Alin Olteanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alin Olteanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alin |
| FAMILY NAME | Olteanu |
| SIGNATURE | OLTEANU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | RWTH Aachen University , Aachen , Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A pandemic of desire: The entanglement of social and biomedical contagion on social media during Covid-19
While the emergence of social media rendered ‘virality’ a common buzzword, popular and scholarly conceptions of the term dichotomize virality into (online) social and (offline) biomedical contagion. We trace a line of thought, from Gabriel Tarde’s classic study on imitation as social phenomenon, to Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptualization of the rhizome and to contemporary research on virality to develop an encompassing notion of contagion that c…
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Optimistic and Pessimistic Views
Semiotics and its Masters: Volume 2
Semiotics has ever-changing vistas in consonance with changes in the ever-increasing complexity of life on Planet Earth. This book presents cutting-edge work in semiotics, projecting developments in the future of the field. Authored by leading semioticians, Semiotics and its Masters, Volume 2 contains essays on learning, transdisciplinarity, science, scaffolding, narrative, selfhood, ecosemiotics, agency, cybersemiotics, pornography, nostalgia, l…
Biosemiotics for postdigital living: The implications of the implications
The postdigital condition is discussed from the perspective of Paul Cobley’s biosemiotic approach to culture. While semiotics is often concerned with cultural criticism, there has been no explicit biosemiotic approach to culture, until only recently with Cobley unfurling such a research program. The key to this is the biosemiotic notion of modeling , which accounts for co-evolutionary processes encompassing biology and culture. This approach resp…
Peircean anti-psychologism and learning theory
Taking influence from Peirce’s phenomenological categories (Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness), a notion of what we call bottom-up modeling has become increasingly significant in research areas interested in learning, cognition, and development. Here, following a particular reading of Peircean semiotics (cf. Deacon, Terrence. 1997. The symbolic species: The co-evolution of language and the brain . London and New York: W. W. Norton; Sebeok, Thomas …
A topic network analysis of the system turn in the environmental sciences
A semiotic comparison of mass media representations of the swine flu and Covid-19 pandemics: Observing Narcissus Narcosis
This paper compares the coverage of the H1N1 and Covid-19 pandemics in ten prominent US daily newspapers. We selected articles that reference disease-specific keywords, published in the period between the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization and the first peak in laboratory- confirmed cases in the USA (20550 articles on Covid-19 and 1705 articles on H1N1). We analyzed the dataset via t…
Rethinking educational theory and practice in times of visual media: Learning as image-concept integration
We propose a new relational direction in higher education that acknowledges external and internal images as integrated in thinking and learning. We expand educational theory and practice that commonly rely on discrete conceptual developments that exclude images. Our argument epistemologically relies on certain semiotic views that consider the role of iconic signs and iconicity (meaning making by the virtue of similarity) as significant in relatio…
Readings in Numanities
The implications for education of Peirce's agapist principle
In his divisions of science, Peirce placed pedagogy in the branch of practical sciences. This means that the profession of teaching can only be meliorated by experience, through practice. However, I argue that a holistic look at Peirce's semiotics reveals an implicit philosophy of education. The key lies in understanding his account of experience in the context of his theory of evolution. By experience Peirce meant semiosis (action of signs), not…
Rethinking educational theory and practice in times of visual media: Learning as image-concept integration
We propose a new relational direction in higher education that acknowledges external and internal images as integrated in thinking and learning. We expand educational theory and practice that commonly rely on discrete conceptual developments that exclude images. Our argument epistemologically relies on certain semiotic views that consider the role of iconic signs and iconicity (meaning making by the virtue of similarity) as significant in relatio…
The implications for education of Peirce's agapist principle
In his divisions of science, Peirce placed pedagogy in the branch of practical sciences. This means that the profession of teaching can only be meliorated by experience, through practice. However, I argue that a holistic look at Peirce's semiotics reveals an implicit philosophy of education. The key lies in understanding his account of experience in the context of his theory of evolution. By experience Peirce meant semiosis (action of signs), not…
The implications for education of Peirce's agapist principle
In his divisions of science, Peirce placed pedagogy in the branch of practical sciences. This means that the profession of teaching can only be meliorated by experience, through practice. However, I argue that a holistic look at Peirce's semiotics reveals an implicit philosophy of education. The key lies in understanding his account of experience in the context of his theory of evolution. By experience Peirce meant semiosis (action of signs), not…
Readings in Numanities
Rethinking educational theory and practice in times of visual media: Learning as image-concept integration
We propose a new relational direction in higher education that acknowledges external and internal images as integrated in thinking and learning. We expand educational theory and practice that commonly rely on discrete conceptual developments that exclude images. Our argument epistemologically relies on certain semiotic views that consider the role of iconic signs and iconicity (meaning making by the virtue of similarity) as significant in relatio…
Peircean anti-psychologism and learning theory
Taking influence from Peirce’s phenomenological categories (Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness), a notion of what we call bottom-up modeling has become increasingly significant in research areas interested in learning, cognition, and development. Here, following a particular reading of Peircean semiotics (cf. Deacon, Terrence. 1997. The symbolic species: The co-evolution of language and the brain . London and New York: W. W. Norton; Sebeok, Thomas …
A topic network analysis of the system turn in the environmental sciences
A semiotic comparison of mass media representations of the swine flu and Covid-19 pandemics: Observing Narcissus Narcosis
This paper compares the coverage of the H1N1 and Covid-19 pandemics in ten prominent US daily newspapers. We selected articles that reference disease-specific keywords, published in the period between the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization and the first peak in laboratory- confirmed cases in the USA (20550 articles on Covid-19 and 1705 articles on H1N1). We analyzed the dataset via t…
Semiotics and its Masters: Volume 2
Semiotics has ever-changing vistas in consonance with changes in the ever-increasing complexity of life on Planet Earth. This book presents cutting-edge work in semiotics, projecting developments in the future of the field. Authored by leading semioticians, Semiotics and its Masters, Volume 2 contains essays on learning, transdisciplinarity, science, scaffolding, narrative, selfhood, ecosemiotics, agency, cybersemiotics, pornography, nostalgia, l…
Biosemiotics for postdigital living: The implications of the implications
The postdigital condition is discussed from the perspective of Paul Cobley’s biosemiotic approach to culture. While semiotics is often concerned with cultural criticism, there has been no explicit biosemiotic approach to culture, until only recently with Cobley unfurling such a research program. The key to this is the biosemiotic notion of modeling , which accounts for co-evolutionary processes encompassing biology and culture. This approach resp…
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Optimistic and Pessimistic Views
A pandemic of desire: The entanglement of social and biomedical contagion on social media during Covid-19
While the emergence of social media rendered ‘virality’ a common buzzword, popular and scholarly conceptions of the term dichotomize virality into (online) social and (offline) biomedical contagion. We trace a line of thought, from Gabriel Tarde’s classic study on imitation as social phenomenon, to Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptualization of the rhizome and to contemporary research on virality to develop an encompassing notion of contagion that c…
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Semiotics (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Digital Education and Society (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Semiosis (3 works)