Media Mutations 8

A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO TV SERIES

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Organized by Michele Guerra (Università di Parma), Veronica Innocenti (Università di Bologna), Héctor J. Pérez (Universitat Politècnica de València), Margrethe Bruun Vaage (University of Kent)

Media Mutations 8. A Cognitive Approach to TV Series is a two-day conference organized by the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image. The conference is part of a research project titled Theoretical Innovation Strategies in the Analysis of Narration in Television Series (CSO2014-51872-R) funded by the Spanish Government.

With a rich and promising program, the 2016 conference aims at aiding the nascent employment of cognitive theories to the study of TV series to firmly establish itself as an interdisciplinary approach in media studies, defining trends, possible lines of research and future work in this new and still partly unexplored field.

Papers will explore the role of emotions in TV series focusing on the engagement stimulated by characters, events, plots. Speakers will also concentrate on the cognitive processes elicited by serial narrative as well as on the relationship between cognitive TV studies and other relevant theoretical approaches, such as that of narrative ecosystems and embodied narratology.