scholarly journals Experimental Semiotics: past, present, and future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Nölle ◽  
Bruno Galantucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Systems

Experimental Semiotics (ES) investigates how novel semiotic systems emerge by observing people ground communication in lab games, thus exposing the fundamental principles of human semiosis and the pressures through which they originate. We review the past of ES and describe its key findings. We then discuss challenges and future directions for ES, including how a tighter integration with neuroscience can enrich our understanding of the social processes exposed by ES, and how ES can in turn help neuroscience investigate human semiosis in more realistic settings. ES provides neurosemiotics with new tool to integrate the social and biological components of communication.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Michael P. Roller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Oppressed Group

The conclusion revisits the three major inquiries addressed in the text, drawing together the evidence and contexts provided in the previous seven chapters. The first investigates the role of objective settings, such as the systemic and symbolic violence of landscapes and semiotic systems of racialization in justifying or triggering moments of explicit subjective violence such as the Lattimer Massacre. The second inquiry, traces the trajectory of immigrant groups into contemporary patriotic neoliberal subjects. In other terms, it asks how an oppressed group can become complicit with oppression later in history. The third inquiry traces the development of soft forms of social control and coercion across the longue durée of the twentieth century. Specifically, it asks how vertically integrated economic and governmental structures such as neoliberalism and governmentality which serve to stabilize the social antagonisms of the past are enunciated in everyday life.

scholarly journals Determining Emotions and the Burden of Proof in Investigative Commissions to Palestine

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori A. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Burden Of Proof ◽  
International Community ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Violent Conflicts

AbstractThe conflict in Palestine has been the subject of numerous international investigative commissions over the past century. These have been dispatched by governments to determine the causes of violent conflicts and how to resolve them. Commissions both produce and reflect political epistemologies, the social processes and categories by which proof and evidence are produced and mobilized in political claim-making. Using archival and ethnographic sources, my analysis focuses on three investigative commissions: the King-Crane (1919), Anglo-American (1946), and Mitchell (2001) commissions. They reveal how “reading affect” has been a diagnostic of political worthiness. Through these investigations, Western colonial agents and “the international community” have given Palestinians false hope that discourse and reason were the appropriate and effective mode of politics. Rather than simply reason, however, what each required was maintenance of an impossible balance between the rational and the emotional. This essay explores the ways that affect as a diagnostic of political worthiness has worked as a technology of rule in imperial orders, and has served as an unspoken legitimating mechanism of domination.

scholarly journals Meditation in context: factors that facilitate prosocial behavior

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Condon
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Context Factors ◽  
Contemplative Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Viable Approach ◽  
Relational Contexts

Contemplative science experienced tremendous growth in the past five years in part through new attention to the social processes and prosocial outcomes associated with meditation. Despite this growth, questions persist about the mechanisms and contexts through which meditation increases or fails to increase prosocial behavior. In this article, I draw on Buddhist traditions and empirical efforts to understand the ethical and relational contexts that promote prosocial behavior. In summary, meditation promises a viable approach to increase prosocial behavior, but future research will require a careful, holistic examination of contemplative contexts that foster those outcomes.

The degree zero of digital interfaces: a semiotics of audiovisual archives online

Semiotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Treleani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Audiovisual Archives

Abstract Interfaces have partially replaced editors. They now administer and have industrialized the processes of content circulation. Web platforms mediatize cultural memory and one example of this is that of online audiovisual archives which are a paradigmatic case involving interfaces mediating our image of the past. Therefore, their role as an enunciative framework is clearly worthy of thought and study. We will thus use a semiotic approach based on the starting hypothesis that digital interfaces shape our belief systems through a discursive framing of content to which they give access. By analyzing two case studies, we will argue that the transparency of interfaces appears to recall the notion of “mechanical objectivity” and thus refashion the reliability of the archives. However, a final counter-analysis of a document read in the framework of an on-site consultation invites us to reshape our considerations and enlarge the perspective from semiotic visual analysis to include the social processes linked to the publication of digital heritage.

scholarly journals The social movement concept under debate: from the sixties to the present day

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Departing from the notion of social movement advanced by the theories of resource mobilization, political process and new social movements, the article aims to trace different analytical paths traversed by the studies on social movements and collective action. In this discussion it’s considered the hypothesis that over the past few decades, as the macro-structural approaches were giving way to contributions more focused on the micro-social processes and features of social movements, the debate around the concept of social movement may have lost the relevance assumed by earlier analysis developed during the 1960s and 1970s.

scholarly journals Walking the Past, Acting the Past? Peace March to Srebrenica Commemoration

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ana Ljubojević
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Town

Abstract This article is based on an ethnographic study carried out during the Nezuk-Potočari Peace March in the framework of Srebrenica genocide commemoration. A more than 100-kilometer procession, attracting each year around 5,000 participants, represents the reverse route of the so-called Death March, the local population’s way of escape from the town of Srebrenica in July 1995. Following theoretical insights from both memory studies and cultural geography, this article’s aim is to analyze mnemonic practices commemorating the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moreover, it explores the social processes through which such memory is produced, performed, and maintained. While applying participant observant methodology, I have engaged in conversation with residents and main actors taking part in the Peace March. Finally, the notion of collective memory is approached from the perspective of spatial mobility engagement of people visiting commemorative events and monuments dedicated to the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scholarly journals Natural Language Analysis and the Psychology of Verbal Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future States of the Field

