Alan N. Shapiro (born 23 April 1956 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American science fiction and media theorist.

[16] Shapiro has been visiting professor in the Department of Film and New Media at the NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) University of Arts and Design in Milan.

[citation needed] Shapiro's book Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality and Posthumanism was published by the Transcript Verlag in June 2024.

[32][33][34] In 2019, he published an influential essay on Dialogical Artificial Intelligence in the magazine of the German national cultural foundation.

[39] In 2010–2011, Shapiro lectured on "The Car of the Future" at Transmediale in Berlin, Germany,[40][41] and on robots and androids at Ars Electronica.

[42][43] In September 2011, Shapiro gave a major speech at the Plektrum Festival in Tallinn, Estonia on "The Meaning of Life.

In April 2024, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Artistic and Media Research from the Faculty of Language and Cultural Studies of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany.