Multimodal Semiotics and Collaborative Design

The analytical matrix for initial coding
Habitus of Social Actors Place Semiotics Interaction Order Multimodal Semiotics
ACTORS PLACES PRACTICES DESIGNS
Experiential (ideational)
(Co-)designers as (socially situated and
motivated) sign-makers
Affordances and constraints for mediated
presence and content generation in SL
Chronotope (movements/traversals between
and/or within places) and Heterochrony
(managing time-scales) in content creation
Use and Reach of Modes - Layout and spatial
linking of information - Presence and
navigation
Logical (ideational)
(Their) cultural resources as semiotic
resources (actors as agents of semiotic
change)
(Virtual) places and platforms as semiotic
Communication and evolution of ideas:
resources for code preference, inscription and
Collaborative design as socal semiotic work
emplacement of signs
Virtual places and artifacts as processes of
multimodal semiosis (of meaning and form) -
Metaphoricity and signs of realism
Interest-based participation: Design teams as
compositions of (individual) styles, skills and
motivations
Affordances and constraints for co-presence
and collaborative design in SL
Working and building together in virtual space -
Designing for and managing social presence
feedback (designer/user interaction)
Interpersonal
Textual
Reflections
Managing plurality of resources: Networks,
avatars and agents as actors
Managing plurality of platforms: SL as a place
to make places within places ('place of places'
in context)
Semiotic Aggregates: Managing plurality of
discourses - Orchestration of collaborative
practices in in time and space
Managing plurality of 'sense-makings': Virtual
places as 'open texts': Imagining avatarmediated
(model-) user experience (in
designed places)
Habitus of Social Actors Place Semiotics Interaction Order Multimodal Semiotics
Theoretical
(1) Actors and their semiotic (meaning)
potentials (2) avatars and mediation of
collaboration between spaces
(1) SL as a place to make places between
places (2) Balance of usability/complexity and
freedom to crate
(1) from affordances and constraints to
potentialities and specificities (signifiers)
(1) spatiality,interactivity and virtuality as
modes (2) affordances as signification
(meaning/action potentials) (3) design and
multimodal cohesion in virtual place-making
Methodological
How discourses are embedded in and
transformed within places
post-structruralist perspective on multimodal
sign-making in response to the systemic
functional theory: why it is hard to analyze
place-making in terms if systems and
functions, but easier to talk in terms of
affordances as meaning/action potentials