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The Impact of Digital Media on Event-Related Perception
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: Received: 28 June 2023 / Approved: 29 June 2023 / Online: 30 June 2023 (03:08:15 CEST)
How to cite: Calabrese, S. The Impact of Digital Media on Event-Related Perception. Preprints 2023, 2023062163. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.2163.v1 Calabrese, S. The Impact of Digital Media on Event-Related Perception. Preprints 2023, 2023062163. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.2163.v1
Abstract
The digital breakthrough of the nineties has profoundly changed the way events are recognized. Starting from EST (Event Segmentation Theory) elaborated by J.M. Zacks and his collaborators, this contribution shows how the way we segment the experiential flow has been changed by the introduction of digital: while throughout modernity the perception of events was based on immediate segmentation processes, founded on five elements (agent, space, time, intention, purpose) and determined by an evident con-clusion, we currently see in the perceptive models of individuals and consequently also in aesthetic texts (films, television series, novels, graphic novels etc.) a weakening of the end. This determines not only a greater difficulty in perceiving an event, but also the need to introduce micro-caesuras between one event and another: it is space that con-stitutes the most salient category in differentiating one event from another, as is evident in the transmedia storytelling that characterizes contemporary aesthetics.
Keywords
Event; transmedia storytelling; action; expanded text
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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