2024 - Smart Semiotics

Facial expression, a gateway to affective semiotics

Announcing a webinar on Facial expression, a gateway to affective semiotics by Marc Mehu, Department of Psychology, Webster Vienna Private University. Sunday January 19, 2025, at 04:00 PM GMT (UTC +0) In communication, the access to […]

Love and Sex in the Digital Age: A Semiotic Perspective

Love and Sex in the Digital Age: A Semiotic Perspective Kristian Bankov New Bulgarian University Abstract and Figures This second issue of our journal addresses an uneasy topic. It is uneasy exactly because it is […]

Attention Mechanism in AI Systems and its Relevance for Textual Pragmatics,a webinar by Prof. Kristian Bankov (New Bulgarian University)

Attention mechanism in AI systems and its relevance for textual pragmatics Sun, 8 Dec 2024, 15:00 UTC Prof. Kristian Bankov, New Bulgarian University The discovery of the attention mechanism in deep learning algorithms became for […]

Launching a new platform for planet-friendly conferences: The International Semiotics Commons

International conferences are anachronic remnants from the past century that have outlived their legitimacy and functionality. These events generate outlandish Carbon Footprints, and the sheer number of participants hinders the quantity and quality of interactions […]

DECODING WAR

Frank Jacob, editor, War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation,Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence, Routledge Studies in ModernHistory, London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 324pp. By Gary Genosko The lives of […]

Fiction and (Dis)belief: Representation in Symbolic Behaviour

Robert Yelle, author of The Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History (Bloomsbury, 2012) reviews Devotion and Artifice: Themes of Suspension in the History of Religions, by Peter Jackson Rova (De Gruyter, 2023). […]

Webinar on “Integrating Technology in Smart City Projects: A Semiotic Approach”

Semiotics in the First-Person #2

By Geoffrey Sykes. BA 10 Seat 44K. 6.10 A few minutes after takeoff a most dramatic thing happened to the aircraft. Let me explain. Seated, I realize that the main reason for arriving early at […]

Semiotics of the Dragon and Other Celestial Signs: a webinar by Professor Marcel Danesi.

Semiotics of the Dragon and Other Celestial Signs: In European cultural traditions, the dragon is envisioned as a fire-breathing mythical monster resembling a giant reptile with wings, symbolizing chaos, whereas in East Asia it is […]

Semiotics in the First-Person

Semiotics is not merely a set of theories and methods whose aim is to explore and explain various meaning-making processes through detached analytical discourses. It is also a cognitive experience that affects our ways of […]

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From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom

November 27, 2025 0

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom By Dr. Robert Finkelstein Robotic Technology Inc.,President and University of Maryland As with “intelligence,” there are many definitions of wisdom and none are totally satisfactory. Our pragmatic definition of wisdom is: a system […]

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Webinar on the semiotics of today’s orientalism.

October 2, 2025 0

Webinar on the semiotics of today’s orientalism by Professor Lia Yoka (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) Orientalist painting: rigid metaphors, flexible meanings Abstract The allure and cultural backwardness of an imaginary East in dominant Western discourse, a set of values and stereotypes […]

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Smart Semiotics webinar – “The semiotics of contemporary currency design”

February 26, 2025 0

Title: “The semiotics of contemporary currency design” Description: Banknotes and coins are material objects that circulate in our everyday lives. We recognize them as such thanks to their appearance and, particularly, to their design. In […]

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Facial expression, a gateway to affective semiotics

December 29, 2024 0

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Attention Mechanism in AI Systems and its Relevance for Textual Pragmatics,a webinar by Prof. Kristian Bankov (New Bulgarian University)

November 26, 2024 0

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