A SEMIOTIC TECHNOLOGY STUDY IN WEB-BASED APPLICATION = A SEMIOTIC TECHNOLOGY STUDY IN WEB-BASED APPLICATION

MUHAMMAD TAUFIK AL HAKIM YAUMI. A Semiotic Study in Web-based Application (supervised by Fathu Rahman and Harlinah Sahib).
This research explores the field of semiotic technology within web-based applications, with a specific focus on the analysis of how technology constructs meaning and influences society. The study employs a comprehensive review of related literature to examine the role of semiotic technology and recent analyses of technology, drawing upon relevant and up-to-date theories from diverse scholarly resources. The research data obtained through E-RES provided by Perpustakaan Nasional, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database, Google-based web search, Google Scholar, and a database for the national library of Indonesia. The research results indicates that the types of semiotic technology applications primarily addressed in the literature include those used for educational contexts, business purposes, personal publications, and social interactions. The researcher found that the functions of the application construct meaning in semiotic technology studies by investigating the principles to start understanding how the meaning is created in digital technology. The researcher classified the resources about semiotic functions by identifying these principles. The functions are Semiotic Resources, Semiotic Regimes, Multimodality, and Discourse. The findings of this research are expected to contribute to the broader understanding of semiotic technology and its impact on society, shedding light on the potential for meaning-making and the ways in which technology shapes and is utilized by society.

Keywords: Semiotic Technology, Web-based Applications, Semiotic Resources, Semiotic Regimes, Multimodality, Discourse