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Beyond immediacy and transparency. A semiotic approach to discursive and rhetorical strategies in media visualization and data visualization 除了即时性和透明度。媒体可视化和数据可视化中话语和修辞策略的符号学方法

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0006

Valentina Manchia

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Dynamic and spatial variables in data visualization systems 数据可视化系统中的动态和空间变量

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0002

J. Drucker

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The “modulation mania”. Impersonal enunciation and visual rhetoric of the data image “调制狂”。数据图像的客观表述和视觉修辞

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0003

Federico Biggio

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Semiotic approaches to big data visualization 大数据可视化的符号学方法

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0001

Pierluigi Basso Fossali, Mary Dondero, L. Yoka

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Spaces hiding within spaces 隐藏在空间中的空间

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0011

Alexander Dobrohotov

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From the body to the body, through the body: toward an embodied semiotics of culture 从身体到身体，通过身体:走向一种体现符号学的文化

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0022

Valeria De Luca

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An event in global Semiotikland 全球semiotiland的一个事件

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss/2022.0023

A. Hénault

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Semiotics of imagination in religion 宗教中想象的符号学

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0009

Thomas-Andreas Pöder

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Spatialization as a perceptual basis for information: How perception becomes a narrative 空间化作为信息的感知基础:感知如何成为一种叙事

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0020

Didier Tsala Effa

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Representing agency and action in the #storiesfromvaccination governmental campaign in Romania. A multimodal approach 代表罗马尼亚疫苗接种政府运动中的机构和行动。多式联运方法

Punctum International Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2022.0016

C. Cmeciu

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