Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective. , 2021
Abstract In this chapter, I review the nature of Systems Research to advance it as a way of doin... more Abstract In this chapter, I review the nature of Systems Research to advance it as a way of doing complex and heterogeneous systems science. I examine semiotics and cybersemiotics as some of the thinking models that converge in systemics and describe the type of semiotic systems that can be studied with the Systems Research approach; as in the case of open systems and their transduction processes or semio- sis. The representative systems of this kind comprise life and culture, yet, the study of society requires epistemic concepts of comprehensive scope, both philosophical and methodological, like the concepts in the cybersemiotic ontology and systemic- semiotic approaches. A brief comment on the relationship between systemic- semiotics and cybersemiotics is included in each section. Motivated by these ideas, the chapter’s main tenet is to present a method to represent culture using network and graph models. The aim of this kind of representations is to understand how consciousness evolves within culture, in such a fashion that culture may be under- stood as an organism, as is postulated by cybersemiotics. Finally, the chapter closes with a discussion on the role of cybersemiotics and systemic-semiotics in the trans- disciplinary thinking models, in particular within Systems Research.
Hábito comunicacional y distanciamiento social. Efectos en los modos de producción de signos desp... more Hábito comunicacional y distanciamiento social. Efectos en los modos de producción de signos después de la pandemia de 2020 Communicative habitus and social distancing. Effects on the modes of sign production after the 2020 pandemic
Communicative habitus and social distancing. Effects on the modes of sign production after the 20... more Communicative habitus and social distancing. Effects on the modes of sign production after the 2020 pandemic Hábito comunicacional y distanciamiento social. Efectos en los modos de producción de signos después de la pandemia de 2020
In the last 5 years, there has been great debate about digital communication and its role in elec... more In the last 5 years, there has been great debate about digital communication and its role in electoral politics. The question on everyone's mind is: can viral and massive information on social networks change the voting tendencies and behavior of people? We expose a series of theoretical points from the perspective of semiotics and systemics, to understand these communication phenomena, which are hallmarks of the twenty-first century. We also include some cases of semiotic and systemic orientation and our proposal about natural and artificial communication through viral cascades.
Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This... more Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This monograph answers such questions by employing semiotics and general systems theory. The case study concentrates on the structural meaning of the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico. The authors introduce new dimensions to build ethnographic knowledge via network theory: kinship relations are the basis of networks analysis; the parameters of order and control during a ritual can be objects, or public or private spaces; and the invariance of scale is an interface of vision. A cultural phenomenon is the consequence of an interaction between signs, time, varieties of states of reality, metalanguages coded and limited by a cluster of persons and by social contract. Aided by the tools of complex science, networks and graph theory, it is possible to observe these attributes and uncover an invariance of scale across all its dimensions and processes. This invariance of scale is the worldview or...
Revista Iberoamericana de Comunicación, Dec 31, 2017
El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de sistemas sobre algunos iso... more El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de sistemas sobre algunos isomorfismos relativos a las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (tic). El texto inicia con una exposición sobre el significado de los conceptos isomorfismo y homomorfismo (Beer, 1968; François, 2004). Después se definen los procesos isomorfos de interacción que generan información y entropía (Shannon, 1948) y sus componentes homomorfos individuo-público/privado, colectivo-público/privado. En el escrito se reflexiona sobre la validez del pensamiento sistémico para estudiar estos isomorfismos, así como el posible futuro de las tic digitales. Palabras clave: isomorfimo, redes socio-digitales, entropía, información, interacción. Abstract The objective of this essay is to make a revision from the systems paradigm on some isomorphisms related to Information and Communication Technologies (ict). The text begins with an exposition about the meaning of the concepts isomorphism and homomorphism (Beer, 1968; François, 2004). Then we define the isomorphic processes of interaction that generate information and entropy (Shannon, 1948) and its homomorphic components individual-public/private, collective-public/private. The text reflects on the validity of systemic thinking to study these isomorphisms, as well as the possible future of digital icts. Keywords: isomorphism, socio-digital networks, entropy, information, interaction.
Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This... more Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This monograph answers such questions by employing semiotics and general systems theory. The case study concentrates on the structural meaning of the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico. The authors introduce new dimensions to build ethnographic knowledge via network theory. Kinship relations are the basis of networks objects or public or private spaces; and the invariance of scale is an interaction between signs, time, varieties of states of reality, metalanguages coded and limited by a cluster of persons and by social contract. Aided by the tools of complex science, networks and graph theory, it is possible to observe the attributes and uncover an invariance of scale across all its dimensions and processes. This invariance of scale is the worldview or Weltanschauung.
