Information Science + Studies Faculty: Publications since January 2023

%% Forte, Maurizio   
@misc{fds370657,
   Author = {Giorgi, A and Menicocci, S and Forte, M and Ferrara, V and Mingione, M and Alaimo Di Loro and P and Inguscio, BMS and Ferrara, S and Babiloni, F and Vozzi, A and Ronca, V and Cartocci, G},
   Title = {Virtual and Reality: A Neurophysiological Pilot Study of the
             Sarcophagus of the Spouses.},
   Journal = {Brain sciences},
   Volume = {13},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {635},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {April},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13040635},
   Abstract = {Art experience is not solely the observation of artistic
             objects, but great relevance is also placed on the
             environment in which the art experience takes place, often
             in museums and galleries. Interestingly, in the last few
             years, the introduction of some forms of virtual reality
             (VR) in museum contexts has been increasing. This has
             solicited enormous research interest in investigating any
             eventual differences between looking at the same artifact
             either in a real context (e.g. a museum) and in VR. To
             address such a target, a neuroaesthetic study was performed
             in which electroencephalography (EEG) and autonomic signals
             (heart rate and skin conductance) were recorded during the
             observation of the Etruscan artifact "Sarcophagus of the
             Spouses", both in the museum and in a VR reproduction.
             Results from EEG analysis showed a higher level of the
             Workload Index during observation in the museum compared to
             VR (<i>p</i> = 0.04), while the Approach-Withdrawal Index
             highlighted increased levels during the observation in VR
             compared to the observation in the museum (<i>p</i> = 0.03).
             Concerning autonomic indices, the museum elicited a higher
             Emotional Index response than the VR (<i>p</i> = 0.03).
             Overall, preliminary results suggest a higher engagement
             potential of the museum compared to VR, although VR could
             also favour higher embodiment than the museum.},
   Doi = {10.3390/brainsci13040635},
   Key = {fds370657}
}


%% Hayles, N. Katherine   
@article{fds371867,
   Author = {Hayles, NK},
   Title = {Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in
             Representation},
   Journal = {American Literature},
   Volume = {95},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {256-279},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {June},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575063},
   Abstract = {The human aura is now being subverted by a variety of
             simulacra. OpenAI’s language-generation program GPT-3
             illustrates the challenges of interpreting
             algorithmic-generated texts. This article advocates
             interpretive strategies that recognize the profound
             differences (in the case of GPT-3) of language that issues
             from a program that has a model only of language, not of the
             world. Conscious robots, when and if they emerge, will have
             profoundly different embodiments than humans. Fictions that
             imagine conscious robots thus face a similar challenge
             presented by the GPT-3 texts: will they gloss over the
             differences, or will they enact strategies that articulate
             the differences and explore their implications for humans
             immersed in algorithmic cultures? The author analyzes three
             contemporary novels that engage with this challenge: Annalee
             Newitz’s Autonomous (2017), Kuzuo Ishiguro’s Klara and
             the Sun (2021), and Ian McEwan’s Machines like Me (2019).
             Each interrogates how the human aura is subverted by
             conscious robots. The article concludes by proposing how a
             reconfigured human aura should be constituted.},
   Doi = {10.1215/00029831-10575063},
   Key = {fds371867}
}

@article{fds373494,
   Author = {Hayles, NK},
   Title = {Literary Cybernetics: The Point (of the Spear)},
   Journal = {New Literary History},
   Volume = {54},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {1289-1294},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {March},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2023.a907175},
   Doi = {10.1353/nlh.2023.a907175},
   Key = {fds373494}
}


%% Mitchell, Robert E.   
@misc{fds368138,
   Author = {Halpern, O and Mitchell, R},
   Title = {The Smartness Mandate},
   Pages = {335 pages},
   Publisher = {M I T PRESS},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {0262544512},
   Abstract = {The smartness mandate constitutes a new form of planetary
             governance, and Halpern and Mitchell aim to map the logic of
             this seemingly inexorable and now naturalized demand to
             compute, to illuminate the genealogy of how we arrived here
             and ...},
   Key = {fds368138}
}


%% Wald, Priscilla   
@article{fds371430,
   Author = {Wald, P},
   Title = {Afterword},
   Journal = {English Language Notes},
   Volume = {61},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {95-99},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-10293195},
   Doi = {10.1215/00138282-10293195},
   Key = {fds371430}
}