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..	Tools for Cultural Studies M. Marti Friday 14.15-15.45 - Autumn Term 2011 course programme
....	Recommended links: Introduction to semiotics: general introduction to semiotics and communication theory: communication models - signs - denotation, connotation, myth - paradigms, rules, codes - narratives - representation and stereotypes - on-line glossaries and dictionaries - links pages Applied semiotics: mass media: news - advertising - TV and film - internet visual arts (painting, photography) - design and fashion - architecture and proxemics music - food - sport Nuclear semiotics (to Pandora's Box) in the classroom (teaching units): gender and stereotypes (in news, adv ertisements etc.) course programme (provisional)
....	Recommended links general introductions to semiotics and communication theory Dillman, Richard W. On-line Tutorial to Communication Theory [http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/tutor0.html] A very helpful on-line course, with good study questions and answers. As an introduction to Semiotics read the chapter: Signs and Language Chandler, David. Semiotics for Beginners. [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html] (Sept. 2002) The "classic" internet introduction to semiotics. Streeter, Thomas. Semiotics of the Media [http://www.uvm.edu/%7Etstreete/semiotics_and_ads/contents.html] (Sept. 2002) Despite its title first of all a brief but very good general introduction with good examples (e.g. "how ads work"). Hammerstingl, Werner. The Basics of Semiotics [http://www.olinda.com/VC/lectures/Semiotics/semiotics.htm] (Oct. 05) A short summary of the main concepts. Radio Open Learning. Sign, Signifier, Signified [http://www.abc.net.au/comms/lines/programs/prog05.htm] (Sept. 2002) Transscript of an Australian radio programme: Introduction to semiotics, based on the Silk Cut advertisement (from David Lodge's Nice Work). Gorny, Eugene. What is Semiotics? [http://www.zhurnal.ru/staff/gorny/english/semiotic.htm] (Sept. 2002) Gorny, Eugene. Art as a Catalyst of Spiritual Experience [http://www.zhurnal.ru/staff/gorny/english/catalist.htm] (Sept. 2002) Both papers give a short introduction to semiotics and the notion of "text". Nonverbal Communication Theories. [http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/comm321/gwalker/nonverbal.htm] short overview TOP communication models Dillman, On-line Tutorial: The Communication Process [http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/ComProcess/ComProc1.html] (Sept. 2002) The Shannon/Weaver model. Interaction and Relationships [http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Relation/relate1.html] (Sept. 2002) Speech Act Theory [http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Relation/relate2.html] (Sept. 2002) Mass Communication [http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Media/media1.html] (Sept. 2002) Friedemann Schulz von Thun: Die vier Seiten einer Nachricht Werner Stangl, Arbeitsblätter [http://www.stangl-taller.at/ARBEITSBLAETTER/KOMMUNIKATION/Komm4Seiten.shtml] Das Nachrichtenquadrat Karl Bühler: Das Organon-Modell Werner Stangl, Arbeitsblätter [http://www.stangl-taller.at/ARBEITSBLAETTER/KOMMUNIKATION/buehlermodell.shtml] TOP signs The sign [http://www.uvm.edu/%7Etstreete/semiotics_and_ads/the_sign.html] (Sept. 2002) Introduction to the Saussurian sign. Klages, Maria Saussure [http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/saussure.html] (Sept. 2002) Introduction to the Saussure. Dillman, On-line Tutorial: Signs and Language [http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Semiotics/sem1.html] (Sept. 2002) Introduction to the Peirceian sign. Icon, index, symbol. Semiotic triangle. Semiotic Triangle / 3 types of signs [http://web.mst.edu/~gdoty/classes/concepts-practices/sign-gifs.html#triangle] (Sept. 2002) Diagrams (Peirce) Definitions of Signs [http://web.mst.edu/~gdoty//classes/concepts-practices/def-signs.html] (Sept. 2002) Peirce Chandler, David. Semiotics for Beginners: Signs [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html] (Sept. 2008) Introduction to the Saussurian and Peircean sign; Icon, index, symbol. Semiotic Triangle. Links to Peirce and Saussure [http://filserver.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/semiotics/semiolinks3.html#Cultural Heroes] (Sept. 2008) de Saussure, Ferdinand. Third Course of Lectures on General Linguistics [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/saussure.htm] Source: Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linguistics (1910-1911) publ. Pergamon Press, 1993. Reproduced here are the first few and last few pages of what are notes taken by a student of Saussure's lectures. Barthes, Roland. Elements of Semiology. [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/barthes.htm] Source: Elements of Semiology, 1964, publ. Hill and Wang, 1968. The first half of the book is reproduced here. Jakobson, Roman. Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ru/jakobson.htm] Source: Lectures on Sound & Meaning, publ. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 1937, Preface by Clause Lévi-Strauss. Most of first and all of last lectures reproduced here. TOP denotation, connotation, myth Gorny, Eugene. What is Semiotics? [http://www.zhurnal.ru/staff/gorny/english/semiotic.htm] (Sept. 2002) Gorny, Eugene. Art as a Catalyst of Spiritual Experience [http://www.zhurnal.ru/staff/gorny/english/catalist.htm] (Sept. 2002) Both papers give a short introduction to semiotics and the notion of "text". Chandler, David. Semiotics for Beginners: Denotation, Connotation, Myth [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem06.html] (Sept. 2002) Examples from Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image and the Paris Match example from Mythologies. TOP paradigms, rules, codes Dillman, On-line Tutorial: Paradigms, Rules, Codes. [http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Information/info2.html] (Sept. 2002) Chandler, David. Semiotics for Beginners: Codes [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem08.html] (Sept. 2002) social, textual, interpretative codes; textual codes, visual codes... TOP narratives Narrative. An introduction to Narrative for A-level Students [http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/narrative.html] some key concepts Chandler, David. Semiotics for Beginners: Syntagmatic Analysis [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem04.html] on narratives Streeter, Thomas. Semiotics and ads (narrative, code) [http://www.uvm.edu/%7Etstreete/semiotics_and_ads/syntagms.html] narrative aspects of advertisements Pradl, Gordon. Narratology: The Study of Story Structure [http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-921/story.htm] A short digest. Narratology. [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/textan05.html] Links to different articles. Text semiotics [http://www.text-semiotics.org/english3.html] Links to different articles. TOP
..	representation and stereotypes Nancy S. Sullivan, ed. Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. [http://www.ricw.ri.gov/publications/GEH/geh.htm] Lesson plans (Mathematics, Social Studies, Language, Cultural Studies etc.) for Grades 1-3, 4-6, 6-9, 9-12, 12-16 Hall, Stuart. Representation and the media. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/554328.stm] (PDF-file) A lecture, criticizing the standard view of representation as "accurate" or "distorted" age Media representation of Age. [http://www.mediaknowall.com/Age.html] Tupper, Meredith. The Representation of Elderly Persons in Prime Time Television Advertising. [http://www.geocities.com/lightgrrrrrl/] class Özüm, Aytül. The Representation of the Working Class and Masculinity and Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [http://members.tripod.com/~warlight/AYTUL.html] ethnicity / race Popular Culture - Race and ethnicity issues. [http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/race.html] Excellent links to websites, on-line articles, bibliography. Viewing Race. [http://www.cahro.org/html/viewing_race.html] a comprehensive resource for organizations involved in programs on race by National Video Resources (NVR) Race in the American Media [http://www.mediaknowall.com/race.html] Crouch, Stanley. Stop whining about the media! [http://archive.salon.com/news/col/crouch/2000/04/19/images/index.html] On TV shows, commercials and the news, black people are doctors, lawyers and gangbangers - like in real life A memo from MANAA to Hollywood: Asian Stereotypes Restrictive Portrayals of Asians in the Media and How to Balance Them [http://www.manaa.org/articles/stereoBust.htm] (Oct. 05) A memo demanding some action from Hollywood producers who keep resorting to stock Asian characters BBC: TV failing ethnic minorities. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/554328.stm] Asian families in British soaps Donald, Ralph R. Savages, Swine and Buffoons. [http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue08/features/wwii/default-yes.htm] Hollywood's Selective Stereotypical Representations of Japanese, Germans, and Italians in Films Produced during World War II gender / sex Gay/Lesbian Media Studies [http://www.geocities.com/briandy_au/frames.html] Articles and links. Funk, Brian. Gay representation on Fiction and Non-Fiction TV programs [http://www.geocities.com/briandy_au/gaytv.html] religion Matthews, Zachariah. How Muslims are Negatively Stereotyped [http://www.famsy.com/salam/Ozstereo81.htm] (Oct. 05) Representations of Muslims in Australia. this site is no longer available - see http://jimball.com.au/Features/The-Muslim-Brotherhood-in-Australia.htm (Sept. 08) Harvard University, The Pluralism Project: Struggling Against Stereotypes [http://www.pluralism.org/ocg/CDROM_files/islam/struggling.php] (Oct. 05) The negative image of Islam in the Amercan Media TOP
