Semiotics of On-line Communications

By Borislav Gueorguiev (NBU)

17th Early-Fall School in Semiotics

Sozopol, September, 6th, 2011

The Great Battle

Profiles of FB & G+ Users

IBM vs. Mac(cf. the analysis of Jean-Marie Floch)

How Do They Look?

Crystal, D. Language and the Internet, Cambridge

UP, 2004

Media vs. Massmedia

George Tsonev’s (Plovdiv University) idea, furthered by me.

1. One person to one person by tools – media;

2. One person to people/communities by tools – media;

3. Institution to people/communities/nation(s) by tools – massmedia.

Very Personal/Non-anonymous (media):

Non-Anonymous/Anonymous

(media)

Chat by writing Chat by speaking Video chat Group chat Options to call GSM

or another type of phone

Skype 5.5. is integrated with the FB chat.

Semi-Official (media)

Chat/Messages in the social networks.

Email (lately named as ‘conversation’ – because of the the exchange of email messages).

Official – documents with e-signature.

Anonymous in general Forums (massmedia)

Anonymous in general (media)

Websites for different kinds of dating, esp. for persons who seek sex (proto social networks).

Non-Anonymous

Blogs & Personal Websites (media) Websites of institutions

(massmedia) Social Networks (massmedia)

Roman Jakobson’s model of

communication

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