Simone is Associate Professor at the University of Turin, Italy and Principal Investigator of the Circuits of Practice project at Loughborough University, UK. His work has been published in leading journals in his areas of interest, including New Media & Society, Communication Theory, the Journal of Communication, Convergence, and Media, Culture & Society. He is the author of two monographs, Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture (Penn State University Press, 2016, paperback 2017). He co-edited two edited volumes, Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century (Penn State University Press, 2018). His research has been funded by international organisations including the AHRC and the ESRC in the UK, the Humboldt Foundation in Germany and Columbia University’s Italian Academy in the US. Simone is Assistant Editor of the journal Media, Culture & Society.