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Building Communication Theory from Cybersemiotics: Towards a Transdisciplinary Integration of Sign-Systemic Research Domains

Building Communication Theory from Cybersemiotics: Towards a Transdisciplinary Integration of Sign-Systemic Research Domains

Panel:
[PA] Communicology: Reality Convergence of Semiology and Phenomenology (Richard L. Lanigan, Jacqueline Martinez)
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Speaker:
Carlos Vidales
University of Guadalajara
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After Thomas Sebeok’s global semiotics proposal in the 1970s, an attempt was made to move beyond anthroposemiotics to zoosemiotics and phytosemiotics under the umbrella of all-encompassing biosemiotics. Subsequently, semiotics became a candidate for a transdisciplinary base of science and humanities. However, the efforts of semioticians to explain the nature of living systems from the standpoint of sign-production/reproduction have demonstrated that a systemic, biological, cybernetic, and informational approach was needed for explaining the meaning-making process inside organisms. The integrative visions revealed similarities among various perspectives and complementarities among investigative domains. Accordingly, these variations identified at the very bottom of each approach resulted in a complex task of theoretical integration. In uncovering these commonalities, I will place my focus on communication processes that associate cybernetics with semiotics in a unified discipline of cybersemiotics while considering some aspects of biosemiotics, first and second-order cybernetics, Charles S. Peirce’s pragmaticist semiotics, and information theory. This paper aims to overcome the problem of defining the limits and boundaries of communication studies as an academic discipline by including physical, biological, and social phenomena into the research domains of cybersemiotics, a transdisciplinary theory of communication, signification, information, and cognition proposed by Søren Brier some decades ago.

Location:
3.110 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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September
9:30
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10:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
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Opening Ceremony

September 2, 2024
Congress events
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
10:30
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11:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
From Signs of Language to Semioses of Life: Paradigms and Turns in Global Semiotics

September 2, 2024
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
11:30
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12:15
Location:
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
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Coffee break [catering]

September 2, 2024
Catering
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
Carlos Vidales