.	semiotics: glossaries and dictionaries Chandler, David. Glossary of Key Terms [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem-gloss.html] (Sept. 2002) Glossary of semiotic terms Streeter, Thomas. Semiotic Terminology. [http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/semiotics_and_ads/terminology.html] Glossary of semiotic terms Belton, Robert. Words of Art [http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/glossary.html] Probably the best on-line dictionary for terms and concepts in modern theory. (not finished yet) Givens, David B. The Non-verbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues [http://center-for-nonverbal-studies.org/6101.html] (Sept. 09) TOP semiotics: links pages Semiotics Links [http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/semiotics.html] (Sept. 2002) Links to semiotic sites. Michelucci, Pascal. Sites of Significance for Semiotics [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/EngSem1.html] Links to semiotic sites. Sonesson, Gören. Semiolinks [http://filserver.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/semiotics/semiolinks1.html] (Sept. 2008) Links to semiotic sites. The Media and Communication Studies Site [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html] (Sept. 2002) David Chandler's links to articles and essays on Media Education, TV & Radio, Film Studies, Textual Analysis, Pop Music, Visual Image, Advertising etc. Zupko, Sarah. Cultural Studies Central. (PopCultures.com) [http://www.popcultures.com/] Main site for links to articles etc. in cultural studies, but unfortunately it seems not to work any longer (Jan. 06) Try: http://web.archive.org/www.popcultures.com/ Semiotics Quiz [http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/semiotics_and_ads/hrly2eg.html] Well? TOP
.	semiotics applied in different fields mass media The Media and Communication Studies Site [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/index.html] (Sept. 08) David Chandler's links to articles and essays on Media Education, TV & Radio, Film Studies, Textual Analysis, Pop Music, Visual Image, Advertising etc. McNeill, Tony. Barthes' Mythologies. [http://seacoast.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/myth.htm] (Sept. 2008) Three lectures on Barthes' Mythologies: Mass Culture and Myth Chandler, David. Media Representation [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/represent.html] Modality and Representation [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02a.html] aspects of "reality" Zupko, Sarah. Cultural Studies Central. Mass Media and Jounalism [http://www.popcultures.com/articles/media.htm] Links to articles on mass media / but unfortunately it seems not to work any longer (Jan. 06) Try: http://web.archive.org/www.popcultures.com/ . TOP news Radio Open Learning :News [http://www.abc.net.au/comms/lines/programs/prog09.htm] (Sept. 2002) Transscript of an Australian radio programme: News and theories of narrative, myth, and story-telling Chandler, David. Notes on the Construction of Reality in TV-News programmes. [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/TF33120/news.html] On "objectivity", camera work, genre, narrative etc. Gambles, Helen (1998): A semiotic Analysis of a Newspaper Story. [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/hlg9501.html] Example of a semiotic analysis (student paper) Debatin, Bernhard. Semiotics of Terror [http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~debatin/AEJMC/3.html] 11th September 2001 TOP advertising Communication Studies: Advertising [http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecommstud/resources/advertising.html] Resources Semiotics of the Media [http://www.uvm.edu/%7Etstreete/semiotics_and_ads/contents.html] Good introduction to semiotics of advertisement. Examples (student papers) of semiotic analysis. Streeter, Thomas. Semiotics and ads (narrative, code) [http://www.uvm.edu/%7Etstreete/semiotics_and_ads/syntagms.html] narrative aspects of advertisements Streeter, Thomas. This is not Sex [http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/powerpose/] A web essay on the male gaze, fashion advertising and the pose. Radio Open Learning : Advertising [http://www.abc.net.au/comms/lines/programs/prog10.htm] (Sept. 2002) Transscript of an Australian radio programme: advertising strategies, ethics. Harris, Alan C. Sell! Buy! Semiolingustic manipulation in print advertising [http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005/advertis.html] (Sept. 2002) Advertising may be viewed as the construction of semiotic worlds for the rhetorical purpose of swaying purchasers to buy what is advertised. The author conducts a linguistic and communicational semiotic analysis of this type of manipulation. Several exemplary print advertisements are reviewed and instances of linguistic manipulation are identified, categorized, and explained. The Media and Communication Studies Site [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/sections/advert.html] (Sept. 08) Links to Advertising Moriarty, Sandra. Visual Semiotics and the Production of Meaning in Advertising [http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Emoriarts/vissemiotics.html] (Sept. 2002) How is meaning produced and conveyed in messages that are primarily visual? Zupko, Sarah. Cultural Studies Central. Advertising. [http://www.popcultures.com/articles/advertising.htm] Links to articles on advertising / unfortunately it seems not to work any longer (Jan. 06) Try: http://web.archive.org/www.popcultures.com/ Laymens Corner: Understanding Ad Law. [http://www.gopromos.com/Article/Laymens+Corner+Understanding+Ad+Law/7351/Default.aspx] Advertising ethics and legal questions around advertising in the USA. Links to interesting pages about all aspects of advertising. The Marlboro Man [http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v1n4/marlboro.html] Berger, A. A. A Primer on Analyzing Television Commercials (html-Version of: [www.ccsf.edu/Departments/Transitional_Studies/projects/analyzingtv.pdf] excerpted from: The Manufacture of Desire: Alcohol Commercials and Society: 7 aspects to consider when analysing advertisements. Brown, Matthew A. A Comparison Between Adult and Children's Advertising on Television [http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/acad/brown.html] The researcher used a structural analysis to look at twenty television commercials; ten aimed at each group. Colson, Christopher: Gender Stereotypes and Advertisements. lesson plan: Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. Grades 3-6 [http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/86.htm] TOP TV and film studies Chandler, David. The 'Grammar' of Television and Film [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html] (Sept. 2002) camera and editing techniques: angles, shots etc. Worth, Sol. Studying Visual Communication (1981) [http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/wava/worth/svscom.html ] (Oct. 05) The whole book on-line: Semiotics of Film and TV, Uses in education. The Media and Communication Film Studies Site [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/film05.html] Links to film studies; articles, papers, links, recommended books etc. (allow pop-ups!) Taflinger, Richard F. Sitcom: What it is, how it works [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitcom.html] (Sept. 2002) Neo-Aristotelian analysis of the TV sitcom since 1947 and a listing of all the sitcoms that have been on American primetime TV since 1947 . Butler, Jeremy. several articles [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/jbutler/Research.htm] (Sept. 2002) view with Acrobat Reader. Zupko, Sarah. Cultural Studies Central. Television [http://www.popcultures.com/articles/tv.htm] Links to articles on film studies. unfortunately it seems not to work any longer (Jan. 06) Try: http://web.archive.org/www.popcultures.com/ PopMatters: [http://www.popmatters.com/] (Jan 06) Sarah Zupko's journal with large archive of articles and reviews on muisc, film, TV Zupko, Sarah. Cultural Studies Central. Film [http://www.popcultures.com/articles/film.htm] Links to articles on film studies. unfortunately it seems not to work any longer (Jan. 06) Try: http://web.archive.org/www.popcultures.com/ A memo from MANAA to Hollywood: Asian Stereotypes Restrictive Portrayals of Asians in the Media and How to Balance Them [http://www.manaa.org/articles/stereoBust.htm] (Oct. 05) A memo demanding some action from Hollywood producers who keep resorting to stock Asian characters TOP Internet Umberto Eco discusses the Internet: A Conversation on information [http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/eco/eco.html] A conversation with Patrick Coppock for Multimedia World Codognet, Philippe. The Semiotics of the Web. [p://pauillac.inria.fr/~codognet/web.html] ... a semiotic analysis of computer-based communication, and especially human-to-human communication through an electronic medium. Semiotics is a very interesting and powerful tool in order to rephrase information theory and computer science and shed a new light on this global phenomenon... Woodrow, Ross. Iconography and the Internet [http://www.unites.uqam.ca/AHWA/Meetings/2000.CIHA/Woodrow.html] TOP
