Semiotics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Paolo Peverini is a full professor of Semiotics in the Department of Political Science at LUISS University in Rome. His research engages with semiotic theory and critically examines the relationships between society, culture, technology, and consumption. He is the author and co-author of several books and numerous articles published in leading international journals. His recent work investigates the reciprocal influence between Bruno Latours reflections on the paradoxes of modernity and contemporary theories of signification. His latest publications include Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn. An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning (Cham: Springer, 2024) and Smart Objects as Social Actors: Towards a New Society of Objects between Semiotics and Actor-Network Theory, Versus (VS), 2/2021, pp. 285-298. He currently serves as General Secretary of the Romance Federation of Semiotics (FedRoS) and is a former Vice-President of the Italian Association for Semiotic Studies (AISS). In 2017, he was appointed Consultant to the Dicastery for Communication by Pope Francis. Dario Mangano is Full Professor of Semiotics at the University of Palermo, where he directs the Bachelors and Masters degree programs in Communication. He teaches Semiotics of Advertising and Brand Strategy and leads a Laboratory in Audiovisual Language. At the same university, he also directs the Laboratory of Communication. His research interests include design, advertising, photography, and gastronomy. His most recent publications in English include Semiotics of Food, published in Zeitschrift für Semiotik (2022); This Is Not Vivian: The Photographer as a Form of Life, in Versus (2019); and Semiotics of Animals in Culture, in Zoosemiotics 2.0 (with G. Marrone, Springer, 2018). He previously served as President of the Italian Association for Semiotic Studies (AISS).

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