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  1. On semiotics of monument removal: Hypersecuritization as a deproblematization strategy in the Baltics

    Article • Sign Systems Studies, December 2025, University of Tartu Press

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  2. The Role of Affect and History in Russia’s Strategic Conspiracy Narratives in the Context of the War in Ukraine

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  3. POLIITIKASEMIOOTIKA VAADE VANDENÕUTEOORIATELE

    Article • EESTI VABARIIGI PREEMIAD, June 2024, Estonian Academy Publishers

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  4. From strategic depiction of conspiracies to conspiracy theories

    Article • November 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  5. Semiotic Approaches to Conspiracy Theories1

    Article • February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  6. What is political semiotics and why does it matter? A reply to Janar Mihkelsaar

    Article • Semiotica, November 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Peeter Selg, Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  7. Semiotics of threats: Discourse on the vulnerability of the Estonian identity card

    Article • Sign Systems Studies, August 2019, University of Tartu Press

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  8. Discourse of fear in strategic narratives: The case of Russia’s Zapad war games

    Article • Media War & Conflict, June 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  9. On the analysis of power and politics from the perspective of Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture

    Article • Sign Systems Studies, May 2018, University of Tartu Press

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  10. Challenges to Living Together, or What Matters? Semioethic Approach to Global-Communicative Problems

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  11. Groupuscular identity-creation in online-communication of the Estonian extreme right

    Article • Semiotica, March 2018, De Gruyter

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  12. Biopolitics Meets Biosemiotics: The Semiotic Thresholds of Anti-Aging Interventions

    Article • Theory Culture & Society, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Ott Puumeister, Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  13. Grupuskulaarne identiteediloome paremäärmuslaste võrgusuhtluses / The Formation of Groupuscular Identity in the Web Communication of the Estonian Extreme Right

    Article • Methis Studia humaniora Estonica, January 2017, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  14. Autocommunicative meaning-making in online communication of the Estonian extreme right

    Article • Sign Systems Studies, December 2016, University of Tartu Press

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  15. Rhetorical transformation in Estonian political discourse during World War II

    Article • Semiotica, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  16. ‘Freedom of speech’ in the self-descriptions of the Estonian extreme right groupuscules

    Article • National Identities, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  17. Hegemonic signification from perspective of visual rhetoric

    Article • Semiotica, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  18. Paremäärmuslik sõnavabadus eesti rahvusradikaalide veebisuhtluses

    Article • Mäetagused, January 2014, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  19. Political Analysis as Auto-Communication of Culture

    Article • Chinese Semiotic Studies, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  20. Hegemonic signification from cultural semiotics point of view

    Article • Sign Systems Studies, December 2011, University of Tartu Press

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  21. “Lenin Is the Stalin of Today”: A Deictic Approach to the Cult of the Leader

    Article • Russian Journal of Communication, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  22. Visualization of “people” in Soviet Estonian public photographs of the Stalinist era

    Article • Social Semiotics, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  23. An outline for a semiotic theory of hegemony

    Article • Semiotica, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Dr Peeter Selg, Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  24. The Role of Political Rhetoric in the Development of Soviet Totalitarian Language

    Article • Russian Journal of Communication, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel

  25. On a Semiotic Theory of Hegemony Conceptual Foundations and a Brief Sketch for Future Research

    Article • Transcript Verlag

    Dr Peeter Selg, Dr Andreas Ventsel Ventsel