.	visual arts (images: photography, painting) Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida:: Allen, Graham. Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography / La Chambre claire: note sur la photographie. Literary Encyclopedia [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10352] a student's essay Dorfman, Elsa: Camera Lucida (review) [http://elsa.photo.net/barthes.htm] Originally published in The Journal of Photography in New England, Volume 3 Number 3 Dillon , George L. Art and the Semiotics of Images [http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/rhethtml/signifiers/sigsave.html] (Sept. 2002) How language-like are images? How do images and words work when they are both present? How do scenes of people gazing and posing convey visual meaning? Moriarty, Sandra. Visual Semiotics and the Production of Meaning in Advertising [http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Emoriarts/vissemiotics.html] (Sept. 2002) How is meaning produced and conveyed in messages that are primarily visual? Sonesson, Göran. Mute Narratives [http://filserver.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/mute_narratives.html] (Sept. 2008) Narrativity and pictures. Sonesson, Göran. Pictorial Semiotics [http://filserver.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/pict_sem_1.html] (Sept. 2008) The state of the art at the beginning of the nineties; photography as index and icon Woodrow, Ross. Analysis of images [http://www.newcastle.edu.au/discipline/fine-art/theory/analysis/an-intro.htm] Material for a Bachelor of Fine Art course. introduction to semiotic approaches, e.g.: Alberti's Window - What is a picture?, links, examples (student papers) of analysis. 2009: unfortunately no longer available. Try the web archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php and enter the URL Nöth, Winfred. Can Pictures Lie? [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/srb/pictures.html] (Sept. 2002) The question of truth or lie in pictures has a semantic, a syntactic, and a pragmatic aspect. Chandler, David. Notes on the Gaze [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze.html] (Sept. 2002) Gaze: the way in which viewers look at images of people in any visual medium and the gaze of people depicted in visual texts Kostrup, Sören. The Semiotics of visual communication [http://imv.au.dk/semiotics/modul_3/sctn_1.htm] differences between linguistic and non-verbal signs Carter, Paul. A Semiotic Analysis of Newspaper Front-Page Photographs [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/pmc9601.html] (Sept. 2002) Example of analysis (student's essay). Leggatt, A History of Photography [http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/] (Sept. 2002) A history of photography from its beginnings till 1920. Ruby, Jay. In a Pic's Eye: Interpetive Strategies for Deriving Significance and Meaning from Photographs Afterimage, March 1976. [http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/ruby/picseye.html] (Sept. 2008) Why do anthropologists take photographs? Burnett, Ron Barthes and Photography [http://www.ecuad.ca/~rburnett/Barthes.htm] (Sept. 2002) short notes to some concepts Mayo, Lisa A. Sources of Error in the Interpretation of a Photograph [http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/acad/mayo.html] (sept. 08) How does one account for the variety of responses? And within this assortment, is one person's view superior to another's? Lester, Paul Martin. Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication. [http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/viscomtheory.html] Some portions published in Visual Communication Images with Messages, (1995) Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Chapter 17 Zupko, Sarah. Cultural Studies Central. visual arts. [http://www.popcultures.com/articles/visualarts.htm] Links to articles on visual arts. unfortunately it seems not to work any longer (Jan. 06) Try: http://web.archive.org/www.popcultures.com/ Deborah Hutton (ed.) Women, the Visual Arts and Islam. [http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/arthistory/ah369/index.html] / no longer avaible (Sept. 08) TOP design and fashion van Onck, Andries. Design and Semiotics [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/4217/theory.html#design as semiosis] (Sept. 2002) design theory, design as semiotic process. Routio, Pentti. Semiotics of Artefacts [http://www.uiah.fi/projects/metodi/157.htm] The artefact as a medium of signs Links about Clothes, Fashion and Meaning, Communication in Context BA2 Design Studies 2001-2002 Department of Design, Nottingham Trent University [http://ess.ntu.ac.uk/miller/dstuds/clothes.htm] (Jan. 1004) Finkelstein, Joanne. Chic Theory. (Article in Australian Humanities Review) [http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-March-1997/finkelstein.html] (Sept. 08), with responses by Ruth Barcan and Jennifer Craik. Flynn, Patricia K. Body Language - The Language of Contemporary Fashion Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute [http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/6/85.06.03.x.html] (Jan. 04) 2 Lesson Plans: 1. Analyze an object of clothing from the 1950's (a pair of Capri pants) and 2. Design an outfit that a teenager would like to wear that reflects one of the functions of clothes: utility, status, and sex; Bibliographies for students and teachers. Sonesson, Göran. Bodily semiotics and the extensions of man in Tarasti, Eero, ed., Center/Periphery in representations and institutions. Proceedings from the 3rd Annual Meeting and Congress of The International Semiotics Insitute, Imatra, Finland, July 16-21, 1990.: International Semiotics Institute, Imatra 1992; ss 185-210 [http://filserver.