Multimedia Semiotics. Santini, S. In Encyclopedia of Multimedia, pages 596–600. Springer US, 2008. 00001
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DefinitionMultimedia signals are artifacts intended to convey messages and, as such, they are a legitimate object of semiotic analysis.IntroductionSome care must be taken in semiotic analysis because, if it is legitimate to consider multimedia as a form of text, the peculiar characteristics of this text, and the intertwined reading modalities that it presents, impose the use of specific analysis instruments.The first issue that presents itself is about the very nature of the multimedia sign: to put it in Piercean terms: is the multimedia sign an icon, an index, or a symbol? (See semiotics for a definition of these and other technical terms.) The complexity of the multimedia sign is revealed by the fact that it participates in all these natures: it is at one time an icon, an index, and a symbol.The iconic status of the multimedia sign that, at a superficial analysis would appear the most obvious, is in reality quite complex and problematic. It won't do, in fact, to ...
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	title = {Multimedia {Semiotics}},
	copyright = {©2008 Springer-Verlag},
	isbn = {978-0-387-74724-8 978-0-387-78414-4},
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	abstract = {DefinitionMultimedia signals are artifacts intended to convey messages and, as such, they are a legitimate object of semiotic analysis.IntroductionSome care must be taken in semiotic analysis because, if it is legitimate to consider multimedia as a form of text, the peculiar characteristics of this text, and the intertwined reading modalities that it presents, impose the use of specific analysis instruments.The first issue that presents itself is about the very nature of the multimedia sign: to put it in Piercean terms: is the multimedia sign an icon, an index, or a symbol? (See semiotics for a definition of these and other technical terms.) The complexity of the multimedia sign is revealed by the fact that it participates in all these natures: it is at one time an icon, an index, and a symbol.The iconic status of the multimedia sign that, at a superficial analysis would appear the most obvious, is in reality quite complex and problematic. It won't do, in fact, to ...},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2016-05-03},
	booktitle = {Encyclopedia of {Multimedia}},
	publisher = {Springer US},
	author = {Santini, Simone},
	editor = {Furht, Borko},
	year = {2008},
	note = {00001},
	pages = {596--600}
}

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