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2025

Friedman, A., and Thellefsen, M. (2025). The Peircean theory of AI: Advancing text generation through Peirce’s triadic model, speculative grammar, and methodeutic. Digital Age in Semiotics & Communications. Vol. VIII, 2025, 50–70,

2025

Thellefsen, M. and Friedman, A. “Knowledge without a knower? Domain analysis in the age of machinic interpretation.” AI & Society (2025)

2025

Thellefsen, M and Friedman, A. “From realism and socio-cognitivism to AI constructs: enhancing domain analysis through artificial intelligence?” Information Research, An International Electronic Journal (May 19, 2025)

2023

Thellefsen, M., Friedman, A. “Icons and metaphors in visual communication: The relevance of Peirce’s theory of iconicity for the analysis of visual communication” Public Journal of Semiotics (10:2)

2022

Friedman, A., Thellefsen, M. “Big data visualization through the lens of Peirce’s visual sign theory” Punctum. – International Journal of Semiotics (08)

Friedman’s Publications

2018

Friedman, A. “Digitizing Peircean semiotics to analyze students’ peer-review comments: classroom use of an application in open-source R.” Social Semiotics 38(5)

2017

Friedman, A. & Feichtinger, E. “Peirce’s sign theory as an open-source R package.” Signs – International Journal of Semiotics Vol 8.

Thellefsen’s Publications

2026

Nurma Dewi, A., Sørensen, B., & Thellefsen, M. M. (2026). Toward a Peircean-enriched Phenomenon-Based Classification – ontological foundations and semiotic mediations. Journal of Documentation82(1), 120–135. 

2025

Thellefsen, MM (2025). 
The elusive essence: a philosophical interrogation of phenomenon-based knowledge organization . 
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (JASIST) , 
76 (13), 1743-1753. 

2025

Thellefsen, M. M., Sørensen, B., & Nurma Dewi, A. (2025). Generative AI and the semiosic reconfiguration of knowledge organization – a preliminary exploration. Journal of Documentation81(5-6), 1181–1199.

2025

Thellefsen, M. M., Dewi, A. N., & Sørensen, B. (2025). The meaning of prompts and the prompts of meaning: Semiotic reflections and modelling.

2024

Sørensen, B., & Thellefsen, M. M. (2024). The visual blue brain metaphor for AI. Digital Age in Semiotics & Communication7, 21-45.

2024

Thellefsen, M. M. (2024). Signifying Unity: Exploring the Interplay of Semiotics, Universalism, and Pluralism in Information Science. Journal of Documentation80(4), 922-938.

2024

Sørensen, B., Thellefsen, M. M., & Thellefsen, T. L. (2024). Assistive technologies and habit development: A semiotic model of technological mediation. Language and Semiotic Studies10(1), 43-64.

2024

Thellefsen, MM (2024). 
Pragmatic and Structuralist Semiotics: A Comparative Analysis of Their Utility in Knowledge Organization Systems . In W. Lu, THB Barros, L. An, & D. Martínez-Ávila (Eds.), 
Knowledge Organization for Resilience in Times of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International ISKO Conference, 2024, Wuhan, China (pp. 233-245). Ergon-Verlag.