclectic as the city itself. Read more...
World Report
Exploring Levels of Reality: A Metanexus Conference in Madrid (July 2008) By Carlo Scognamiglio The session “Exploring Non-Reduction and Levels of Reality”, within theMetanexus' event “Subject, Self, and Soul: Transdisciplinary Approachesto Personhood” (Madrid, 13-17 July, 2008), proposed different points ofview on the problem of an antireductionist theory of reality. Read more...
State of the Art The Study of the Semiotics of Law: An International and Interdisciplinary Research Group By Anne Wagner The International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law held its first annual meeting in 2002 after the merger of two pre-existing organisations with different emphases in their theoretical approaches. Read more...
World Report
An International Masters Program in Semiotics is created at Tartu University By Katre Väli and Kalevi Kull The Department of Semiotics at Tartu University is pleased to announce the launching of a new English MA program in the fall of 2009. Read more...
World Report
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts By Margaret Freeman Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts (MICA) was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2008 by Mark Turner and Donald and Margaret Freeman. Read more...