On Cultural Forms: The sensemaking and expression of cybersemiotics
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This study contributes to the understanding of cultural forms, inspired by Cassirer’s notion of a general function manifesting in the many particular expressions of human culture. The special case of cybersemiotics (a newly established scientific discipline) is studied as a social system to make sense of how it operates as a viable cultural form. The study uses citation network analysis to map out the boundaries and communications of the cybersemiotic discipline, and then delves into its contents to qualitatively investigate selected parts of the network structure. A framework for studying and comparing cultural forms is developed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 62
Keywords [en]
cultural forms, transdisciplinarity, pragmaticism, cybersemiotics, case study, consonance management, mixed methods, Ernst Cassirer, C.S. Peirce, Søren Brier
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-115079OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-115079DiVA, id: diva2:1679742
Subject / course
Sociologi
Educational program
Sociology Master Programme, 120 credits
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-09-072022-07-012022-09-07Bibliographically approved