Pesquisando semiótica visual online

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https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2020i21p116-145

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Pesquisa de métodos mistos, Pesquisa de imagens do Google, Análise de conteúdo visual, Teoria semiótica, Métodos semióticos, Semiótica peirceana

Resumo

Analisar significado visual online e realizar a curadoria de imagens digitalizadas são tópicos de crescente relevância, mas muitas metodologias potenciais para fazê-lo permanecem meramente implícitas, subtematizadas ou inexploradas. O potencial para testar e desenvolver a teoria semiótica por meio da exploração de dados visuais online também requer atenção muito mais cuidadosa. Em resposta, este artigo fornece um relato integrado, reflexivo e peirceano de dois estudos de caso que apresentam projetos de pesquisa focados em dados visuais extraídos principalmente de fontes online, baseando-se grandemente no Pesquisa de Imagens do Google (Google Image Search) como ferramenta de coleta de dados. O primeiro estudo ilustra a análise comparativa de logotipos de marcas para testar e refinar uma teoria da semiótica corporificada envolvendo relações de oposição. O segundo estudo ilustra a análise comparativa de imagens que retratam a Roda da Vida Tibetana e Yama, o monstro da morte, a fim de testar a hipótese fundamental da corporificação para o quadrado semiótico. Questões de formação de hipóteses, parâmetros de pesquisa, coleta de dados, construção de banco de dados, operacionalização, parâmetros de codificação, arquivamento de dados abertos e questões relacionadas são abordadas a fim de desenvolver e encorajar práticas de pesquisa semiótica visual online no contexto dos estudos acadêmicos em humanidades digitais.

Biografia do Autor

Jamin Pelkey, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canadá

Dr. Jamin Pelkey é professor associado do Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas e membro central do programa de pós-graduação em Comunicação e Cultura da Ryerson-York. Ele ingressou no departamento em 2013, após cinco anos de aulas universitárias na Columbia Britânica e mais de uma década de experiência de campo no hemisfério oriental - incluindo China, Tailândia e Austrália. O Dr. Pelkey é PhD em Lingüística pela Universidade La Trobe, Melbourne, financiado integralmente e premiado com mérito em 2009. Suas áreas de especialização incluem filosofia da linguagem, cognição incorporada, linguística de Tibeto-Burman, linguística histórica, C. S. Peirce, e semiótica. Ele é um professor e pesquisador premiado com duas bolsas federais, incluindo "Passos para uma Gramática de Simetria Incorporada" (SSHRC-IDG #430-2015-01226), dois Dean's Awards para ensino (2015) e pesquisa (2018) - o Mouton d'Or Award para melhor artigo em Semiotica (2017) e o Ryerson University Early Research Career Excellence Award (2018). Atualmente ele está editando a Bloomsbury Semiotica, uma grande obra de referência em quatro volumes.

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