The paper presents a study of the figures carved in a set of archaeological–osteological samples ... more The paper presents a study of the figures carved in a set of archaeological–osteological samples from the tomb site at Zaachila in Oaxaca, Mexico from a Quantitative Semiotics approach. It also advances a description to explain the ritual use of the human body as a support of writing to represent mythological scenes from a Pre-Hispanic indigenous worldview. Through the representations of glyphs carved in bones both synthetic and analytical readings of written records buried in the tomb at the Zaachila were undertaken.
The text consists of an archaeological description that adapts semiotic concepts used in interpretation of offerings through horizontal and vertical axes. It also carries out a description of the archaeological material and its interpretation from the Quantitative Semiotics method. In the end, we advance an explanation about the elements in the tombs through a systemic synthesis of the components that articulate the mythical story.
RITUALS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES, 2017
The purpose of this paper is the introduction of a methodology for Quantitative Semiotics within ... more The purpose of this paper is the introduction of a methodology for Quantitative Semiotics within a Systemic Approach and conjoined by the ethnohistorical method for studying one of Mexico’s most distinctive rituals: preparations of the cempaxuchitl flower (Tagetes erecta) for the Day of the Dead offerings as carried out by two families.
The methodology consists of two steps: based in Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland, 2009), the first one is the definition of the problem–situation of study at a given moment and its goal focuses on the descriptions of the ethnographic methods used for data gathering and structuring; mainly, an economic history model by Braudel (1992) that addresses sociocultural changes an continuities. The second step involves the characterization of a communicative event through Quantitative Semiotics aided by adapted versions of Kinship Theory (Yanagisako & Collier 1996; Fortes 1949; Morgan 1871; Dziebel, 2006), Percolation Theory (Sahimi, 2009) and the tools provided by Graph and Network Theory.
The results, though they remain only exploratory, allow for considerations of how the treatment of ethnographic data as the quantitative property in graph and network representations enabled the identification of meanings consolidating; chiefly the process by which a common object becomes a ritual object1.
Keywords: quantitative semiotics, ritual, day of the dead, percolation, complex networks
El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de
sistemas sobre algunos is... more El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de
sistemas sobre algunos isomorfismos relativos a las Tecnologías de la Información
y la Comunicación (tic). El texto inicia con una exposición sobre
el significado de los conceptos isomorfismo y homomorfismo (Beer, 1968;
François, 2004). Después se definen los procesos isomorfos de interacción
que generan información y entropía (Shannon, 1948) y sus componentes
homomorfos individuo-público/privado, colectivo-público/privado. En el escrito
se reflexiona sobre la validez del pensamiento sistémico para estudiar
estos isomorfismos, así como el posible futuro de las tic digitales.
Palabras clave: isomorfimo, redes socio-digitales, entropía, información,
interacción.
Abstract
The objective of this essay is to make a revision from the systems paradigm
on some isomorphisms related to Information and Communication
Technologies (ict). The text begins with an exposition about the meaning
of the concepts isomorphism and homomorphism (Beer, 1968; François,
2004). Then we define the isomorphic processes of interaction that generate
information and entropy (Shannon, 1948) and its homomorphic components
individual-public/private, collective-public/private. The text reflects
on the validity of systemic thinking to study these isomorphisms, as well
as the possible future of digital icts.
Keywords: isomorphism, socio-digital networks, entropy, information,
interaction.
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo esbozar al signo en un recorrido histórico que permita d... more El presente artículo tiene como objetivo esbozar al signo en un recorrido histórico que permita delinearlo como objeto de conocimiento al interior de la semiótica. Se tomarán algunas perspectivas que han observado al signo como modelo, como estructura, como relación lógica y finalmente como elemento cultural. La importancia de la delimitación de esta categoría nos permite ejemplificar lo que el estudio del signo permite en dos ámbitos: (i) los elementos que se toman en cuenta cuando se trata de hacer un análisis semiótico; (ii) los tipos de aproximación que a partir de la noción de signo se pueden generar para el análisis de los fenómenos culturales de significación y comunicación.
En el siguiente texto se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre las formas visuales de la escritura... more En el siguiente texto se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre las formas visuales de la escritura mesoamericana. Se revisan los modelos de interpretación que se han utilizado para explicar el funcionamiento de la escritura glífica. La reflexión conduce al modelo lingüístico que es de lo pocos que proponen una relación entre las formas visuales y de diseño de los glifos y las diversas dimensiones de la lengua.
