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Se si assumono parametri multipli e si dà ascolto alle neuroscienze, oggi lo storytelling è il terreno di formazione e la palestra entro i quali esercitiamo la no- stra capacità di leggere la realtà. Le narrazioni a struttura sospesa garantiscono elevati standard in termini di mind reading, mentre il predominio sostanziale del controfattuale (esternalizzato come realismo magico o saghe fantasy) migliora le nostre capacità predittive, così come il ricorso a elementi magici trasforma il sistema di attese standard in una hot cognition allertata dinanzi a qualsiasi elemento di novità si presenti all’individuo. Granting multiple parameters of interpretation and the relevance of today’s neuroscientific discoveries, storytelling is the training field where we put to trial our abilities in deciphering reality. Narrations with a “suspended” framework grant us high standards of mind-reading, while a marked dominance of counterfactuals (as expressed in magic realism of phantasy sagas) helps us improve our skills at predicting further developments. The recurrent appeal to magic elements transforms our set of standard expectations into a hot cognition continuously alerted to face any element of novelty., Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, No 2 (2014)

The Narratology of new generation shows renewed heuristic scenarios, providing an intense dialogue among Humanities, Cognitive Neuroscience and Computer Technology. The suspense case is emblematic: its spread and the pleasure exercised by this rhetorical strategy on the human mind can be precisely explained by identifying the mechanisms of reward provided by neurological and Imaging studies. At the same time, patterns of automatic generation of narrative highlight the profound implications of a heated debate between Narratology and Computer Technology, in order to understand the processes of reception and inference during the narrative immersion in storyworlds. At the end of overview on of a cross-disciplinary approach of suspense analysis, the authors repost a case study considered of interest, provided by the North Caroline State University researchers group, called Liquid Narrative Group., ENTHYMEMA, No 13 (2015)

Recenti test sul potenziale socio-cognitivo e il valore edonico di testi letterari che utilizzano elementi magici rivelano come la controfattualità costituisca una ‘palestra mentale’ per i lettori: essi apprendono a elaborare spiegazioni causali complesse e incrementano i fattori coinvolti nel costituirsi della coesione sociale, sia nel caso di lettori young adult sia nel caso di lettori adulti. Lo psicologo Eugene Subbotsky ha dimostrato che la magia ci rende più sensibili alle operazioni di Teoria della Mente e socialmente empatici, mentre un gruppo di narratologi ha di recente misurato i tempi di riassorbimento della dissonanza cognitiva prodotta dall'elemento magico: ciò riesce fra l'altro a spiegare il grande successo di Harry Potter e della saga di Twilight. Recent tests on the social and cognitive potential and the hedonistic value of literary texts that use magic elements show how counterfactuality is a kind of ‘mental training’ for readers: they learn to formulate complex causal explanations and involve more factors in the constitution of social cohesion, both in the case of young adults and adult readers. The psychologist Eugene Subbotsky showed that magic makes us more sensitive to Theory of Mind acts and more socially empathic, and a group of narratologists recently measured the resolution time of cognitive dissonance induced by magical elements: this also explain the great success of the Harry Potter and Twilight sagas., ENTHYMEMA, No 11 (2014)

La relazione tra uomo e narrazione è molto stretta e affonda le sue radici nelle basi biologiche e nei processi neurologici più profondi del cervello. In particolare, la fiaba si configura come un genere cognitivamente connaturato, in grado di corrispondere alle esigenze e alle strutture della mente umana. Questa convergenza tra l’architettura testuale del fiabesco e le strutture cognitive può, almeno in parte, spiegare il carattere di universalità del genere e la sua diffusione come dispositivo mnemonico, in grado di convogliare significati individuali e collettivi, e come ‘microsceneggiatura’ utile per agire nel mondo reale., ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)

This Deliverable aims to briefly describe the data collection processes, the datasets gathered and the preliminary data analysis on users’ behavioural changes that were carried out by the WP1 working group. The inDICEs data collection processed and/or stored within the first 12 months of the project consists of: a) data analyzed as part of the inDICEs participatory platform, where results are made available through the Open Observatory b) data of relevance provided by third-parties such as Enumerate Nemo Eurostat State of the commons United Nations Conference on Trade and Developmen Digital Economy and Society Index EU open data portal c) online content gathered continuously, made accessible by means of the Visual Analytics Dashboard that covers: Online news and web sources Twitter posts Youtube videos Facebook pages d) FBK collected on-line datasets on cultural production, from the following sources: Wikipedia Tiktok Deviantart AllTheater IMDB and was gathered with the purpose to: a) monitor and analyze the state of cultural digitization via WLT analytical tools and through the Visual Analytical Dashboard, configured for culture-based web sources (news, websites, social networks, blogs, forums) and with domain-relevant keywords according to a series of pre-sets and new indicators [as described in Deliverable D1.1]. b) stimulate behavioural changes in the users of participatory platforms in order to favour production and access. To understand how this process of collective cultural production works, inDICEs chose Wikipedia as its first case study, in order to extract new useful indicators to fill the open Repository available for single researchers and institutes., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870792.

This deliverable aims to describe inDICEs’ targeted methodologies of research and analysis, briefly describing the Methodological Toolbox as the set of targeted methodologies defined through an in-depth review of the current state of the art approaches, both in relation to the research questions and to the kind of available and acquired data and their structure. These are the main components of the Methodological Toolbox: inDICEs Theoretical Framework, Targeted strategies of data gathering and data analysis, Available datasets, Set of useful indicators. This set of methodologies is aimed at supplying inDICEs with new data in order to develop reports on CHI digitization status, to support the Self-assessment tool development, to populate the Observatory Platform and to offer insight in the understanding of the users' behaviour (in their use of different personas), as well as in the understanding of the social and economic impact of digitized culture as a basis for the design of evidence-based policies in the future context of the Digital Single Market (DSM)., The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020-DT-GOVERNANCE-13-2019) under grant agreement n° 870792.