Information flows in cyberspace – emerging connections

Abstract

This work analyzes the spatial and temporal specificities of the socio-communicational interactions mediated by contemporary communication devices, starting from the premise that communication media spatially concretize technically mediated temporal relationships, according to the dominant communication logic. Therefore, through varied temporal dynamics, today’s communication devices connect the information flows that run through cyberspace. From the standpoint of Peircean semiosis, whose regulating principles suggest the continuous and irreversible unfolding of communicational logic, we discuss how the netlike logic of hypermedia outlines emergent temporalities in cyberspace. Far from signifying a rupture, the netlike logic of hypermedia is seen here as a semiotic evolution which strains the spatial and temporal perspective of the mediatic logic of communication.