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/ImatraConfTx1.html] (Jan. 04) Compares the occidental clothing system to the traditional Mesoamerican pattern; semiotics of the body; Matisse's Blue Nude and Charlie Brown. Theories of Fashion By Pauline Weston Thomas [http://www.fashion-era.com/sociology_semiotics.htm] Simple, short overview (good for students), fashion trends 2004 The Costumer's Manifesto. [http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/fashion_theory.htm] Links to fashion theory. Fashion Theory: Infography [http://www.infography.com/content/451706728177.html] Bibliography on Fashion Theory Thorstein Veblen: Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture, ch. 7 of The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899) the social basis of fashion and fashion changes Cullum-Swan, Betsy. Codes, Chronologies and Everyday Objects [http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~sssi/papers/pkm1.txt] (Aug. 04) On the meanings of T-shirts TOP architecture Brown, Alex. Theory of Theory of Architecture [http://www.geocities.com/archinode/theory_of_theory_of_architectu.htm] (Sept. 2008) Routio, Pentti. Semiotics of Artefacts [http://www.uiah.fi/projects/metodi/157.htm] The artefact as a medium of signs Architecture Web Site [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_links.html] Links to architecture. Architecture on the Web [http://www.vitruvio.ch/] Links to architecture. Arias, Ivanna Jimenes. Proxemics in the ESL classroom (Forum, Vol 34 No 1, January - March 1996 ) fixed, semifixed-feature and intimate feature of rooms; sociopetal and sociofugal space Hall, Edward T. The Antropology of Space: An organizing model The Hidden Dimension (1966), ch. 9. [http://bacweb.the-bac.edu/~michael.b.williams/hall9.htm] fixed, semifixed-feature and intimate feature of rooms; sociopetal and sociofugal space Hall, Edward T. Distances in Man The Hidden Dimension (1966), ch. 9. [http://bacweb.the-bac.edu/~michael.b.williams/hall10.htm] proxemics: intimate, personal, social and public distance. Edward T. Hall: Proxemic Theory, 1966. [http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/13] biography and short introduction to proxemics Sommer, Robert. Designed for Drinking (ch.8, Personal Space) [http://bacweb.the-bac.edu/~michael.b.williams/designedfordrinking.html] (Jan. 2003) cultural differences in the architecture and design of drinking places. Williams, Michael B. Readings [http://bacweb.the-bac.edu/~michael.b.williams/readings.html] Links to texts on architecture. TOP
.	music Semiotics of Music [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/ASSA-No4/index.htm] (Sept. 2002) The Journal Applied Semiotics, Issue No 4 contains several articles, e.g.: Tarasti, Eero: The Emancipation of the Sign, On the Corporeal and Gestural Meanings in Music; Hatten, Robert. The Opening Theme of Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio: A Discourse in Semiotic Method; Spitzer, Michael. Meditations on Meyer's Hobby Horses: Levels of Motivation in Musical Signs Monelle, Raymond. Musical uniqueness as a function of the text Pekkilä, Erkki. Connotative Meanings and Advertising Music Björnberg, Alf. Music Video and the Semiotics of Popular Music [http://www.mediamusicstudies.net/tagg/others/bjbgvideo.html] (Aug. 04) Erickson, Gregory. Speaking of Music. Enculturation 1999 [http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_2/erickson.html] Explorations in the Language of Music Criticism. Grey, Philip. Semiotics of Music [http://www.eng.umu.se/culturec/music.htm] (Nov. 04) Main page for a course on the semiotics of music; several aspects (dance, words, myth etc.) tasks. Roe, Keith. Music and identity among European youth. Music as communication. [http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/MIE/Part2_chapter03.html] Part II of: European Music Office, Music in Europe. Brussels, 1996. Edited by Paul Rutten Uschanov, T. P. Not A Second Time. A Study in Rock Semiotics [http://www.helsinki.fi/~tuschano/writings/beatles/] (Sept. 2002) Analysis of rock music (Beatles) can benefit from semiotics. Hawkins, Stan. `I'll Never Be an Angel': Stories of Deception in Madonna's Music Critical Musicology Journal.19997 [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/Articles/1997/01/01.html] (Sept. 2002) In her music, films, and videos, Madonna displays an array of scripts which carry with them a certain ritual significance. Vannini, Philip. Adorno's Legacy: On Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and the Global Political Economy of Britney Spears Inc. [http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/Illumina%20Folder/adornolegacy.htm] A semiotic and discourse analysis of Britney Spears' text PopMatters: [http://www.popmatters.com/] (Jan 06) Sarah Zupko's journal with large archive of articles and reviews on muisc, film, TV Zupko, Sarah. Cultural Studies Central. Music [http://www.popcultures.com/articles/music.htm] Links to articles on Pop, Rock, Punk, Hip Hop etc. unfortunately it seems not to work any longer (Jan. 06) Try: http://web.archive.org/www.popcultures.com/ "Music as Representation of Gender in Mediterranean Culture" [http://www.muspe.unibo.it/period/MA/ma_stg/mrgrc/report4.htm] Report on the meeting "Music as Representation of Gender in Mediterranean Culture" Venice, June 11-13 1998 TOP
