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Full Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and co-coordinator of the international project AAA (Augmented Artwork Analysis, ANR-FNR). Formerly Professor at Université Lyon 2 and Director of the Joint Research Unit ICAR (CNRS–ENS de Lyon), he develops a semiotics of culture focused on linguistic mediation, multimodal communication, and the subjective and institutional management of meaning. He is the author of eleven monographs and has co-edited several international volumes on semiotic theory and cultural practices of meaning production.

Professora Titular da PUC-SP, atua na Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Semiótica da qual é coordenadora. Co diretora do Centro de Pesquisas Sociossemióticas - CPS. Entre os eixos de investigação estão semiótica da arte, das mídias, semiótica, corpo e roupa e semiótica das práticas de vida nas urbes contemporâneas.

Philosopher of media, communication, and educational technology, and an internationally recognised leader in visual and multimodal research methods in higher education. Her work advances critical visual semiotics, as well as relational and sociomaterial conceptualisations of knowledge and meaning-making. She co-directs the Centre for Social Futures and serves on the Executive Committee for Great Britain of the IASS/AIS.

His research focuses on cultural semiotics, with particular emphasis on religion, visual cultures, and their digital developments. He currently investigates theoretical frameworks for modeling cultural change in semiotic terms; processes of meaning transformation at cultural frontiers; and semiotic ideologies at the crossroad between material and digital cultures.

Linguistic anthropologist whose research has focused on the semiotics of youth culture, fashion and counterfeiting, film and mass media, and linguistic practice in Tamil Nadu, India. He is the author of Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India (2016, University of Chicago Press; translated into Italian as Fare Stile, 2022 Raffaello Cortina Editore) and Onscreen/Offscreen (2023, University of Toronto Press).

Full professor of Semiotics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Bologna, where he is the coordinator of the PhD Programme in Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics and the scientific coordinator of the International Centre for Humanities "Umberto Eco". Author of five books and over a hundred publications in international journals, he has been the Principal Investigator for two national research projects (PRIN) and five European projects (Horizon, Marie Curie and Erasmus+). He is the president of the Italian Society of Philosophy of Language. His last book in English is Cognitive Semiotics: Integrating Signs, Minds, Meaning, and Cognition.

Professor in image theory and head of the department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti” at the University of Milan “La Statale”, where he coordinates the research center EXT (“Extended Realities”). His studies focus on image theories and visual studies, virtual and augmented reality, memorialisation and monumentality. Fellow of various international institutions, in 2018 he has been awarded the Wissenschaftspreis der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung. Among his recent publications, the volumes At the Threshold of the Image. From Narcissus to Virtual Reality (Zone Books 2025) and Tele-Monuments. Memorial Practices in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence (Deutscher Kunstverlag - de Gruyter 2025).

Associate Professor at São Paulo State University (Unesp), in the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Classical Languages and in the Graduate Program in Linguistics and Portuguese Language at FCL/Araraquara. CNPq researcher and leader of the Unesp Research Group in Semiotics (GPS-Unesp); his research focuses on semiotics of discourse and historiography of the language sciences. In visual semiotics, he has developed and supervised studies on theories of comics and other syncretic semiotics.

Professor at the Institute of Arts and the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, where he coordinates the ICONICITY RESEARCH GROUP. He is also an associate researcher at the Department of Linguistics at the Free State University in South Africa. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of several books, special issues, and scientific articles in the areas of Cognitive Semiotics, Biosemiotics, Digital Humanities, and Intermediality Studies. Website.

Livre-docente em Semiótica do discurso, é Doutora em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa pela UNESP (2009). Foi Coordenadora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras da Unesp, câmpus de Araraquara (SP), no período de maio de 2021 a maio 2025. Tem se dedicado ao estudo das práticas semióticas e das formas de vida e do estatuto do texto em semiótica. Seus projetos atuais estão centrados no estudo das identidades minorizadas, nos problemas relativos à construção dos discursos de classe, gênero e raça e no problema do viés algoritmo.