Faculty Information - OLTEANU Alin

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OLTEANU Alin
Department Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies

Position Associate Professor

■ Education

1.	2011/09～2015/04	〔Doctorial Course〕 Semiotics of Education, School of Education, Roehampton University, Completed, PhD
2.	2009/09～2011/08	〔Master Course〕 Cognitive Semiotics, Aarhus University, Completed
3.	2006/09～2009/06	, BA

■ Current specialized field

Philosophy and ethics, Education, Linguistics (Key Word：Semiotics; Media studies;)

■ Books and theses

1.	2025/12/31	Article	Technological futures in semiotics: The year 2024 in review Sign Systems Studies 53(3/4),pp.594-610 (Collaboration)
2.	2025/06/12	Article	Of contagious rhizomes and remote carriers: A theory of infection for the Network Age Information, Communication & Society 29(4),pp.1081-1097 (Collaboration)
3.	2025/05/08	Article	Semioethic horizons: Humanism of Alterity and Semiotics of technology Biosemiotics 18,pp.387-395 (Collaboration)
4.	2025/05/04	Book	The relevance of Andrew Stables’ interpretative notion of learning /,pp.169-187 (Single)
5.	2025/04/22	Book	Introducing Imagination Technologies: Making Media Futures and Future-Making Media /,pp.1-14 (Collaboration)
6.	2025/01/01	Article	Iconic imagination in modeling: a semiotic approach to scientific inquiry. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 31(3-4),pp.35-68 (Single)
7.	2025/01/01	Article	Juggling molecules. Toward An Archeology of Computational Tools in Chemistry Cybernetics & Human Knowing 31(3-4),pp.129-144 (Collaboration)
8.	2025	Article	Dumb intelligence? Translation as technological mediation Sign Systems Studies 53(3/4),pp.357-397 (Collaboration)
9.	2024/09/12	Article	Postdigital literacies in everyday life and pedagogic practices. P Postdigital Science & Education 6,pp.796-820 (Collaboration)
10.	2024/06/01	Article	Software in science is ubiquitous, yet overlooked Nature Computational Science 4,pp.465-468 (Collaboration)
11.	2024/05/22	Article	Utterance-genre-lifeworld and sign-habit-Umwelt compared as phe-nomenologies. Integrating Socio- and Biosemiotics Biosemiotics 17,pp.523-546 (Collaboration)
12.	2024/03/04	Article	Transhumanism, Society and Education: An Edusemiotic Approach Studies in Philosophy and Education 43,pp.177-193 (Collaboration)
13.	2024	Book	Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives -(-),pp.--- (Collaboration)
14.	2023/09/04	Article	“Have you not heard, my soul [...]?”: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text Sign Systems Studies 51(2),pp.301-328 (Collaboration)
15.	2023/08/23	Book	An overlooked episode in the history of semiotics: The iconoclast controversy and its relevance for the iconic turn Sign, method and the sacred: New directions in semiotic methodologies for the study of religion /,pp.125-146 (Single)
16.	2023/08/18	Article	The Challenge of Postdigital Literacy: Extending Multimodality and Social Semiotics for a New Age Postdigital Science and Education 6,pp.572-594 (Collaboration)
17.	2023/03/14	Article	Biosemiotics for postdigital living: The implications of the implications. Chinese Semiotic Studies 19(1),pp.161-188 (Collaboration)
18.	2023/01/01	Book	Biosemiotic systems theory: An embodied and ecological approach to culture /,pp.75-98 (Collaboration)
19.	2022/12/01	Book	Semiotics and digital humanities 4,pp.67-86 (Collaboration)
20.	2022/12/01	Book	Semiotics in learning and education /,pp.129-148 (Collaboration)
21.	2022/11/03	Article	Learning as becoming conscious: A note on Jablonka and Ginsburg’s notion of learning Biosemiotics 15(3),pp.457-467 (Single)
22.	2022/09/27	Article	Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2021 Biosemiotics 15,pp.395-399 (Collaboration)
23.	2022/01/04	Book	A Proposal for a Biosemiotic Approach to Digitalization: Literacy as Modeling Competence 65-85 Biosemiotics and Evolution: The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism /,pp.65-85 (Single)
24.	2021/11/18	Article	Multimodal Modeling: Bridging Biosemiotics and Social Semiotics. Biosemiotics 14,pp.783-805 (Single)
