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Identities in Non-places : The Geosemiotics of Computer-mediated Learning Environments in Second Life

Textus, 2009
The diffusion of virtual computer-mediated settings and the development of Web 2.0 environments have enormously increased the importance of non-material places, that is to say virtual ‘non-spaces’ where social identities are constantly re-semiotized thanks to the multisemiotic potentialities afforded by the electronic settings. The case of Second Life (
BORTOLUZZI, Maria, TREVISAN PIERGIORGIO
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The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon's Chinatown [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This article examines the semiotic landscape of the Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea. Using the geosemiotic framework as a heuristic guide, we analyze how the spectacle of Chinatown is constituted through spatial, linguistic, semiotic, and material ...
Jerry Lee, Jackie Jia Lou
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Sharing space or meaning? A geosemiotic perspective on shared space design

Applied Mobilities, 2017
If urban design aims to influence sociality in public urban space, a nuanced understanding of the dialectic relationship of the social and the spatial matters.
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Young children’s literacy in the activity space of the library: A geosemiotic investigation

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
An ecological approach, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple contexts for learning, underpins this study of libraries as activity spaces for young children’s literacy participation. Five libraries serving a diversity of communities were the subject of ethnographic investigation incorporating participant observation, visual ...
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Geosemiotics

2014
The term 'geosemiotics' combines the elements of geography, the study of places, with semiotics, the study of sign systems. The term was created by Ron and Suzi Scollon to describe their approach to studying 'discourses in place' (Scollon & Scollon, 2003, p. 1).
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