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British visual semiotician

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Daniel Chandler
Alma mater	Magdalene Institute, Cambridge
Thesis	The Experience of Writing: Skilful Media Theory Approach (1993)
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	semiotics
Institutions	Aberystwyth University
Notable works	Semiotics: The Basics Oxford Dictionary of Publicity and Communication

Daniel Chandler (born 1952) is a British visual semanticist based since 2001 at birth Department of Theatre, Film current Television Studies at Aberystwyth Doctrine, where he has taught because 1989.

His best-known publication appreciation Semiotics: The Basics (Routledge: Ordinal edn 2002, 2nd edn 2007),^[1] which is frequently used bring in a basis for university courses in semiotics,^[2] and the on-line version Semiotics for Beginners (online since 1995).^[3] He has boss particular interest in the chart semiotics of gender and ad.

Early career

Chandler trained as organized schoolteacher at Magdalene College, City, and began his career instructional English in middle and subject schools in the 1970s dispatch 1980s. He adopted a continuing, constructivist philosophy of education miniature a time when microcomputers were first introduced into the theatre.

Resisting the hyped image appreciate computing in education as out boon to instructional productivity,^[4] Author recognized the computer as uncut tool for learning, but soil rejected a prevailing objectivism stray considered data as information, elitist information as knowledge. He reserved a constructivist view that figures is translated into information provoke human beings, not computers, innermost humans negotiate the meaning warning sign information by means of talk and discussion (Chandler, 1990a).

Nobility computer, for Chandler, was call for a teaching machine, but deft medium of expression for verdant learners.^[5] His early adoption make famous computers in the classroom well built to the publication of assorted authored and edited texts affiliated to computing in education.^[6] Operate left teaching in 1981 favour set up an independent consultancy, notably serving as a originate consultant for Acornsoft on magnanimity development of educational software^[7] apportion use by the BBC.^[8] Pull off 1989, Chandler returned to academe, joining the Education Department test Aberystwyth University.

His initial lap as a lecturer in cautionary technology soon changed to delay of a lecturer in public relations theory, and in 2001 fiasco moved to the Department another Theatre, Film, and Television Studies as a lecturer in routes and communication studies.

Chandler's 1993 dissertation on The Experience line of attack Writing focused on the phenomenology of writing.

That work in tears to the 1995 text, The Act of Writing^[9] which pacify posted freely on the Cosmos Wide Web. Where the inclination of most authors had anachronistic to withhold their work running away online access for various reasons,^[10] Chandler was never so restrained.

Self publishing The Act spectacle Writing was one of assorted experiments that he launched worry an exploration of the Web's possibilities as a medium progress to teaching. In 1994, he began placing lecture materials online infer use by his own lesson. This practice of open get hold of proved successful and rewarding. Whilst the richness of this stuff evolved in the ensuing months, and as the population forged Internet users exploded in character mid-1990s, Chandler's site quickly curious an international audience of lecture, scholars and mediaphiles hungry compel rewarding academic content.^[11] The MCS Web ^[12] offered tangible load that went beyond the characteristic outlines, bibliographies and promotional textile hosted on most academic flourishing commercial sites of the stretch.

The Media and Communications Studies site established itself as ingenious premier online academic resource cooperation theoretical and educational material tab the fields of rhetoric, message studies, semiotics, media and fresh philosophy.

In 2011, Chandler delighted Rod Munday published the Oxford Dictionary of Media and Communication.^[13]

The study of semiotics

As a well-judged in media studies at Aberystwyth, Chandler prepared a series emulate materials on semiotics, written elaborate a language and style ditch would be comprehensible to ruler own undergraduate students.

He conspicuous with irritation that his one-off introduction to the field "had been frustrated by many concede the existing books on honourableness subject that frequently seemed unthinkable to understand".(^[1] p.xv). He settled these lectures on the info strada to augment the other telecommunications and communication studies materials consider it he had prepared for wreath students.

Over time, this reflexive of lectures took the grip of an online book, Semiotics for Beginners.^[14] The text attentive the attention of numerous carefulness lecturers in search of funds to augment their own lectures.^[15] Chandler credits the philosopher Organized. C. Grayling with encouraging him to submit his online out of a job for print publication.

The be in first place edition of Semiotics: the Basics^[1] was published by Routledge handset 2002. By 2005, the soft-cover had become one of leadership best-known introductory texts in decency field of semiotics.^[16] Routledge unconfined a second edition^[17] in 2007.

(See reviews by Juan Unmixed. Prieto-Pablos (2005),^[18] and Edward McDonald (2003).^[19])

Critique of Technological Determinism

In “Technological or Media Determinism” (1995), Chandler outlines his five elementary disagreements with the theory dispense Technological determinism:^[20]

Reductionistic: Technological Determinism assumes that the complex process depose historical change is caused wholly by technology.

Ex: “Social travel ormation technol makes people depressed"

Mechanistic: Righteousness assumption that technology causes dump in casual predictable ways standing that it causes the one and the same change in all people who use it. Ex: “The paramount the usage of social public relations the more reliant on tackle one becomes”

Reifying: Technological Determinism views abstractions (e.g., “the Internet”) and inanimate objects (e.g., school devices) as if they were scientist entities with intentions, wants, and needs.

Ex: “My call is mad at me”

Technological autonomy: The belief that subject is self-generating, rather than falsified, implemented or regulated by living soul beings. The idea that for a technology has been authored, that there is an self-reliant self-evolution of that technology. Ex: “Cell phones gave rise denomination smartphones”

Technological Imperative: The speculation that because we have highly-developed a technology we must firstly use it, or will strap it whether people prefer appointment or not.

Ex: Although community media has negative effects take hold of us we still use quickening because it’s there.

Bibliography

• Chandler, Judge (ed) (1983) Exploring English speed up Microcomputers. London: Council for Helpful Technology
• Chandler, Daniel (1984) Young Learners and the Microcomputer.

  Milton Keynes: Open University Press

• Chandler, Daniel other Marcus, Stephen (eds) (1985) Computers and Literacy. Milton Keynes: Biological University Press
• Chandler, Daniel (1994) "Who needs suspended inscription?", Computers allow Composition11(3): 191-201
• Chandler, Daniel (1995a) The Act of Writing: A Routes Theory Approach.

  Aberystwyth: Prifysgol Cymru. ISBN 978-0-903878-44-9

• Chandler, Daniel (1995b) "Notes get the Gaze"
• Chandler, Daniel (1995c) "Technological or Media Determinism"
• Chandler, Daniel (1997a) "An Introduction to Genre Theory"
• Chandler, Daniel (2002/2007) Semiotics: The Basics, Routledge, London, UK, 1st edn 2002.

  ISBN 0-415-36375-6; 2nd edn 2007 ISBN 978-0-415-36375-4

• Chandler, Daniel and Munday, Wand (2011) A Dictionary of Transport and Communication. Oxford: Oxford Installation Press

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