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MONOGRAPHS

Natale, S. Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Natale, S. Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture. University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2016 (reprinted as paperback in 2017).

EDITED BOOKS

Natale, S. & Pasulka, D. (eds.) Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Leonardi, N. & Natale, S. (eds.) Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century. University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2018 (reprinted as paperback in 2019).

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Natale, S. & Ballatore, A. Imagining the Thinking Machine: Technological Myths and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence. Convergence 26.1 (2020): 3-18. 

Natale, S. Communicating through or Communicating with: Approaching Artificial Intelligence from a Communication and Media Studies Perspective. Communication Theory 31.4 (2021): 905-10.

Natale, S. & Treré, E. Vinyl Won’t Save Us: Reframing Disconnection as Engagement. Media, Culture and Society 42.4 (2020): 626-33. 

Natale, S. If Software Is Narrative: Joseph Weizenbaum, Artificial Intelligence and the Biographies of ELIZA. New Media and Society 21.3 (2019): 712–728. 

Natale, S., Bory, P., & Balbi, G. The Rise of Corporational Determinism: Digital Media Corporations and Narratives of Media Change. Critical Studies in Media Communication 36.4 (2019): 323-38. 

Natale, S. There Are No Old Media. Journal of Communication 66.4 (2016): 586-603. 

Natale, S. Unveiling the Biographies of Media: On the Role of Narratives, Anecdotes and Storytelling in the Construction of New Media’s Histories. Communication Theory 26.4 (2016): 431–449. 

Ballatore, A. & Natale, S. E-Readers and the Death of the Book: or, New Media and the Myth of the Disappearing Medium. New Media & Society 18.10 (2016): 2379-2394. 

Natale, S. & Ballatore, A. The Web Will Kill Them All: New Media, Digital Utopia, and Political Struggle in the Italian 5-Star Movement. Media, Culture & Society 36.1 (2014): 105-21. 

Natale, S. & Balbi, G. Media and the Imaginary in History: The Role of the Fantastic in Different Stages of Media Change. Media History 20.2 (2014): 203-218. 

Natale, S. Photography and Communication Media in the Nineteenth Century. History of Photography 36.4 (2012): 451-56.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

Natale, S., Treré, E. (eds.) The Limits and Boundaries of Digital Disconnection. Special “Crosscurrent” themed section, Media, Culture & Society vol. 42 no. 4 (2020).

Lesage, F., Natale, S. (eds.) Rethinking the Distinctions between Old and New Media. Special issue of Convergence vol. 25 no. 4 (2019).

Sardá, T., Natale, S., Sotirakopoulos, N. & Monaghan, M. (eds.) Understanding Online Anonymity. Special “Crosscurrent” themed section, Media, Culture & Society vol. 41 no. 4 (2019).

Beil, B. & Natale, S. (eds.), New Media and the Imagination of the Future. Special issue of WI: Journal of Mobile Media vol. 8 no. 2 (2014). 

Insegnamenti

• Media e comunicazione (on-line) (STU0487)
  Corso di laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione
• Storia dei media (-)
  Corso di laurea magistrale in
  Comunicazione e Culture dei media
• Storia del cinema e dei media (corso aggregato) (LET0858)
  Corso di laurea magistrale in
  Comunicazione e Culture dei media
• Storia e teoria dei media (A-H) (STU0638)
  Corso di laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione

Temi di ricerca

Simone Natale's research focuses broadly on media theory and history. His latest monograph, "Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test," was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Integrating media history, science and technology studies, and social psychology, Deceitful Media examines the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout history, illustrating how AI has continued a tradition of technologies that mobilize our liability to deception.

After completing his Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the University of Turin in 2011, Simone has researched and taught in numerous international institutions, including Columbia University in New York, USA, Loughborough University in the UK, Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Cologne in Germany, and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He joined the University of Turin in 2020 as an Associate Professor. His articles have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Communication Theory, Media, Culture & Society, Convergence and Media History. He was awarded research fellowships by world-leading institutions such as the the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, the Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and Columbia University’s Italian Academy in the US. He is Assistant Editor of Media, Culture & Society.

Simone Natale's research reminds us that media are not only machines, artifacts, and social systems, but also imaginary and cultural constructions that contribute to shape our understanding of broader cultural issues, and create new ways to narrate and make sense of the transformations experienced in our society and everyday life. His first monograph "Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture" (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016; reprinted as paperback in 2017) argues that the emergence of new forms of beliefs in spirits since the middle nineteenth century was closely related to the rise of the media entertainment media industry. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book provides an archaeology of how the supernatural entered into the core of contemporary media culture. He is also the editor, with Nicoletta Leonardi, of "Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century" (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and, with Diana Pasulka, of "Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural" (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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