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Ryan L. Boyd ◽  
H. Andrew Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Natural Language Analysis

Throughout history, scholars and laypeople alike have believed that our words contain subtle clues about what we are like as people, psychologically speaking. However, the ways in which language has been used to infer psychological processes has seen dramatic shifts over time and, with modern computational technologies and digital data sources, we are on the verge of a massive revolution in language analysis research. In this article, we discuss the past and current states of research at the intersection of language analysis and psychology, summarizing the central successes and shortcomings of psychological text analysis to date. We additionally outline and discuss a critical need for language analysis practitioners in the social sciences to expand their view of verbal behavior. Lastly, we discuss the trajectory of interdisciplinary research on language and the challenges of integrating analysis methods across paradigms, recommending promising future directions for the field along the way.

scholarly journals Understanding and managing a complex estuary: the process towards more congruence between the physical system characteristics and the management system of the Westerschelde (Netherlands)

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1371-1405
Author(s):  
A. van Buuren ◽  
L. Gerrits
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Westerschelde Estuary ◽  
Adaptive Capabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unique Species ◽  
System Characteristics

Abstract. In this article, we expand on the relationship between the social processes of policymaking, management and research in the context of the Westerschelde estuary. This complex estuary system, located in Belgium and the Netherlands, has its own morphological and ecological characteristics and dynamics, and has three core functions: economically, it makes the port of Antwerp accessible; ecologically, it generates habitats for certain unique species; and in terms of safety, it prevents the hinterland from being flooded. We analyze how the social processes of policymaking, management and analysis have focused on these three aspects, and how they have affected the estuary. We proceed to develop a framework for evaluating the social system of policy-making, management and research. This framework focuses on the social system's adaptive capabilities (how it evolved in a non-linear fashion), integrative capacity (how the system's interconnectivity was taken into account), and participative competencies (how the different interests and insights regarding the estuary were absorbed). This framework was then applied to twenty years of policymaking about, management of, and research on the Westerschelde estuary. We conclude that, because of policy learning effects, policy/management and research take the estuary's self-organizing capacities into account much more than they did in the past. However, the self-referential behaviour of policymakers, managers and researchers makes it possible that an anthropocentric and technocratic approach towards managing the estuary, indicating a disconnection between the social and physical systems, could return.

Rivers, Gatherings, and Infrastructures

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Straw Will
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Distribution ◽  
The Relationship

From an interdisciplinary communications studies perspective, this chapter triangulates the relationship between several ascendant approaches to music, media, and infrastructure. The author notes that infrastructure and affect have performed certain “gathering” functions within the past decades of media studies, albeit as distant poles of attraction. The chapter registers a similarly productive tension in the ways that infrastructural studies of music reassemble their object as the point of convergence of multiple histories of materials, movements, and social processes, while infrastructural media studies trace the ways in which materials, networks, and assemblages of various kinds carry out the social distribution of meaning, affect, and memory.

scholarly journals Nostalgia for the soviet in the modern media scene

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (119) ◽  
pp. 133-143
Author(s):  
Tanjana S. Zlotnikova ◽  
◽  
Vladislava M. Kuimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

The article sets out the current and paradoxical problem of nostalgia, the object of which is the Soviet past, Soviet being, the idea of soviet life as a source of stability and moral and psychological certainty. Nostalgia is considered as a cultural philosophical metaphor and as an academically conceived subject of study in the interdisciplinary paradigm. The definition correlates with psychological discomfort and with the need to return the past, perceived as a harmonically arranged life. The concept of nostalgia and the phenomenon it denotes correlate with several problematic discourses, being at the intersection of socio-cultural, philosophical and worldview, historical, symbolic and psychological aspects. Nostalgia turns out to be a way of mythologizing the Soviet past, actualizing the personal experience of representatives of different generations as experiencing negative and requiring overcoming psychological conflicts. The research methodology is related to the deep traditions of socio-philosophical and philosophical-anthropological issues, consists in ideas about the cyclical nature of social processes and phenomena of cultural life. Based on the judgments of N. Berdyaev, S. Bulgakov, other philosophers and publicists, the significance of the aspect of nostalgia associated with longing for lost Russia and for lost spaces, emotions, links is affirmed. For the noble environment, the subject of nostalgia is pre-revolutionary Russia, the image of which is being idealized, and the social problems of the monarchist state go into oblivion. Soviet existence is permeated by longing for the past. Living generations see psychoemotional reactions in the Soviet past, which are broadcast as present there and absent in the current society – the value of friendship, the duration of love, interest in life, social inclusion, willingness to make decisions and lack of infantility, early adulthood; collectivism, stability, camaraderie are being updated as an alternative to the loss of socially significant ideals. The dynamics of nostalgic manifestations in several generations of Soviet and post-Soviet people is noted. We analyze media, in particular, presented in television and cinematic products, manifestations of nostalgia for strength and harmony, fidelity to the chosen path and masculine certainty (sports issues, appeal to the discourse of power).

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