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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiosis"  title="semiosis">semiosis</a><br/><br/><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=8N3tz66LcHQ&offerid=99238.10000006&type=4&subid=0"><IMG  
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:22:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22239_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>communication</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics: multimodal discourse. This volume opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of new communication technologies: The impact on how discourse data is collected, transcribed, and analyzed-and the impact that these technologies are having on social interaction and discourse. As inexpensive tape recorders allowed the field to move beyond text, written or printed language, to capture talk-discourse as spoken language-the information explosion (including cell phones, video recorders, Internet chat rooms, online journals, and the like) has moved those in the field to recognize that all discourse is, in various ways, &quot;multimodal,&quot; constructed through speech and gesture, as well as through typography, layout, and the materials employed in the making of texts. <br />
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/discourse"  title="discourse">discourse</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/multimodality"  title="multimodality">multimodality</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:19:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22238_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>linguistics</category><category>communication</category><category>discourse</category><category>multimodality</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Postmodern Adventure: science, technology, and cultural studies at the Third Millennium]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Massive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnology are heralding the transformation from the modern to the postmodern age. We are confronted with altered modes of work, communication, and entertainment; new postindustrial and political networks; novel approaches to warfare; genetic engineering; and even cloning. This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner&#39;s two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture. They use the best of modern and postmodern perspectives to illuminate contemporary life and to strive for a just and viable future.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/postmodernism"  title="postmodernism">postmodernism</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:51:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_18621_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>postmodernism</category><category>communication</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Digital Culture]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Reading 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&#39;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. 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/knowledge"  title="knowledge">knowledge</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:45:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22219_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>communication</category><category>knowledge</category><category>meaning</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:42:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_1102_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>communication</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Society of Mind]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, the brain, theories of mind and memory, of space and meaning, perception, context and ambiguities, framing, expression, mental models, etc.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/mind"  title="mind">mind</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/space"  title="space">space</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/cognition"  title="cognition">cognition</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/memory"  title="memory">memory</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:58:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11546_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>mind</category><category>space</category><category>communication</category><category>cognition</category><category>memory</category><category>meaning</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Theory of Semiotics]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[An excellent overview of the field of semiotics, its definitions, its areas of focus, its limits, etc. Useful for any student of semiotics. I&#39;m looking forward to this one.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiology"  title="semiology">semiology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semantics"  title="semantics">semantics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:38:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11541_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>semiotics</category><category>communication</category><category>semiology</category><category>semantics</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Semantics]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Semantics presented in the light of linguistics, communication and concept-manipulation. To what extent can the study of language be used to contribute to the study of meaning? An interesting general, but quite extensive, overview of semantics. A good place to start for the beginner.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semantics"  title="semantics">semantics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:31:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11539_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>communication</category><category>meaning</category><category>semantics</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin and Lotman]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A very interesting comparative study of the key theoretical interests of Bakhtin and Lotman based on a PhD Thesis. Plenty of food for thought and an extensive bibliography for Lotman scholars.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/cognition"  title="cognition">cognition</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/structuralism"  title="structuralism">structuralism</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/cybernetics"  title="cybernetics">cybernetics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/poetics"  title="poetics">poetics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/moscow-tartu"  title="moscow-tartu">moscow-tartu</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:28:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11538_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>linguistics</category><category>semiotics</category><category>communication</category><category>cognition</category><category>structuralism</category><category>cybernetics</category><category>poetics</category><category>moscow-tartu</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[An exploration of multimodality in our &#39;highly mediated&#39; world. A foundational theory of how meaning is made in &#39;this period of increasing semiotic fragmentation and cross-over&#39;. A new theory of communication for the era of interactive multimedia.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/discourse"  title="discourse">discourse</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/multimodality"  title="multimodality">multimodality</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:10:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11534_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>semiotics</category><category>communication</category><category>discourse</category><category>multimodality</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Semiotics]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A kind of &#39;put it all in one bag&#39; textbook of semiotics covering communication, culture, sociality, media texts, spatial and temporal dimensions of texts and signs.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/space"  title="space">space</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/time"  title="time">time</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/modality"  title="modality">modality</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:07:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11533_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>space</category><category>time</category><category>semiotics</category><category>communication</category><category>modality</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing Bakhtin]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A helpful introduction to the key concepts of Bakhtin in an easy-to-read format. Brief overview with supporting examples of concepts like: heteroglossia, dialogism, polyphony, carnival and the chronotope. The introduction also provides a good, general overview of Bakhtin and Bakhtinian studies, including a review of authorial controversies concerning his work.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/literary"  title="literary">literary</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/theory"  title="theory">theory</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/discourse"  title="discourse">discourse</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/dialogism"  title="dialogism">dialogism</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/chronotope"  title="chronotope">chronotope</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:00:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11531_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>literary</category><category>theory</category><category>communication</category><category>discourse</category><category>dialogism</category><category>chronotope</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elements of Semiology]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[An analysis of de Saussure&#39;s science of signs (semiology) and a nice introduction to semiotics as it stood in the early to mid-1960s in the European tradition. An easily readable slim volume of approximately 100 pages.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiology"  title="semiology">semiology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/discourse"  title="discourse">discourse</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:58:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11530_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>semiotics</category><category>communication</category><category>semiology</category><category>discourse</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Course in General Linguistics]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[De Saussures seminal work on linguistics (and his embryonic notion of semiotics - his term, semiology). Put together from the lecture notes of his students after his death. This is a surprisingly readable book&#33; Very interesting and especially so for Lotman scholars... easy now to see where those later ideas on culture came from. 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiology"  title="semiology">semiology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/discourse"  title="discourse">discourse</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:55:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11529_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>semiotics</category><category>communication</category><category>semiology</category><category>discourse</category></item></channel></rss>
