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This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics, describe the advent of the Information Age and cybernetics, and lay out the proposition that notions of system, communication, self-reference, information, meaning, form, autopoiesis, and self-control are of equal topical interest to semiotics and systems theory. Subsequent chapters introduce a cybersemiotic viewpoint on the capacity of arts and other practices for knowing. This suggests pathways for developing Practice as Research and practice-led research, and prompts the reader to view this new configuration in cybersemiotic terms. Other contributors discuss cultural and perceptual shifts that lead to interaction with hybrid environments such as Alexa. The relationship of storytelling and cybersemiotics is covered at chapter length, and another chapter describes an individual-collectivity dialectics, in which the latter (Commind) constrains the former (interactants), but the former fuels the latter. The concluding chapter begins with the observation that digital technologies have infiltrated every corner of the metropolis - homes, workplaces, and places of leisure - to the extent that cities and bodies have transformed into interconnected interfaces. The book challenges the reader to participate in a broader discussion of the potential, limitations, alternatives, and criticisms of cybersemiotics.

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Author:   Carlos Vidales ,  Søren Brier
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Volume:   21
Weight:   0.872kg
ISBN:  

9783030527488

ISBN 10:   3030527484
Pages:   555
Publication Date:   16 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Carlos Vidales and Søren Brier  1. Cybersemiotics in the Information Age Marcel Danesi  2. Cybersemiotic systemic and semiotical based transdisciplinarity Søren Brier  3. From semiotics, to cybernetics to cybersemiotics: the question of communication and meaning processes in living systems Carlos Vidales  4. System, sign, information, and communication in cybersemiotics, systems theory, and Peirce Winfried Nöth  5. Transdisciplinary Realism Basarab Nicolescu  6. Practice-led research as knowing: a cybersemiotic overview Paul Cobley  7. The blind men and the elephant: Towards an organization of epistemic contexts Michael Kleineberg  8. Communicology, Cybernetics, and Chiasm: A Synergism of Logic and Semiotic Richard L. Lanigan  9. The Return of Philosophy: A Systemic Semiotics Approach Berna Leticia Valle Canales  10. HCI Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience Claudia Jacques  11. The Communication of Form. Why cybersemiotic star is necessary for information studies? Liqian Zhou  12. From ‘motivation’ to ‘constraints’, from ‘discourse’ to ‘modelling systems’: pushing multimodal discourse analysis towards cybersemiotics Sara Canizzaro  13. Towards a cybersemiotic philology of Buddhist knowledge forms: How to undo objects and concepts in process-philosophical terms Alina Therese Lettner  14. Cybersemiotics and Phenomenology: a critical review of the conditions of possibility of “observation” from a Transcendental Semiotics Julio Horta  15. Storytelling and Cybersemiotics David M. Boje  16. Communication and evolution Vivian Romeu  17. Prolegomena to Cybersemiotic discourse pragmatics. Total human evolutionary cognition and communication Ole Nedergaard Thomsen  18. The cities and the bodies as cyberinterfaces Lucia Santaella   

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Søren Brier is an Associate professor, PhD, Dr. phil, in the Department of Management, Society, and Communication at the Copenhagen Business School. He is an interdisciplinary researcher that has moved from an MA in biology (ecology and behavioral sciences) over a gold medal thesis in psychology (philosophy of ethology) both Copenhagen U. through a PhD in philosophy of information sciences (Roskilde U.) after 10 year teaching at the Royal School of Library and Information science to a Habilitat in Cybersemiotics combining the natural, life, social and technical sciences with the humanities though an integration of a Peircean biosemiotic and Luhmann's autopoietic system science into a transdisciplinary framework (Copenhagen Business School).Cybersemiotics is now described in several international encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks in linguistics, semiotics, Informations science, cybernetics and system science. He created an interdisciplinary journal in the area called “Cybernetics & Human Knowing” in 1992 and have been editor-in-chief ever since.   Carlos Vidales is a Faculty Member of the Department of Social Communication Studies at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. He is the author of several books, articles and book chapters all related with semiotics and communication theory. He is scholar of the International Communicology Institute, and the general coordinator of the undergraduate program in Public Communication in the University of Guadalajara. He is member of the National Research System of the Mexican Council of Science and Technology. “Managing Editor of the Journal “Cybernetics and Human Knowing”. 

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