research topics

frameworks

• Social semiotics
• Technosemiotics: environmental, social and cultural impact of technology
• Science and Technology Studies

methods

• Discourse analysis
• Grounded theory
• Sociotechnical analysis
• Envirotechnical analysis

possible topics for supervision and research collaboration

• Conceptual frameworks from science and technology studies (STS) and semiotics (in comparison)
• Sociotechnical systems
• Semiotics and artificial intelligence systems (AIS)
• Material impact of AIS
• Semiotic impact of AIS
• Interpretive flexibility of sociotechnical systems: unexpected uses of technology
• The (perceived) impact of generative AI
• The impact of AIS on institutions and social contracts (theoretical or case studies)
• The uses and reception of generative media (deepfakes, synthetic texts)
• Critical studies of AIS
• Historical entanglements of semiotics and AI research
• Social constructivism and technological determinism

• Computer systems as semiotic technologies

• Anthropomorphism of technology
• Anthropomorphism and automation bias
• Sociocultural construction of technical systems
• Representations of technology in cultural texts
• Historical representations of technologies
• Historical automata