Simone Natale

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Simone Natale is a scholar working on Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Natale has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Safety Research, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Simone Natale's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (14 papers), Digital Games and Media (8 papers) and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (6 papers). Simone Natale is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (14 papers), Digital Games and Media (8 papers) and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (6 papers). Simone Natale collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Simone Natale's co-authors include Andrea Ballatore, Emiliano Treré, Gabriele Balbi, Paula Saukko, Andrea L. Guzman, Emily Keightley, Aswin Punathambekar, Mark Monaghan, Christian Katzenbach and Steven Umbrello and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Communications of the ACM and Journal of Communication.

In The Last Decade

Simone Natale

46 papers receiving 926 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Imagining the thinking machine: Technological myths and the rise of artificial intelligence

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Natale United Kingdom	19	394	222	180	166	110	50	1.0k
Andrew McStay United Kingdom	13	602 1.5×	180 0.8×	262 1.5×	288 1.7×	135 1.2×	42	1.1k
Charles Ess United States	20	611 1.6×	222 1.0×	136 0.8×	316 1.9×	113 1.0×	71	1.3k
Helen Kennedy United Kingdom	19	545 1.4×	170 0.8×	125 0.7×	279 1.7×	46 0.4×	41	1.1k
Kristen Vaccaro United States	13	503 1.3×	373 1.7×	345 1.9×	205 1.2×	78 0.7×	19	1.1k
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Canada	15	545 1.4×	139 0.6×	77 0.4×	188 1.1×	55 0.5×	38	1.3k
Andrea L. Guzman United States	11	454 1.2×	324 1.5×	425 2.4×	229 1.4×	190 1.7×	21	1.2k
Péter Nagy United States	12	396 1.0×	64 0.3×	102 0.6×	195 1.2×	79 0.7×	35	810
Alison Adam United Kingdom	18	457 1.2×	202 0.9×	105 0.6×	119 0.7×	41 0.4×	55	999
Nick Seaver United States	11	444 1.1×	371 1.7×	112 0.6×	117 0.7×	25 0.2×	16	1.1k
Anna Lauren Hoffmann United States	12	383 1.0×	448 2.0×	219 1.2×	142 0.9×	24 0.2×	24	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Natale

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All Works

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Natale, Simone, Payal Arora, John Downey, et al.. (2025). Global AI Cultures. Communications of the ACM. 68(9). 37–40. 2 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone, et al.. (2025). Human-machine communication cultures: Introduction. Global Media and China. 10(4). 417–424.

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Arora, Payal & Simone Natale. (2025). Situating AI: Global media approaches to artificial intelligence. Media Culture & Society. 47(5). 1007–1011. 1 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone, et al.. (2024). Artificial Sociality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 83–98. 16 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone, et al.. (2024). Strong and weak AI narratives: an analytical framework. AI & Society. 40(4). 2107–2117. 8 indexed citations

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Umbrello, Steven & Simone Natale. (2024). Reframing Deception for Human-Centered AI. International Journal of Social Robotics. 16(11-12). 2223–2241. 5 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2021). Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test. 7 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2020). Communicating Through or Communicating with: Approaching Artificial Intelligence from a Communication and Media Studies Perspective. Communication Theory. 31(4). 905–910. 18 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone, et al.. (2020). Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces. Media Culture & Society. 43(6). 1000–1016. 36 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone & Emiliano Treré. (2020). Vinyl won’t save us: reframing disconnection as engagement. Media Culture & Society. 42(4). 626–633. 35 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone, et al.. (2019). The rise of corporational determinism: digital media corporations and narratives of media change. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 36(4). 323–338. 24 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone, et al.. (2019). Believing in bits: Digital media and the supernatural. Figshare. 1–250. 4 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2016). Supernatural Entertainments. Penn State University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Balbi, Gabriele & Simone Natale. (2015). The Double Birth of Wireless: Italian Radio Amateurs and the interpretative Flexibility of New Media. Journal of Radio & Audio Media. 22(1). 26–41. 6 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone, et al.. (2014). Introduction: New Media and the Imagination of the Future. Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University). 8(2). 4 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2013). Spiritual stars: religion and celebrity in the careers of spiritualist mediums. Celebrity Studies. 4(1). 94–96. 1 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2012). Un dispositivo fantasmatico: cinema e spiritismo. Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin). 73(2). 1 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2012). Media Fantasies. The History of Media and the Challenge of the Imaginary. Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University). 269–284. 2 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2012). Talking of Revolution, Again: Interview with Fred Turner. Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin). 6(3). 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Natale, Simone. (2012). A short history of superimposition: From spirit photography to early cinema. Early Popular Visual Culture. 10(2). 125–145. 8 indexed citations

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