Alice Bell

Awareness of textual constructedness: Readerly responses to multimodality in post-postmodernist fictions of the digital

This article addresses textual constructedness as a particular kind of foregrounding and focuses on the question of how readers deal with multimodality in post-postmodernist fictions of the digital (PPFDs). PPFDs are contemporary print fictions that imitate, incorporate and/or ut...

Social chatbots and character: Mind-modelling, mimetics, and postdigital misperception

This article examines how users cognitively process social chatbot output as a novel form of participatory, generative “character,” co-produced through human–AI interaction. Reporting on the results of empirical research on user responses to the social chatbot platform character....