Prof. Dr. Simone Natale

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsCommunication Sciences,Theatre and Media Studies
KeywordsMedia imaginary, Deception, Voice assistants, Artificial Intelligence, Media history

Current contact address

CountryItaly
CityTorino
InstitutionUniversita degli Studi di Torino
InstituteDipartimento di Studi Umanistici - StudiUm
Homepagehttps://media.campusnet.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=snatale#tab-profilo

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Irmela SchneiderInstitut für Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Prof. Dr. Christian KatzenbachAlexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christian KatzenbachZentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI), Universität Bremen, Bremen
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2012

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2016Simone Natale: Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016
2014Simone Natale: The Cinema of Exposure: Spiritualist Exposés, Technology, and the Dispositif of Early Cinema. In: Recherches sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry , 2014, 101-117
2013Simone Natale: Geisterglauben, Unterhaltung, und Show Business im 19. Jahrhundert. In: Historische Anthropologie, 2013, 324-343
2013Simone Natale: Mediums and Stars: Mediumship, Show Business, and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism. In: Christopher Moreman, The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and around the World. Praeger, 2013. 237-251
2013Simone Natale: Spiritual Stars: Religion and Celebrity in the Careers of Spiritualist Mediums. In: Celebrity Studies, 2013, 94-96
2012Simone Natale: Fantasie mediali: La storia dei media e la sfida dell’immaginario. In: Studi Culturali, 2012, 269-284
2012Simone Natale: Photography and Communication Media in the Nineteenth Century. In: History of Photography, 2012, 451-456
2012Simone Natale: Un dispositivo fantasmatico: cinema e spiritismo. In: Bianco e Nero: Rivista Quadrimestrale del Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, 2012, 82-91
2012Simone Natale: Understanding Media Archaeology. In: Canadian Journal of Communication, 2012, 523-527