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Type: educational

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Author: Andreas Schonle (Editor)

Tags: culture meaning Lotman contexts

Description: A collection of articles about Lotman's work and his influence on our understanding ofA collection of articles about Lotman's work and his influence on our understanding of Culture. One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a broad range of cultural phenomena, from the opposition between Russia and the West to the symbolic construction of space, from cinema to card playing, from the impact of theater on painting to the impact of land-scape design on poetry. His insights have been particularly important in conceptualizing the creation of meaning and understanding the function of art and literature in society, and they have enriched the work of such diverse figures as Paul Ricoeur, Stephen Greenblatt, Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Julia Kristeva, and Federic Jameson. In this volume edited by Andreas Schonle, contributors extend Lotman's theories to a number of fields. Focusing on his less frequently studied later period, "Lotman and Cultural Studies" engages with such ideas as the "semiosphere," the fluid, dynamic semiotic environment out of which meaning emerges; "auto-communication," the way in which people create narratives about themselves that in turn shape their self-identity; change, as both gradual evolution and an abrupt, unpredictable "explosion;" power; law and mercy; Russia and the West; center and periphery. ...

2007-12-21

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Type: educational

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Author: David K Berlo

Tags: culture semiotics communication meaning semiosis

2006-04-06

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Type: technical

Status: to read

Authors: Anthony Baldry Paul J. Thibault

Tags: technology discourse meaning multimodality

Description: What are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internetWhat are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internet help us in multimodal discourse analysis? What postproduction and authoring skills are needed to analyse a multimodal text or to develop a corpus of multimodal texts? How does integrating multimedia meaning-making resources into hypertext multiply our meaning-making potential? How does the study of language relate to multimodality and multimedia, in particular in the e-learning age? How, and to what extent, will multimodal discourse analysis re-shape linguistics? In its attempt to provide answers to the questions raised above, and many others, this book proposes concrete solutions to the problems of multimodal text analysis and transcription of printed texts, websites and film. As such, it constitutes a much needed course in multimodal text transcription and analysis. It also suggests ways in which multimodal discourse analysis can help both educators and students understand how meaning is made in the e-learning environments that now play such an important role in our lives. In both these respects, readers are encouraged to use the book in conjunction with an associated and freely accessible website which provides many illustrations and exercises that further contextualise and exemplify the insights and descriptions provided by the book. As befits a coursebook, the individual chapters of the book are carefully organised in such a way as to provide a step-by-step progression in theoretical and descriptive complexity. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: technical

Status: liked

Author: Alex McHoul

Tags: culture semiotics meaning semiosis

Description: In "Semiotic Investigations", Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he callsIn "Semiotic Investigations", Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics" - a theory that investigates "the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses." As McHoul notes, "these uses take place in a number of 'media,' the most important of which is the medium of history - so important, in fact, that it catches up all the other possible media of semiosis, including everyday life and language, fiction, film, talk, art, mathematics, [and] photography." McHoul expounds his theory of effective semiotics - of "meaning-as-use" - in a series of provocative chapters on diverse topics. He begins by examining the relations between semiotics and history and between semiotics and specific communities. He elaborates on the nature of these relations by demonstrating the "effective semiotics" of a particular photograph from the 1880s, episodes from the film Singin' in the Rain and the Batman comics, literary works, children's primers, popular accounts of science, and many other objects, artifacts, and experiences. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: educational

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Author: Etienne Wenger

Tags: practice meaning activity interaction

Description: This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement inThis book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic.
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2006-04-06

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Type: technical

Status: to read

Authors: J. David Bolter Jay David Bolter

Tags: media writing meaning hypertextuality representation

2006-04-06

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Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Carey Jewitt

Tags: technology education meaning multimodality literacy representation

Description: With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, thisWith the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy; and literacy across the curriculum. A well-known author in this field, Carey Jewitt shows how all three are reshaped by the multimodal resources and facilities of new technologies, and points the way to rethinking learning and teaching in this environment. Jewitt takes the reader through an exhaustive analysis of teaching and learning with technology-mediated materials such as CD-ROMs, websites, the Internet, computer programming applications and computer games, relating each in turn to the main curriculum topics of English, Mathematics and Science. Through this detailed scrutiny the following questions emerge: - How do the new technologies reshape knowledge as curriculum? - How does the use of new technologies in the classroom reshape learning pedagogy? - As writing moves from page to screen, what is the impact on students' situated literacy practices and how does it effect learning? Through these questions, this book demonstrates that mode, technology and curriculum knowledge are fundamentally connected, and describes how teacher and students roles in the classroom could be altered in the face of new technologies. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: David Trend (ed.)

Tags: technology culture communication knowledge meaning

Description: Reading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debateReading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debate about the future of information technology. Definitive essays by many of the field's most widely read commentators - Virilio, Haraway, Landow, Castells, Aronowitz, Plant, Ross, Zizek, Guattari - range across issues that are central to digital life and culture: knowledge production, cyber-identity, computer art, online community, Internet commerce, and the effect of technology on work and leisure. With contributions from both inside and outside the technology field, Reading Digital Culture will be essential reading for anyone interested in - and living in the midst of - the digital revolution. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: John Markoff

Tags: technology culture meaning

2006-04-06

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Type: educational

Status: disliked

Author: I. A. Richards

Tags: metaphor rhetoric meaning

Description: "Our communication is limited by misunderstanding." A reader on rhetoric. Series"Our communication is limited by misunderstanding." A reader on rhetoric. Series of Lectures dating back to 1936. Of passing interest but finally decided it wasn't really that useful or interesting....

2005-10-30