The objective of ethnographic work has among its objectives to describe human behaviour in societ... more The objective of ethnographic work has among its objectives to describe human behaviour in society and the ways in which social institutions are structured. Therefore, describing the inverse processes is a fundamental part of ethnography, i.e. the effects of social institutions on the human behaviour and the consequences of social behaviour could change or remain in social institutions. The mathematical modelling of changes and continuities in social institutions is one of the issues for the hard sciences and social sciences subjects. In this paper we present to the reader a proposal to formalize the structure of one of the Mexican social institutions phenomenon called “The Mexican Day of the Death Ritual”. The Ritual of Deaths in Central and Southern Mexico has certain qualities that have been transmitted from generation to generation through Sign Systems under rules and patterns of communication-restricted interaction, these systems are called social institutions, they will be understood from the Systemic Science comparable to regular lattices and complex network. Such as the interaction of human groups in shared social spaces like public squares and cemeteries realize connectivity between individuals in the form of long-range connections or random long-range connections. The combined use of two types of networks (local and random) to model Complex Systems of Human Activity is called small world networks. Essentially the topological connection from a logic of classes can be supplemented regularly where the probability (p) is p = 0, or completely random where p = 1. However, the threshold of interest for social topological space networks is intermediate between 0 and 1: 0> p> 1. Through Ashby’s Law of requisite variety, describes the qualitative-quantitative properties that are governing the internal structure of the network, and the description of network changes. The objective to observe this critical site under the Law of Requisite Variety is to test whether the postulate of Ashby can be applied to conscious systems (human acts and vital systems), i.e., testing whether the relationship that serves as the regulator (power law) acts to limit the outcome to a particular subset of variables, or to maintain some variables within certain limits, or even to hold some variables constant.
In the scientific worldview it is common that we ask our-self how to label the objects and concep... more In the scientific worldview it is common that we ask our-self how to label the objects and concepts with an appropriated name that describes, defines and diagnoses the thing than we are talking about. In this everyday effort the International Council on Systems Engineering (ICSE) and the International Society for the Systems Sciences development the endeavor “Common Language for Systems Praxis Project” (IFS, 2012). As part of this common language in the ICSE they identify, explore, and understand the patterns of complexity across next views: 1) The source of the systems thinking or Foundation of the System Science, 2) The systems science theories and 3) The Representation of the System Science (IFSS, 2012). The present proposal is a contribution to Foundation of the System Science and has been based in the Semiotic view of complex phenomena through the graphs and networks tools of Representation of the Systems Science. In the First part It is describes why the use of complex science tools in social field. Next it has explained how is the link between Network Theory and Semiotic. Third part presents the results of an application of the approach. Finally it is show some brief conclusions.
The human communication is integrated by social phenomena,
not yet characterized at all, therefor... more The human communication is integrated by social phenomena, not yet characterized at all, therefore there isn’t an agreement identifying its problem or aim of study. This work presents a review of the concept of communication from the Soft Systems Methodology obtaining an holistic vision of the communicative phenomena. We conclude suggesting a quantitative Semiotics proposal to characterize the plural communicative events and its qualities.
Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective. , 2021
Abstract In this chapter, I review the nature of Systems Research to advance it as a way of doin... more Abstract In this chapter, I review the nature of Systems Research to advance it as a way of doing complex and heterogeneous systems science. I examine semiotics and cybersemiotics as some of the thinking models that converge in systemics and describe the type of semiotic systems that can be studied with the Systems Research approach; as in the case of open systems and their transduction processes or semio- sis. The representative systems of this kind comprise life and culture, yet, the study of society requires epistemic concepts of comprehensive scope, both philosophical and methodological, like the concepts in the cybersemiotic ontology and systemic- semiotic approaches. A brief comment on the relationship between systemic- semiotics and cybersemiotics is included in each section. Motivated by these ideas, the chapter’s main tenet is to present a method to represent culture using network and graph models. The aim of this kind of representations is to understand how consciousness evolves within culture, in such a fashion that culture may be under- stood as an organism, as is postulated by cybersemiotics. Finally, the chapter closes with a discussion on the role of cybersemiotics and systemic-semiotics in the trans- disciplinary thinking models, in particular within Systems Research.
