19th
December
1999
“Pictorial semiotics, we shall take it, is that part of the science of signification which is particularly concerned to understand the nature and specificity of such meanings (or vehicles of meaning) which are colloquially identified by the term ‘picture.’ Thus, the assignments of such a speciality must involve, at the very least, a demonstration of the semiotic character of pictures, as well as a study of the peculiarities which differentiate pictorial meanings from other kinds of signification, and a assessment of the ways (from some or other point of view) in which pictorial meanings are apt to differ from each other while still remaining pictorial in kind.”
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19th
December
1999
A listing of international media literacy and technology organizations, part of the Media Literacy Online Project, University of Oregon.
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19th
December
1999
“ICA’s mission is to bring together university scholars and other professionals around the world to share research and discuss important issues pertaining to human communication. The association’s around 3400 members’ participants in seventeen divisions and interest groups that explore diverse areas of inquiry and practice. These include interpersonal, mass, organizational, and international communication, often supported with information technologies, and focused on a plethora of important social topics such as education, gender, health, language, law, politics, and popular culture. Members approach the study of human communication from a variety of social scientific, humanistic, and philosophical perspectives using diverse theoretical, methodological, and political orientations.”
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19th
December
1999
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19th
December
1999
“Pictorial semiotics, we shall take it, is that part of the science of signification which is particularly concerned to understand the nature and specificity of such meanings (or vehicles of meaning) which are colloquially identified by the term “picture”. Thus, the assignments of such a speciality must involve, at the very least, a demonstration of the semiotic character of pictures, as well as a study of the peculiarities which differentiate pictorial meanings from other kinds of signification, and a assessment of the ways (from some or other point of view) in which pictorial meanings are apt to differ from each other while still remaining pictorial in kind.”
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