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Third-party reproduction has reshaped how we perceive family connections. The use of donor gametes has supported the emergence of new family forms and created new roles for those who help others conceive without becoming parents themselves. Donor conception has also evolved, most notably with the gradual dismantling of donor anonymity. While anonymity has been removed in an increasing number of jurisdictions (such as the United Kingdom and Quebec), DNA testing and social media allow donor-conceived people to find their donors even where anonymity is still in place. Although research is emerging on these situations, especially from the perspective of donor-conceived people, little is still known about the experiences of egg and sperm donors. How do they experience being contacted by someone born from one of their donations? How do donors perceive their connection to them? This paper presents findings from a qualitative study involving 15 men and 12 women who donated sperm or eggs in the United States, Australia, and Canada between the 1970s and 2010s. Most donated anonymously, yet all have been contacted by donor offspring. Drawing on kinship studies, this presentation explores how donors perceive their connections with donor offspring, focusing on the terms of reference they use. These connections are difficult to define, as they are based on a physical connection through procreation, but are not supported by time or care during childhood, and donor-conceived people already have parents.

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The research endeavour to study the capacity of graphical signs and their combination to express ideas has kept the researchers busy for a long time, especially with the progress made in human visual perception and cognition and the progressive availability of new media for images (screens, augmented or virtual reality…). The volume of works in this research theme has gradually been replaced by more methodological ones, but the epistemological question about the role and the function of maps has remained active, and it involves semiotics. In this short paper, I will try to highlight new semiotic trends in thematic cartography, on the conceptual and practical sides, from a subjective collection of findings.