On the Digital Semiosphere

John Hartley is John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, Australia; previously founding Dean of Creative Industries at QUT, inaugural Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales. He has published over 30 books on cultural, media, communication and journalism studies, and more recently creative economy and cultural science, with Google Scholar citations approaching 40,000.

Indrek Ibrus is Professor at Tallinn University, Estonia and the head of Center of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT: http://medit.tlu.ee/). His main strand of research is media innovation and the co-evolutionary effects of textual, social and economic dynamics in shaping the new forms of media. He is the co-editor (with Carlos Scolari) of Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions (2012).

Maarja Ojamaa is a research fellow at Tallinn University, Estonia and a member of MEDIT (http://medit.tlu.ee/). Her research has followed the paradigm of Lotmanian cultural semiotics, exploring transmediality, both on the micro level as a textual phenomenon and on the macro level as a mechanism of cultural auto-communication. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Sign System Studies, International Journal of Communication.