Publications

Presence, flow, and narrative absorption: an interdisciplinary theoretical exploration with a new spatiotemporal integrated model based on predictive processing

We presented a theoretical model clarifying the differences between various terms used in empirical research about users’ cognitive and affective engagement with various…

Cultural accumulation and improvement in online fan fiction

We analyse stories in Harry Potter fan fiction published on Archive of Our Own (AO3), using concepts from cultural evolution.

Linked-Potter: an example of ontology for the study of the evolution of literature and reading communities

Ontology of tags used by authors of Harry Potter fanfiction on AO3.

Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers’ comments in the margins

We presented an overview of the possibility offered by a digital social reading platform like Wattpad for the study of reader response.

Looking at Narrative as a Complex System: The Proteus Principle

Narrative is seen and used in many different ways that can be conceived as systems, i.e. considering that the properties of narrative cannot be studied in isolation but are…