Hábito comunicacional y distanciamiento social. Efectos en los modos de producción de signos desp... more Hábito comunicacional y distanciamiento social. Efectos en los modos de producción de signos después de la pandemia de 2020 Communicative habitus and social distancing. Effects on the modes of sign production after the 2020 pandemic
Communicative habitus and social distancing. Effects on the modes of sign production after the 20... more Communicative habitus and social distancing. Effects on the modes of sign production after the 2020 pandemic Hábito comunicacional y distanciamiento social. Efectos en los modos de producción de signos después de la pandemia de 2020
In the last 5 years, there has been great debate about digital communication and its role in elec... more In the last 5 years, there has been great debate about digital communication and its role in electoral politics. The question on everyone's mind is: can viral and massive information on social networks change the voting tendencies and behavior of people? We expose a series of theoretical points from the perspective of semiotics and systemics, to understand these communication phenomena, which are hallmarks of the twenty-first century. We also include some cases of semiotic and systemic orientation and our proposal about natural and artificial communication through viral cascades.
Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This... more Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This monograph answers such questions by employing semiotics and general systems theory. The case study concentrates on the structural meaning of the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico. The authors introduce new dimensions to build ethnographic knowledge via network theory: kinship relations are the basis of networks analysis; the parameters of order and control during a ritual can be objects, or public or private spaces; and the invariance of scale is an interface of vision. A cultural phenomenon is the consequence of an interaction between signs, time, varieties of states of reality, metalanguages coded and limited by a cluster of persons and by social contract. Aided by the tools of complex science, networks and graph theory, it is possible to observe these attributes and uncover an invariance of scale across all its dimensions and processes. This invariance of scale is the worldview or...
Revista Iberoamericana de Comunicación, Dec 31, 2017
El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de sistemas sobre algunos iso... more El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de sistemas sobre algunos isomorfismos relativos a las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (tic). El texto inicia con una exposición sobre el significado de los conceptos isomorfismo y homomorfismo (Beer, 1968; François, 2004). Después se definen los procesos isomorfos de interacción que generan información y entropía (Shannon, 1948) y sus componentes homomorfos individuo-público/privado, colectivo-público/privado. En el escrito se reflexiona sobre la validez del pensamiento sistémico para estudiar estos isomorfismos, así como el posible futuro de las tic digitales. Palabras clave: isomorfimo, redes socio-digitales, entropía, información, interacción. Abstract The objective of this essay is to make a revision from the systems paradigm on some isomorphisms related to Information and Communication Technologies (ict). The text begins with an exposition about the meaning of the concepts isomorphism and homomorphism (Beer, 1968; François, 2004). Then we define the isomorphic processes of interaction that generate information and entropy (Shannon, 1948) and its homomorphic components individual-public/private, collective-public/private. The text reflects on the validity of systemic thinking to study these isomorphisms, as well as the possible future of digital icts. Keywords: isomorphism, socio-digital networks, entropy, information, interaction.
Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This... more Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This monograph answers such questions by employing semiotics and general systems theory. The case study concentrates on the structural meaning of the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico. The authors introduce new dimensions to build ethnographic knowledge via network theory. Kinship relations are the basis of networks objects or public or private spaces; and the invariance of scale is an interaction between signs, time, varieties of states of reality, metalanguages coded and limited by a cluster of persons and by social contract. Aided by the tools of complex science, networks and graph theory, it is possible to observe the attributes and uncover an invariance of scale across all its dimensions and processes. This invariance of scale is the worldview or Weltanschauung.
The paper presents a study of the figures carved in a set of archaeological–osteological samples ... more The paper presents a study of the figures carved in a set of archaeological–osteological samples from the tomb site at Zaachila in Oaxaca, Mexico from a Quantitative Semiotics approach. It also advances a description to explain the ritual use of the human body as a support of writing to represent mythological scenes from a Pre-Hispanic indigenous worldview. Through the representations of glyphs carved in bones both synthetic and analytical readings of written records buried in the tomb at the Zaachila were undertaken.
The text consists of an archaeological description that adapts semiotic concepts used in interpretation of offerings through horizontal and vertical axes. It also carries out a description of the archaeological material and its interpretation from the Quantitative Semiotics method. In the end, we advance an explanation about the elements in the tombs through a systemic synthesis of the components that articulate the mythical story.
RITUALS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES, 2017
The purpose of this paper is the introduction of a methodology for Quantitative Semiotics within ... more The purpose of this paper is the introduction of a methodology for Quantitative Semiotics within a Systemic Approach and conjoined by the ethnohistorical method for studying one of Mexico’s most distinctive rituals: preparations of the cempaxuchitl flower (Tagetes erecta) for the Day of the Dead offerings as carried out by two families.
