Reading Time: 2 minutesHello! My name is Gabriel Matthew Bergman, and I am a first year PhD student in thedepartment of Semiotics at the University of Tartu. I hold an MA in Semiotics from theUniversity of Tartu, and a BA in Creative Writing and Philosophy from Eckerd College. My MAthesis work explored the concept of intimacy as a […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesHortus Semioticus welcomes the newest postdoc to the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Ilana Hartikainen. To celebrate we asked Ilana to introduce herself, and you can find her introduction below! Let me get this out of the way: I just started a postdoc at the Department of Semiotics, and I am not […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesAutumn School of Humanities and Arts has always been an excellent platform for students to present their work and gather valuable feedback from their colleagues and attendees. Apart from the oral presentations that take place every year during the two-day conference, another option offered to the participants is to introduce their research with a poster […]
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Reading Time: 18 minutesThis paper aims at providing a critical analysis of the video game “Persona 3”, examining the resemiotization and intersemiotics involved, in order to construct an intricate narrative, and build a new world. The plethora of cultural elements, and mythologies from all around the world, in combination with Carl Jung’s psychoanalytic, and the complex game-play, provide a unique experience for the player that can be perfectly analyzed under the light of semiotics. This video game could work as an example to illustrate and explain different notions of semiotics; beyond that, this dissertation could be the basis of further research that will, hopefully, contribute in the field of Semiotics of Video Games.
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