Introduction: Dialogues with Technology

Introduction on the special issue on the relationship between contemporary serial narratives and digital technologies. After highlighting some key technological aspects of contemporary serial narratives, affecting aesthetics and production, distribution and audience engagement, both looking at present trends (in a sort of still image) and at some future steps (in a potential virtual scenario), the relevance of the dialogues between serial audiovisual narratives and technology, as well as the many multifaceted approaches to them, are effectively proved by the articles published in this special issues. Putting together different examples and varied theoretical and methodological perspectives, these contributions are able to provide at least a glimpse of the current research on the topic, as well as to open paths for further investigation.