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Simone Natale

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MONOGRAPHS

Natale, S. Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Trad. italiana: Macchine ingannevoli: Comunicazione, tecnologia, intelligenza artificiale. Torino: Einaudi, 2022.
- Chinese translation: 西蒙尼·纳塔莱, 媒介的欺骗性：后图灵时代的人工智能和社会生活. Shanghai, China: Fudan University Press, 2023. Translation by Rang Wang.

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., Foti, P. & Parry, R. (eds.) Museums and the History of Computing: Objects, Narratives and Practice. London: Routledge, 2024. 

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. Digital Media and the Banalization of Deception. Convergence, published online before print 23 December 2024. 

Natale, S. & Depounti, I. Artificial Sociality. Human-Machine Communication 7.5 (2024): 83-98.

Natale, S. & Henrickson, L. The Lovelace Effect: Perceptions of Creativity in Machines. New Media and Society 26.4 (2024): 1909-26. 

Natale, S. & Treré, E. Dreaming of Seamless Interfaces: Media and Friction from the Feuilleton to Personal Computing. Information, Communication & Society 27.10 (2024): 1945–1963.

Bory, P., Natale, S. & Katzenbach, C. Strong and Weak AI Narratives: An Analytical Framework. AI & Society (2024).

Depounti, I., Saukko, P. & Natale, S. Ideal Technologies, Ideal Women: AI and Gender Imaginaries in Redditors' Discussions on the Replika Bot Girlfriend. Media, Culture & Society 45.4 (2023): 720-36.

Keightley, E., Li, E., Natale, S. & Punathambekar, A. Encounters with Western Media Theory. Media, Culture & Society 45.2 (2023): 406-12.

Natale, S. & Guzman, A.L. Reclaiming the Human in Machine Cultures: Introduction. Media, Culture & Society 44.4 (2022): 627–637. doi: 10.1177/01634437221099614

Sardá, T., Natale, S. & Downey, J. Inventing the Dark Web: Criminalization of Privacy and the Apocalyptic Turn in the Imaginary of the Web. First Monday 27.11 (2022). doi: 10.5210/fm.v27i11.12691

Natale, S. E se l’inganno è banale? Per una nuova teoria dei media nell’epoca della disinformazione. Studi Culturali 18.3 (2021): 437-448. doi: 10.1405/102367

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

Depounti, I. & Natale, S. (eds.) Decoding Artificial Sociality: Technologies, Dynamics, Implications. Special issue, New Media & Society (forthcoming).

Keightley, E., Cheuk-Yin Li, E., Natale, S. & Punathambekar, S. (eds.) Encounters with Western Media Theory. “Crosscurrents” themed Section, Media, Culture & Society vol. 45 No. 2 (2023).

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). 

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Simone Natale is Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin, Italy, and an Editor of the journal Media, Culture & Society. Before returning to work in Italy in 2020, he has lectured and researched at institutions including Columbia University, US, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, Humboldt University and the University of Cologne in Germany, and Loughborough University in the UK. He is the author of numerous publications including his monograph Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021), which has been translated into Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese, and over 40 peer-reviewed research articles in journals such as New Media and Society, Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Information, Communication & Society, and Convergence. He has been awarded research grants by institutions including the AHRC and the ESRC in the UK, the Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and the Ministry of University and Research in Italy, and has worked as expert on AI for leading international institutions and projects such as the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and the Brookings Institution’s Global Task Force on AI in Education.

Simone Natale è professore associato di Storia e Teoria dei Media all'Università di Torino, Italia, e co-direttore della rivista Media, Culture & Society. Prima di tornare a lavorare in Italia nel 2020, ha insegnato e svolto attività di ricerca presso istituzioni quali la Columbia University, Stati Uniti, la Concordia University di Montreal, Canada, l'Università Humboldt e l'Università di Colonia in Germania, e la Loughborough University nel Regno Unito. È autore di numerose pubblicazioni, tra cui la monografia Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021), tradotta in cinese, italiano e portoghese, e oltre 50 articoli peer-reviewed in riviste internazionali come New Media and Society, Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Information, Communication & Society e Communications of the ACM. Ha ricevuto borse di ricerca da istituzioni quali l'AHRC e l'ESRC nel Regno Unito, la Fondazione Humboldt in Germania e il MUR IN Italia, e ha lavorato come esperto di IA per importanti istituzioni e progetti internazionali quali la Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) e la Global Task Force on AI in Education della Brookings Institution.

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