[ecrea] Cfp - Semiotics of the Web

*Call for papers
**/Semiotics of the Web
/Special issue of /Punctum
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The inaugural special issue on the ‘Semiotics of the Web’ is intended to 
connect the launch of the international semiotics journal/Punctum/ with 
the most epoch-making and challenging recent development in the space of 
semiosis. In the past two decades the growth of the Web has vastly 
expanded the boundaries and complexity of the semiosphere, fostering, at 
the same time, its radical restructuring. Amongst the wealth of 
cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary responses these developments 
have provoked semiotics has been largely absent. Although regularly 
employed in more instrumentally oriented tasks, like webpage design and 
e-marketing, semiotic theory and research had failed to address the 
manifold issues raised by this whole new continent of signs and 
meaning-making processes in any sustained and systematic fashion.

Underscoring the need to recast the priorities of current semiotic 
research, the special issue on the ‘Semiotics of the Web’ aspires to 
contribute to the advancement of the semiotic study of communication 
processes and practices on the Web by inviting papers which engage in 
the analytical and critical investigation of the diverse Web 
environments, cultures and applications focusing on topics such as: 
graphic user interfaces, website design, digital symbol and sign 
systems, codes and textualities, digital literacies, epistemologies and 
ontologies, social networks, multiplayer games, online communication, 
identities and interaction.

Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 300 words 
by mail to Gregory Paschalidis_ ((paschagr /at/ jour.auth)._gr), including 
affiliation and contact information. Acceptance of the abstract does not 
guarantee publication, given that all full research articles go through 
the journal’s peer review process*.

Timel*ine
Deadline for abstract*s: January 15, 2*015
Notification of acceptance of the abstrac*t: January 30, 2*015
Deadline for submission of full article*s: April 30, 2*015
Final revised articles du*e: June 30, 2*015
Publication: Volume 1, Number 1 (July 2015)

Journal’s websi_te: http://punctum.gr/_