The methodology consists of two steps: based in Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland, 2009), the first one is the definition of the problem–situation of study at a given moment and its goal focuses on the descriptions of the ethnographic methods used for data gathering and structuring; mainly, an economic history model by Braudel (1992) that addresses sociocultural changes an continuities. The second step involves the characterization of a communicative event through Quantitative Semiotics aided by adapted versions of Kinship Theory (Yanagisako & Collier 1996; Fortes 1949; Morgan 1871; Dziebel, 2006), Percolation Theory (Sahimi, 2009) and the tools provided by Graph and Network Theory.
The results, though they remain only exploratory, allow for considerations of how the treatment of ethnographic data as the quantitative property in graph and network representations enabled the identification of meanings consolidating; chiefly the process by which a common object becomes a ritual object1.
Keywords: quantitative semiotics, ritual, day of the dead, percolation, complex networks
El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de
sistemas sobre algunos is... more El objetivo de este ensayo es hacer una revisión desde el paradigma de
sistemas sobre algunos isomorfismos relativos a las Tecnologías de la Información
y la Comunicación (tic). El texto inicia con una exposición sobre
el significado de los conceptos isomorfismo y homomorfismo (Beer, 1968;
François, 2004). Después se definen los procesos isomorfos de interacción
que generan información y entropía (Shannon, 1948) y sus componentes
homomorfos individuo-público/privado, colectivo-público/privado. En el escrito
se reflexiona sobre la validez del pensamiento sistémico para estudiar
estos isomorfismos, así como el posible futuro de las tic digitales.
Palabras clave: isomorfimo, redes socio-digitales, entropía, información,
interacción.
Abstract
The objective of this essay is to make a revision from the systems paradigm
on some isomorphisms related to Information and Communication
Technologies (ict). The text begins with an exposition about the meaning
of the concepts isomorphism and homomorphism (Beer, 1968; François,
2004). Then we define the isomorphic processes of interaction that generate
information and entropy (Shannon, 1948) and its homomorphic components
individual-public/private, collective-public/private. The text reflects
on the validity of systemic thinking to study these isomorphisms, as well
as the possible future of digital icts.
Keywords: isomorphism, socio-digital networks, entropy, information,
interaction.
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo esbozar al signo en un recorrido histórico que permita d... more El presente artículo tiene como objetivo esbozar al signo en un recorrido histórico que permita delinearlo como objeto de conocimiento al interior de la semiótica. Se tomarán algunas perspectivas que han observado al signo como modelo, como estructura, como relación lógica y finalmente como elemento cultural. La importancia de la delimitación de esta categoría nos permite ejemplificar lo que el estudio del signo permite en dos ámbitos: (i) los elementos que se toman en cuenta cuando se trata de hacer un análisis semiótico; (ii) los tipos de aproximación que a partir de la noción de signo se pueden generar para el análisis de los fenómenos culturales de significación y comunicación.
En el siguiente texto se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre las formas visuales de la escritura... more En el siguiente texto se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre las formas visuales de la escritura mesoamericana. Se revisan los modelos de interpretación que se han utilizado para explicar el funcionamiento de la escritura glífica. La reflexión conduce al modelo lingüístico que es de lo pocos que proponen una relación entre las formas visuales y de diseño de los glifos y las diversas dimensiones de la lengua.
The objective of ethnographic work has among its objectives to describe human behaviour in societ... more The objective of ethnographic work has among its objectives to describe human behaviour in society and the ways in which social institutions are structured. Therefore, describing the inverse processes is a fundamental part of ethnography, i.e. the effects of social institutions on the human behaviour and the consequences of social behaviour could change or remain in social institutions. The mathematical modelling of changes and continuities in social institutions is one of the issues for the hard sciences and social sciences subjects. In this paper we present to the reader a proposal to formalize the structure of one of the Mexican social institutions phenomenon called “The Mexican Day of the Death Ritual”. The Ritual of Deaths in Central and Southern Mexico has certain qualities that have been transmitted from generation to generation through Sign Systems under rules and patterns of communication-restricted interaction, these systems are called social institutions, they will be understood from the Systemic Science comparable to regular lattices and complex network. Such as the interaction of human groups in shared social spaces like public squares and cemeteries realize connectivity between individuals in the form of long-range connections or random long-range connections. The combined use of two types of networks (local and random) to model Complex Systems of Human Activity is called small world networks. Essentially the topological connection from a logic of classes can be supplemented regularly where the probability (p) is p = 0, or completely random where p = 1. However, the threshold of interest for social topological space networks is intermediate between 0 and 1: 0> p> 1. Through Ashby’s Law of requisite variety, describes the qualitative-quantitative properties that are governing the internal structure of the network, and the description of network changes. The objective to observe this critical site under the Law of Requisite Variety is to test whether the postulate of Ashby can be applied to conscious systems (human acts and vital systems), i.e., testing whether the relationship that serves as the regulator (power law) acts to limit the outcome to a particular subset of variables, or to maintain some variables within certain limits, or even to hold some variables constant.
