Exploring TV Seriality and Television Studies through Data-Driven Approaches

Mirko Degli Esposti is full professor in Mathematical Physics at the University of Bologna. Degree in Physics (Bologna, Italy) and PhD in Mathematics (Caltech and PennState, USA). Postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Science Research Institute (M.S.R.I), Berkeley. Visiting Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been Head of the Math Department of the University of Bologna, and he served as the deputy Rector of the University of Bologna. Recently he has been visiting Professor at the McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He loves mathematical models of information. In his spare time he bikes. 

Guglielmo Pescatore is full professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Entertainment Cultures and Media Economics. His studies on television series gave rise to a strand of research dedicated to narrative ecosystems and vast narratives. Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these investigations use qualitative and quantitative analytical tools, some of which are biologically derived.  On these topics he published “Narrative Ecosystems. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds” (with V. Innocenti, 2017),  “The Evolution of Characters in TV Series: Morphology, Selection, and Remarkable Cases in Narrative Ecosystem” (2018 with V. Innocenti), Ecosistemi narrativi (2018), “Narration in Medical Dramas I: Interpretative Hypotheses and Research Perspectives” (2019 with M. Rocchi),  “Modeling Narrative Features in TV Series: Coding and Clustering Analysis” (2022 with M. Rocchi).