The organization of biosemiotics and some challenges for academic inquiry

Claus Emmeche

The organization of biosemiotics and some challenges for academic inquiry

Abstract

What is the position of fields like biosemiotics and cybersemiotics in the organizational landscape of academia influenced by the major trends towards more entrepreneurial modes of organizing research? A description of what has been called ‘post-academic science’ is given, and the para-institutional nature of biosemiotics as an academic field is explored. Furthermore, the chapter addresses the place and character of biosemiotics in the academic landscape by using the typology of Richard Whitley and finds that even though biosemiotics may come out as a borderline case between a fragmented adhocracy and a polycentric oligarchy, there are some peculiarities for this young area of highly cross-disciplinary research when seen as a reputational work organization that makes if difficult to apply a typology for established and relatively well demarcated fields.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	From First to Third via Cybersemiotics. : A Festschrift honoring professor Søren Brier on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Redaktører	Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sørensen, Paul Cobley
Antal sider	25
Udgivelsessted	Frederiksberg
Forlag	Samfundslitteratur
Publikationsdato	2011
Sider	349-375
ISBN (Trykt)	¿978-87-7071-028-2
Status	Udgivet - 2011

Emneord

Det Natur- og Biovidenskabelige Fakultet
videnskabsstudier
videnskabssociologi
biosemiotik

Adgang til dokumentet

http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/cePubl/2011a-BrierFestschrift.pdf

Citationsformater

The organization of biosemiotics and some challenges for academic inquiry. / Emmeche, Claus.
From First to Third via Cybersemiotics.: A Festschrift honoring professor Søren Brier on the occasion of his 60th birthday. red. / Torkild Thellefsen; Bent Sørensen; Paul Cobley. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, 2011. s. 349-375.

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Emmeche, C 2011, The organization of biosemiotics and some challenges for academic inquiry. i T Thellefsen, B Sørensen & P Cobley (red), From First to Third via Cybersemiotics.: A Festschrift honoring professor Søren Brier on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Samfundslitteratur, Frederiksberg, s. 349-375. <http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/cePubl/2011a-BrierFestschrift.pdf>

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