In the scientific worldview it is common that we ask our-self how to label the objects and concep... more In the scientific worldview it is common that we ask our-self how to label the objects and concepts with an appropriated name that describes, defines and diagnoses the thing than we are talking about. In this everyday effort the International Council on Systems Engineering (ICSE) and the International Society for the Systems Sciences development the endeavor “Common Language for Systems Praxis Project” (IFS, 2012). As part of this common language in the ICSE they identify, explore, and understand the patterns of complexity across next views: 1) The source of the systems thinking or Foundation of the System Science, 2) The systems science theories and 3) The Representation of the System Science (IFSS, 2012). The present proposal is a contribution to Foundation of the System Science and has been based in the Semiotic view of complex phenomena through the graphs and networks tools of Representation of the Systems Science. In the First part It is describes why the use of complex science tools in social field. Next it has explained how is the link between Network Theory and Semiotic. Third part presents the results of an application of the approach. Finally it is show some brief conclusions.
The human communication is integrated by social phenomena,
not yet characterized at all, therefor... more The human communication is integrated by social phenomena, not yet characterized at all, therefore there isn’t an agreement identifying its problem or aim of study. This work presents a review of the concept of communication from the Soft Systems Methodology obtaining an holistic vision of the communicative phenomena. We conclude suggesting a quantitative Semiotics proposal to characterize the plural communicative events and its qualities.
Esta investigación es una propuesta sistémica, para la formalización de los siguientes fenómenos ... more Esta investigación es una propuesta sistémica, para la formalización de los siguientes fenómenos del lenguaje: el proceso de adquisición de significado o semiosis, los sistemas de signos, sus representaciones en la historia mesoamericana y la modelación de fenómenos simbólicos, a través de la teoría de las redes complejas. Los fenómenos que se examinan son: (1) la operación de las clases léxicas y funcionales del lenguaje a través de sus representaciones simbólicas arqueológicas, como una propiedad de los sistemas conscientes; (2) la elaboración de una metodología sistémica, para identificar el significado de representaciones simbólicas no descifradas, por medio de patrones de emergencia. La primera parte del trabajo (Capítulos 1-3) expone un contexto histórico, antropológico, semiótico y sistémico en el cuál se justifica la pertinencia de la investigación, como parte de la ingeniería de sistemas. La segunda parte del trabajo (Capítulos 4-5) expone la metodología sistémica utilizada para investigar los patrones emergentes en las representaciones sígnicas mesoamericanas, y finalmente, la validación de la metodología, modelando un fenómeno simbólico del ritual mesoamericano actual.
Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This... more Is it possible to demonstrate how graph theory and networks theory represent cultural facts? This monograph answers such questions by employing semiotics and general systems theory. The case study concentrates on the structural meaning of the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico. The authors introduce new dimensions to build ethnographic knowledge via network theory: kinship relations are the basis of networks analysis; the parameters of order and control during a ritual can be objects, or public or private spaces; and the invariance of scale is an interface of vision. A cultural phenomenon is the consequence of an interaction between signs, time, varieties of states of reality, metalanguages coded and limited by a cluster of persons and by social contract. Aided by the tools of complex science, networks and graph theory, it is possible to observe these attributes and uncover an invariance of scale across all its dimensions and processes. This invariance of scale is the worldview or Weltanschauung.
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The text consists of an archaeological description that adapts semiotic concepts used in interpretation of offerings through horizontal and vertical axes. It also carries out a description of the archaeological material and its interpretation from the Quantitative Semiotics method. In the end, we advance an explanation about the elements in the tombs through a systemic synthesis of the components that articulate the mythical story.
The methodology consists of two steps: based in Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland, 2009), the first one is the definition of the problem–situation of study at a given moment and its goal focuses on the descriptions of the ethnographic methods used for data gathering and structuring; mainly, an economic history model by Braudel (1992) that addresses sociocultural changes an continuities. The second step involves the characterization of a communicative event through Quantitative Semiotics aided by adapted versions of Kinship Theory (Yanagisako & Collier 1996; Fortes 1949; Morgan 1871; Dziebel, 2006), Percolation Theory (Sahimi, 2009) and the tools provided by Graph and Network Theory.