	semiotics and sport Barthes, Roland. The World of Wrestling [http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/rbwres.htm] also here: [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/wrestlin.html] "The semiotics of sport" Zeitschrift für Semiotik 1999, 19.4 [http://ling.kgw.tu-berlin.de/semiotik/english/ZFS/Zfs97_4_e.htm#1] Abstracts of articles Grey, Philip: Sport Culture [http://www.eng.umu.se/culturec/SPO.htm] (Nov. 04) short introduction for a course of cultural studies, some terms explained Till, Scott. The Importance of being Tiger Woods. in: Bad Subjects. [http://eserver.org/bs/35/thill.html] consumers can now, with Nike's permission, become the golden child himself TOP
	semiotics and food Barthes, Roland. Chopsticks [http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/rbchop.htm] (Nov. 04) Barthes sees chopsticks as part of a semiotic system, a grammar of Oriental thinking about and dealing with food Grey, Philip. The semiotics of food [http://www.eng.umu.se/culturec/FOO.htm] (Nov. 04) short introduction for a course of cultural studies, some terms explained Friedman, Ted. The World of The World of Coca Cola (originally in: in Communication Research, Vol. 19 No 5, October 1992, pp. 642-662 ) [http://eserver.org/theory/world-of-coca-cola.html] (Nov. 04) Longstreth, Ariane. Food as sign and code. [http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~al703498/semiotics.htm] (Nov. 04) A student's research report.Showalter, Elaine. Food: My Dinner with Derrida. in: American Prospect, 1.1.02 [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=food_my_dinner_with_derrida] (Nov. 04) Food studies as an academic subject? Food studies links page Carnegie Library [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/food/research/foodstudies.html] links to history of food Rooney, Donna and Solomon, Nick. Digesting the metaphor: exploring everyday learning at work [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003605.htm] (Nov. 04) consumption as a metaphor for learning Rowland, Greg. Semiotics: Case study: pot noodle [http://www.semiotic.co.uk/potnoodle.html] (Nov. 04) developping a brand for Unilever Schorr, Juliet. "The New Politics of Consumption: Why Americans want so much more than they need" in: The Boston Review. [http://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.3/schor.html] (Nov. 04) On consumption in general (cars etc.) TOP
	nuclear semiotics (to Pandora's Box): "And into Eternity ... Communication over 10000s of Years: How Will We Tell our Children's Children Where the Nuclear Waste is? " (Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 1984 vol.6, n.3) [http://ling.kgw.tu-berlin.de/semiotik/english/ZFS/Zfs84_3_e.htm] (Oct. 05) Abstracts of the texts by Sebeok, Posner, Lem, Bastide and Fabbri, Voigt, Sontag, Rehder, Tannenbaum, Blonsky etc. Garfield, Susan. "Atomic Priesthood" is Not Nuclear Guardianship. A Critique of Thomas Sebeok's Vision of the Future. NUCLEAR GUARDIANSHIP FORUM, On the Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials, Issue 3, Spring 1994, p. 15. [http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NGP/AtomPriesthd.html] (Oct. =%)
.	in the classroom: Gender and stereotypes Teaching Media, Gender Stereotypes and Body Image. [http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/body_image/gndr_stereo_body_image.cfm] Units, lesson plans. Grades 6-7 Media Awareness Network: Teaching Media: [http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm] lesson plans, resources etc. for: Media literacy, web awareness, etc. Nancy S. Sullivan, ed. Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. [http://www.ricw.ri.gov/publications/GEH/geh.htm] Lesson plans (Mathematics, Social Studies, Language, Cultural Studies etc.) for Grades 1-3, 4-6, 6-9, 9-12, 12- Colson, Christopher: Gender Stereotypes and Advertisements. lesson plan: Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. Grades 3-6 [http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/86.htm] Colson, Christopher: Are our classroom materials Gender biased? lesson plan: Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. Grades 3-6 [http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/88.htm] van Noort, Kathleen E. Gender Equity in Fairy Tales lesson plan: Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. Grades 3-6 [http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/142.htm] Allen, Erika and