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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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Sign Systems StudiesIn this article I develop sociologist George Ritzer’s concept ‘simulated animal’ by focusing on rational systems, enchantment, and nonhuman animal corporeality and behaviour.
Andrew Mark Creighton
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Neurofilmology: Semiotics, cognitivism, audiovisual experience
, 2023 This chapter presents the main lines of neurofilmology, a theory regarding the viewer’s experience when engaging with audiovisual media. Neurofilmology constructs a model of the viewer’s experience articulated into four levels of interpretative ...
Eugeni, R.
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
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Re-thinking the place of semiotics in psychology and its implications for psychological reserch
, 2011 The fields of semiotics and psychology overlap to such an extent that it seems impossible for either to flourish alone. Yet their relationship has been one largely of mutual neglect or hostility.
Petocz, Agnes (R8389)
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Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
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The semiotics of user interfaces - a socio-pragmatic perspective
, 2003 Within the IS research field, there are many views on how to understand the use of IT systems. Within the community of organisational semiotics, Stamper’s semiotic framework has been used as a tool to understand information systems at different ...
Sjöström, Jonas,, Goldkuhl, Göran,
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, 2016 This entry outlines some of the ways semiotics is defined and considers some of the narratives into which semiotics has been fitted, even within communication theory. It discusses the domain of semiotics, the constitution of the sign, the ideas of ‘code’
Cobley, P.
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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