The results, though they remain only exploratory, allow for considerations of how the treatment of ethnographic data as the quantitative property in graph and network representations enabled the identification of meanings consolidating; chiefly the process by which a common object becomes a ritual object1.
Keywords: quantitative semiotics, ritual, day of the dead, percolation, complex networks
sistemas sobre algunos isomorfismos relativos a las Tecnologías de la Información
y la Comunicación (tic). El texto inicia con una exposición sobre
el significado de los conceptos isomorfismo y homomorfismo (Beer, 1968;
François, 2004). Después se definen los procesos isomorfos de interacción
que generan información y entropía (Shannon, 1948) y sus componentes
homomorfos individuo-público/privado, colectivo-público/privado. En el escrito
se reflexiona sobre la validez del pensamiento sistémico para estudiar
estos isomorfismos, así como el posible futuro de las tic digitales.
Palabras clave: isomorfimo, redes socio-digitales, entropía, información,
interacción.
Abstract
The objective of this essay is to make a revision from the systems paradigm
on some isomorphisms related to Information and Communication
Technologies (ict). The text begins with an exposition about the meaning
of the concepts isomorphism and homomorphism (Beer, 1968; François,
2004). Then we define the isomorphic processes of interaction that generate
information and entropy (Shannon, 1948) and its homomorphic components
individual-public/private, collective-public/private. The text reflects
on the validity of systemic thinking to study these isomorphisms, as well
as the possible future of digital icts.
Keywords: isomorphism, socio-digital networks, entropy, information,
interaction.
http://bidi.xoc.uam.mx/tabla_contenido_libro.php?id_libro=327
The Ritual of Deaths in Central and Southern Mexico has certain qualities that have been transmitted from generation to generation through Sign Systems under rules and patterns of communication-restricted interaction, these systems are called social institutions, they will be understood from the Systemic Science comparable to regular lattices and complex network. Such as the interaction of human groups in shared social spaces like public squares and cemeteries realize connectivity between individuals in the form of long-range connections or random long-range connections.
The combined use of two types of networks (local and random) to model Complex Systems of Human Activity is called small world networks. Essentially the topological connection from a logic of classes can be supplemented regularly where the probability (p) is p = 0, or completely random where p = 1. However, the threshold of interest for social topological space networks is intermediate between 0 and 1: 0> p> 1.
Through Ashby’s Law of requisite variety, describes the qualitative-quantitative properties that are governing the internal structure of the network, and the description of network changes. The objective to observe this critical site under the Law of Requisite Variety is to test whether the postulate of Ashby can be applied to conscious systems (human acts and vital systems), i.e., testing whether the relationship that serves as the regulator (power law) acts to limit the outcome to a particular subset of variables, or to maintain some variables within certain limits, or even to hold some variables constant.
As part of this common language in the ICSE they identify, explore, and understand the patterns of complexity across next views: 1) The source of the systems thinking or Foundation of the System Science, 2) The systems science theories and 3) The Representation of the System Science (IFSS, 2012).
The present proposal is a contribution to Foundation of the System Science and has been based in the Semiotic view of complex phenomena through the graphs and networks tools of Representation of the Systems Science.
In the First part It is describes why the use of complex science tools in social field. Next it has explained how is the link between Network Theory and Semiotic. Third part presents the results of an application of the approach. Finally it is show some brief conclusions.
not yet characterized at all, therefore there isn’t an agreement
identifying its problem or aim of study. This work presents a review of the concept of communication from the Soft Systems Methodology obtaining an holistic vision of the communicative phenomena. We conclude suggesting a quantitative Semiotics proposal to characterize the plural communicative events and
its qualities.
The text consists of an archaeological description that adapts semiotic concepts used in interpretation of offerings through horizontal and vertical axes. It also carries out a description of the archaeological material and its interpretation from the Quantitative Semiotics method. In the end, we advance an explanation about the elements in the tombs through a systemic synthesis of the components that articulate the mythical story.
The methodology consists of two steps: based in Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland, 2009), the first one is the definition of the problem–situation of study at a given moment and its goal focuses on the descriptions of the ethnographic methods used for data gathering and structuring; mainly, an economic history model by Braudel (1992) that addresses sociocultural changes an continuities. The second step involves the characterization of a communicative event through Quantitative Semiotics aided by adapted versions of Kinship Theory (Yanagisako & Collier 1996; Fortes 1949; Morgan 1871; Dziebel, 2006), Percolation Theory (Sahimi, 2009) and the tools provided by Graph and Network Theory.
The results, though they remain only exploratory, allow for considerations of how the treatment of ethnographic data as the quantitative property in graph and network representations enabled the identification of meanings consolidating; chiefly the process by which a common object becomes a ritual object1.
