Concepts
“Digital Semiotics?”
- Digital icon = trash can, folder
- Digital index = hyperlink
- Digital symbol = “browser,” “web”
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On semiotics and the internet see:
- Callahan (semiotics and GUI design)
- Sherson (metaphors and web design)
Notes:
Perhaps the most obvious “concept” associated with Technoaesthetics falls in the realm of language. “Digital semiotics” describes how meaning occurs in the digital realm.
Charles Peirce described three types of signs. Peirce’s icon is a sign by virtue of its resemblance to its object. An index points to its object by virtue of a physical connection and a symbol is a type of sign connected to its object by habit, and is th