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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social media platforms today have become essential for consumer‐brand interactions, with visual content playing a pivotal role in shaping engagement and brand perception. Although text‐based user‐generated content (UGC) has been widely studied, the potential of visual UGC, particularly in the travel, tourism and hospitality (TTH) sector ...
Chinchu Abraham +2 more
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All Quiet on the Luxury Front: How and When Sustainability Labels Influence Purchase Behavior
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As luxury brands launch sustainability initiatives and products, they face significant challenges, including the need to effectively communicate their practices to consumers. The current research draws on semiotics theory to explore how and when distinct types of sustainability labels, indexical and iconic, enhance brand authenticity ...
Shelly Rathee +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms are experiencing mounting pressure to report their environmental impact. Rather than disclosing their actual performance, however, some are engaging in unethical business (i.e., greenwashing) practices. Prior studies have contributed significantly to the greenwashing literature from varied perspectives, but a comprehensive understanding ...
Sher Jahan Khan +4 more
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Interpreting Estonian mires: common perceptions and changing practices
Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2015 Over the centuries mires have been considered to be mostly useless, even dangerous places. Adopting a landscape semiotic perspective the article delineates the current common perceptions of Estonian mires based upon 767 questionnaires.
Piret Pungas-Kohv +5 more
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Quiet activism as feminist practice
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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, 2017 In Anna Maria Lorusso’s book Cultural semiotics: For a cultural perspective in semiotics (Lorusso, 2015) the reader is offered an initiated review of key representatives of 20th century structuralism in semiotics and its entries into poststructuralism ...
Lenninger, Sara M.
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Semiotics of Hairstyles and Its Communicative Role in Contemporary Everyday Culture [PDF]
, 2018 In this article, the hairstyle is viewed as text that contains information on the basic cultural traits, fashion preferences and emotional and psychological states of the people living in a concrete historical period.
Svetlichnaya, I. V., Svetlichnaya, I V
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General introduction to the project “Open semiotics”
Семиотические исследования, 2023 This article is a Russian translation of the General introduction to the four-volume project “Open Semiotics”, published in 2023 under the editorship of Amir Biglari in the L'Harmattan publishing house. The original imprint – Biglari, A.
Amir Biglari
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
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