Study days / Workshop “ SEMIOVERSE: Semiotics of digital worlds ”, AAP MSH Bx 2022

Approaches to digital cultures : November 29, MSH Bx, Room 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Organized by Ludovic Châtenet, Bordeaux Montaigne University / MICA

Contact: ludovic.chatenet@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr

In recent years, and more than before, the internet has given another dimension to the existing links between the “real” world and the “virtual” world, particularly through digital platforms, social networks and online video games. semioverse project proposes to approach the current digital space as the new terrain of a semio-anthropology of “digital collectives or cultures”. The two study days organized in this framework will aim to study how immersive “virtual worlds” allow groups of individuals to form a society, to constitute their own cultures around common beliefs and references.

This first day entitled will aim to establish (and discuss) the conditions and principles of a semio-anthropology which would seek its specificities in the study of “virtual cultures” and the “digital world” through their discursive productions in order to circumscribe their value systems, their attitude (or ethos) in relation to a common belief which identifies them. In other words, it will be a question of opening a methodological discussion on the approach to “digital cultures”, in particular: how are online communities structured around a common universe?