Sarah Tremblay Cinderella, an Adaptation lesson plan: Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. Grades 9-12 [http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/197.htm] Ratcliffe, Melissa & Lori L'Heureux Barbie Girl (three-day unit) Infusing Equity by Gender in the Classroom. Grades 3-6 [http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/206.htm#DAY%20ONE] Learning Gender Awareness - Men for Change three sessions, Grade 8-9 [http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/gender_portrayal/gender_stereotypes.cfm] from the award-winning Violence-Prevention Curriculum Healthy Relationships, produced by the Halifax, Nova Scotia advocacy group Men For Change: Exposing Gender Stereotypes - Learning Gender Stereotypes - Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes news Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) News is Not Just Black and White, [http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/broadcast_news/bw_fact_vs_opinion_lesson.cfm] (Sept. 2008) a workbook of classroom activities dealing with representations of race and ethnicity in the newspaper. advertisements Center for the Study of Commercialism, Washington, D.C. The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image and Self-Esteem. Living in a Material World: Lessons on Commercialism, Consumption, and Environment, [http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/body_image/tpoh_price_of_happiness.cfm] An 8-lesson curriculum to help young people gain perspective on commercialism and consumerism in today's society. race and crime Perceptions of Youth and Crime. [http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/crime/youth_and_crime.cfm] Perceptions of Race and Crime. [http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/crime/race_and_crime.cfm] Grades 7+. To make students aware how the media's portrayals of race and crime can affect our attitudes towards various visible minority groups in our society architecture, proxemics Arias, Ivanna Jimenes. Proxemics in the ESL classroom (Forum, Vol 34 No 1, January - March 1996 ) [http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/vols/vol34/no1/p32.htm] fixed, semifixed-feature and intimate feature of rooms; sociopetal and sociofugal space photography Kodak lesson plans [http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/plus/chapter5/lessonPlans.shtml] Writing to photography
	date contents texts discussed recommended links week 1 23.9. introduction to semiotics communication models (Shannon/Weaver; Bühler; Jakobson) Sebeok, Thomas A. An Introduction to Semiotics Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics - The Basics general introduction communication models week 2 30.10. models of the sign Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, Part I, chapters 1&2 Thwaites, ch. 32: "Interaction of signs" signs paradigms, rules, codes week 3 7.10. signs and codes (Saussure, Eco, Sebeok) Sebeok: Six species of signs Sebeok: Pandora's Box signs paradigms, rules, codes To Pandora's Box week 4 14.10. texts and signs Thwaites, ch. 3: "Interaction of signs" denotation, connotation, myth week 5 21. 10. narratology (Todorov, Propp, Greimas, Barthes, Levy-Strauss) Branston, Gill and Roy Stafford. The Media Student's Book, ch. 3 narratives week 6 28. 10. representation and stereotpying TV / film Branston, Gill and Roy Stafford. The Media Student's Book. ch. 3 TV and film representation and stereotypes mass media: news week 7 4. 11. visual arts photography (Eco, Barthes) Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida Umberto Eco, Crittque of the Image   ... week 8 11.11. applied semiotics presentations and/or discussion Andrea Weckbecker & Julia Hegetschwiler Students choose topics (e.g.: mass media: news - advertising - TV and film - internet - visual arts (painting, photography) - design and fashion - architecture and proxemics- music - food - sport ) week 9 18.11. applied semiotics presentations and/or discussion Angelika Schäfer & Tatjana Hita     week 10 25.11. no meeting DIES ACADEMICUS   week 12 2.12. presentations and/or discussion Catharina Burkart & Natalie Nömer Anna Erhard & Sara Eggel   week 13 9.12. presentations and/or discussion Miro & Kevin Valentina Clerici & Daniel Marchese Samuel G. & Corinne W.   week 14 16. 12. presentations and/or discussion Patrick Reinhart & Percy von Tomei Emmanuel B. & Joanne B.   Introduction to semiotics: General introduction to semiotics and communication theory: communication models - signs - denotation, connotation, myth - paradigms, rules, codes - narratives - on-line glossaries and dictionaries - links pages Applied semiotics: mass media: news - advertising - TV and film - internet visual arts (painting, photography) - design and fashion - architecture and proxemics music - food - sport in the classroom (teaching units): gender and stereotypes (in news, advertisements etc.)
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