Keywords: quantitative semiotics, ritual, day of the dead, percolation, complex networks
sistemas sobre algunos isomorfismos relativos a las Tecnologías de la Información
y la Comunicación (tic). El texto inicia con una exposición sobre
el significado de los conceptos isomorfismo y homomorfismo (Beer, 1968;
François, 2004). Después se definen los procesos isomorfos de interacción
que generan información y entropía (Shannon, 1948) y sus componentes
homomorfos individuo-público/privado, colectivo-público/privado. En el escrito
se reflexiona sobre la validez del pensamiento sistémico para estudiar
estos isomorfismos, así como el posible futuro de las tic digitales.
Palabras clave: isomorfimo, redes socio-digitales, entropía, información,
interacción.
Abstract
The objective of this essay is to make a revision from the systems paradigm
on some isomorphisms related to Information and Communication
Technologies (ict). The text begins with an exposition about the meaning
of the concepts isomorphism and homomorphism (Beer, 1968; François,
2004). Then we define the isomorphic processes of interaction that generate
information and entropy (Shannon, 1948) and its homomorphic components
individual-public/private, collective-public/private. The text reflects
on the validity of systemic thinking to study these isomorphisms, as well
as the possible future of digital icts.
Keywords: isomorphism, socio-digital networks, entropy, information,
interaction.
http://bidi.xoc.uam.mx/tabla_contenido_libro.php?id_libro=327
The Ritual of Deaths in Central and Southern Mexico has certain qualities that have been transmitted from generation to generation through Sign Systems under rules and patterns of communication-restricted interaction, these systems are called social institutions, they will be understood from the Systemic Science comparable to regular lattices and complex network. Such as the interaction of human groups in shared social spaces like public squares and cemeteries realize connectivity between individuals in the form of long-range connections or random long-range connections.
The combined use of two types of networks (local and random) to model Complex Systems of Human Activity is called small world networks. Essentially the topological connection from a logic of classes can be supplemented regularly where the probability (p) is p = 0, or completely random where p = 1. However, the threshold of interest for social topological space networks is intermediate between 0 and 1: 0> p> 1.
Through Ashby’s Law of requisite variety, describes the qualitative-quantitative properties that are governing the internal structure of the network, and the description of network changes. The objective to observe this critical site under the Law of Requisite Variety is to test whether the postulate of Ashby can be applied to conscious systems (human acts and vital systems), i.e., testing whether the relationship that serves as the regulator (power law) acts to limit the outcome to a particular subset of variables, or to maintain some variables within certain limits, or even to hold some variables constant.
As part of this common language in the ICSE they identify, explore, and understand the patterns of complexity across next views: 1) The source of the systems thinking or Foundation of the System Science, 2) The systems science theories and 3) The Representation of the System Science (IFSS, 2012).
The present proposal is a contribution to Foundation of the System Science and has been based in the Semiotic view of complex phenomena through the graphs and networks tools of Representation of the Systems Science.
In the First part It is describes why the use of complex science tools in social field. Next it has explained how is the link between Network Theory and Semiotic. Third part presents the results of an application of the approach. Finally it is show some brief conclusions.
not yet characterized at all, therefore there isn’t an agreement
identifying its problem or aim of study. This work presents a review of the concept of communication from the Soft Systems Methodology obtaining an holistic vision of the communicative phenomena. We conclude suggesting a quantitative Semiotics proposal to characterize the plural communicative events and
its qualities.
proceso de adquisición de significado o semiosis, los sistemas de signos, sus representaciones en la historia
mesoamericana y la modelación de fenómenos simbólicos, a través de la teoría de las redes complejas. Los
fenómenos que se examinan son: (1) la operación de las clases léxicas y funcionales del lenguaje a través de sus
representaciones simbólicas arqueológicas, como una propiedad de los sistemas conscientes; (2) la elaboración de
una metodología sistémica, para identificar el significado de representaciones simbólicas no descifradas, por medio
de patrones de emergencia. La primera parte del trabajo (Capítulos 1-3) expone un contexto histórico, antropológico,
semiótico y sistémico en el cuál se justifica la pertinencia de la investigación, como parte de la ingeniería de
sistemas. La segunda parte del trabajo (Capítulos 4-5) expone la metodología sistémica utilizada para investigar los
patrones emergentes en las representaciones sígnicas mesoamericanas, y finalmente, la validación de la
metodología, modelando un fenómeno simbólico del ritual mesoamericano actual.