The city as the ideological space – the analysis of street art accompanying current protests in Chile Cover Image

Miasto jako przestrzeń ideologiczna – analiza sztuki ulicznej towarzyszącej aktualnym protestom w Chile
The city as the ideological space – the analysis of street art accompanying current protests in Chile

Author(s): Karolina Lachowska, Marcin Pielużek
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: South America;Chile;street art;a mural;semiotics;social communication;protest;

Summary/Abstract: The following paper presents an attempt at a semiotic analysis of socially and politically-oriented street art in the capital of Chile. Based on Charles Sanders Peirce’s theory of semiotics, Siegfried J. Schmidt’s constructivist communication theory, and using the methods of semiotic and discursive analysis by Gillian Rose, a reconstruction of the semantics of murals has been made. Murals are treated here as specific semiotic codes and are linked with social-political-ideological aspects. As a reference point, a mural has been chosen as a communication tool which is typical of Latin America, and also the codes typical in this area, which resulted from previous analyses.

  • Issue Year: 12/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 93-121
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish