Platfospheres and sociocultural explosion of Web 2.0: The commercial centre of the digital semiosphere.

This paper explores digital culture with the tools of cultural semiotics in general, and then employing the semiosphere model in particular. Web 2.0 platforms are taken as the major cultural dispositive of our time, as the most representative way in which the internet shapes digital culture. Most of...

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Publicado en:Sign Systems Studies Vol. 48; no. 2-4; pp. 246 - 271
Autor principal: Bankov, Kristian
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Tartu 2020
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        Web 2.0
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        This paper explores digital culture with the tools of cultural semiotics in general, and then employing the semiosphere model in particular. Web 2.0 platforms are taken as the major cultural dispositive of our time, as the most representative way in which the internet shapes digital culture. Most of the global population is currently immersed in digital culture. In the first part of the paper the striking similarities between Web 2.0 platforms and the semiosphere are explored and equivalences between the elements of the classic (Lotman's) semiotic model and these platforms, or platfospheres, are identified. The second part explores the fundamental difference between the "genetic code" at the centre of the semiosphere (as conceived by Lotman), and the computer code and commercial algorithms at the core of the platfospheres that are responsible for their cultural operation. Then the parallels are examined that arise between the past cultural reality, in which the intellectual elite and academics were the driving force of culture, and the contemporary proactive (or even aggressive) core of the platfospheres, in which secret and patent-protected algorithms shape a cultural reality exclusively motivated by the logic of commercial success.
        Artiklis käsitletakse digikultuuri nii üldiste kultuurisemiootika vahendite abil kui ka konkreetselt semiosfääri mudelit rakendades. Suuremat osa maailma rahvastikust ümb - ritseb praeguseks digikultuur. Artikli esimeses osas vaadeldakse rabavaid sarnasusi Web 2.0 platvormide ja semiosfääri vahel ning tuvastatakse ekvivalentsused (Lotmani) klassikalise semiootilise mudeli ning nende platvormide ehk platfosfääride vahel. Teises osas käsitletakse fundamentaalset erinevust ühelt poolt (Lotmani mõistes) semiosfääri keskmes asuva "geneetilise koodi" ning teisalt platfosfääride tuumas asuvate ja nende kultuurilist toimimist tagavate kommertslike algoritmide ja arvutikoodide vahel. Seejärel vaadeldakse paralleele, mis tekivad kõrvutades mineviku kultuurireaalsust, milles kultuuri liikuma panevaks jõuks olid intellektuaalne eliit ning teadlaskogukond, ning tänapäevaste platfosfääride proaktiivset (või isegi agressiivset) tuuma, milles salajased, kaitstud patentidega algoritmid kujundavad ainuüksi kommertsliku edukuse loogikast motiveeritud kultuurilist reaalsust.
        В этой статье цифровая культура исследуется с помощью инструментов семиотики культуры и, в частности, с помощью модели семиосферы. Большая часть населения мира в данный момент окружена цифровой культурой. В первой части статьи отмечается поразительное сходство между платформами Web 2.0 и семиосферой и выявляется эквивалентность классической семиотической модели Лотмана этим платформам или «платфосферам». Во второй части рассматривается фундамен- тальное различие между «генетическим кодом» в центре лотмановской семиосферы и компьютерным кодом и коммерческими алгоритмами в центре платфосферы, которые обеспечивают их функционирование в культуре. Затем прослеживаются параллели, возникающие при сопоставлении реалий культуры прошлого, когда интеллектуальная элита и ученые были движущей силой культуры, и современным проактивным (или даже агрессивным) ядром платфосфер, в котором секретные и защищенные патентами алгоритмы формируют культурную реальность, мотиви- рованную исключительно логикой коммерческого успеха.
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