25.	2021/09/22	Book	Cultural Pluralism and Communication Oxford Bibliographies /,pp.1 (Single)
26.	2021/06/01	Article	A semiotic comparison of mass media representations of the swine flu and Covid-19 pandemics: Observing Narcissus Narcosis Punctum 7(1),pp.45-65 (Collaboration)
27.	2021/02/05	Article	A topic network analysis of the system turn in the environmental sciences. Scientometrics 126,pp.2107-2140 (Collaboration)
28.	2021/01/29	Article	A “Strong” Approach to Sustainability Literacy: Embodied Ecology and Media Philosophies 6(14),pp.1-20 (Collaboration)
29.	2021/01/14	Article	Peirce’s anti-psychologism and learning theory Chinese Semiotic Studies 17(1),pp.175-197 (Collaboration)
30.	2020/08/09	Article	Rethinking educational theory and practice in times of visual media: Learning as image-concept integration Educational Philosophy and Theory 53(6),pp.597-612 (Collaboration)
31.	2020/05/27	Article	Naturalizing Models: New Perspectives in a Peircean Key Biosemiotics 13,pp.179-197 (Collaboration)
32.	2020/01/15	Article	Translation from a contemporary media perspective: avoiding culturalism and monolingualism Social Semiotics 32(1),pp.143-161 (Single)
33.	2019/12/31	Article	Learning and knowing as semiosis: Extending the conceptual apparatus of semiotics Sign Systems Studies 47(3/4),pp.352-381 (Collaboration)
34.	2019/12/31	Article	The case for a semiotic method in Earth system science: Semantic networks of environmental research Sign Systems Studies 47(3/4),pp.552-589 (Collaboration)
35.	2019/12/13	Article	Schematic Enough to be Safe from Kidnappers: The Semiotics of Charles Peirce as Transitionalist Pragmatism. Journal of Philosophy of Education 53,pp.788-806 (Single)
36.	2019/05/14	Book	Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective /,pp.--- (Single)
37.	2019/05/11	Article	Education, Signs, and the History of Ideas 15(2),pp.275-288 (Collaboration)
38.	2018/12/31	Article	Learning and Adaptation from a Semiotic Perspective Sign Systems Studies 46(4),pp.409-434 (Collaboration)
39.	2018/06/11	Book	Multimodal Propositions and Metaphors in the Movie Submarine: An Application of Peirce’s Doctrine of Dicisigns Meaning & Co.: The Interdisciplinarity of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality /,pp.105-126 (Single)
40.	2018/04/25	Article	A Short Introduction to Edusemiotics Chinese Semiotic Studies 14(2),pp.245-260 (Collaboration)
41.	2018/03/26	Article	Abduction, Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Interpretations Human Arenas 1(2),pp.206-222 (Collaboration)
42.	2018/01/01	Book	Semiotic Theory of Learning: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Education /,pp.--- (Collaboration)
43.	2017/12/02	Book	Semiotics as a Proposal for a Numanistic Educational Programme Readings in Numanities: Volume 1 /,pp.3-17 (Single)
44.	2016/10/18	Book	Reading History: Education, Semiotics and Edusemiotics Edusemiotics – A Handbook /,pp.193-205 (Single)
45.	2016/06/29	Article	The Implications for Education of Peirce’s agapist principle Semiotica 212,pp.59-80 (Single)
46.	2016/05/07	Article	Predicating from an early age: Edusemiotics and the potential of children’s preconceptions Studies in Philosophy and Education 35(6),pp.621-640 (Collaboration)
47.	2016/03/11	Article	Review of Edusemiotics: Semiotic Philosophy as Educational Foundation Social Semiotics 26(5),pp.582-586 (Single)
48.	2015/06/01	Book	Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics of Charles Peirce: a Cosmology of Learning and Loving /,pp.--- (Single)
49.	2014/05/12	Article	The semiosic evolution of education Journal of Philosophy of Education 48(3),pp.457-473 (Single)
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■ Academic or professional association memberships

1.		International Association for Cognitive Semiotics
2.		International Association for Semiotic Studies
3.		Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies

■ Qualification and licenses

1.	2015/04/20	PhD
2.	2011/08/31	MA in Cognitive Semiotics

■ JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number

61040340

■ External Researcher ID

orcID	0000-0002-4712-2529
Researcher ID	HSH-9873-2023

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