It is only since global media and digital communications became accessible to ordinary
populations–with Telstar, jumbo jets, the pc and mobile devices–that humans have been …

In his studies of culture, Juri Lotman implicitly expressed several ideas that have been
rendered explicit by the contemporary mediasphere. The aim of the current article is to …

Much writing on, first, analogue and, later, digital archives has focused on related power-
dynamics and the structuring effects of archives and their technologies on discursive …

This article first builds on the semiotics of culture approach and argues that the increasingly
widespread transmedia practices may be valuable for contributing to the dynamics of how …

For the past three years, the Transmedia Research Group at the Department of Semiotics,
University of Tartu, has been developing open access online materials for supporting the …

The goal of these studies was to evaluate acute changes in protein metabolism in skeletal
muscle in response to contractile activity. Rates of protein synthesis were measured by …

In order to estimate the current situation of teaching materials available in the field of
semiotics, we are providing a comparative overview and a worldwide bibliography of …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the behaviour of self-
perforating dowels made of high-strength steel in CLT. The strength and stiffness of the …

In this article, we advocate for media studies to adopt a systematic evolutionary-complexity
model, in order to link the study of human culture and knowledge practices to the biosphere …

Our mission statement for this chapter is to discuss the relevance of Lotmanian cultural
semiotics for media studies. This is a challenging endeavour for two reasons. Firstly, the …