What is the Public Journal of Semiotics?
The democratization of Internet communication has brought profound transformations in the way people communicate and interact in a wide range of private and public domains (intellectual, political, commercial, sexual, etc.) as well as in the creation, distribution, and management of scholarly knowledge. Instead of top-down forms of editorial organizations with editors in chief and editorial boards, the Internet has made possible bottom-up forms of editorial organizations of academic journals that allow for more active participation of their contributors and readers. The rationale for launching The Public Journal of Semiotics is to face the challenges of these new forms of editorial organization based on bottom-up principles. The emergence of a global scholarly network of semiotic studies has encouraged the founding editors of this journal to propose the extension of existing networks of semioticians to a network of contributors to and readers of a journal with a democratic organization
