Zahra Rizvi
Position
Center for Digital Narrative
Affiliation
Research groups
Short info
I use mixed methods to study how people tell stories and build communities online. My current research investigates generative AI-assisted social media storytelling and popular AI trends, algorithmic and narrative intimacy, and interactive and participatory media.
Research
Zahra Rizvi is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), a Norwegian Center of Research Excellence, in the ERC Advanced grant AI Stories: Narrative Archetypes for Artificial Intelligence (2024-2029) project. Rizvi holds a PhD in Literature and Game Studies from the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, where she worked on games, young adult dystopian fiction and youth activism. Her current research is a study of cultural flattening and narrative bias in LLMs, AI ethics, and interactive and synthetic media.
Publications
Conference lecture
- Hannah Maria Leontine Ackermans; Tegan Pyke; Zahra Rizvi (2026). Post-Digital Creativity in Underacknowledged Communities. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2026). AI Boyfriends as Character Creation. (external link)
- Kristine Ask; Thorsten Busch; Dom Ford et al. (2026). Generative AI and Videogame Characters. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2026). Memory maintenance for the AI boyfriend. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi; Anne Sigrid Refsum; Lina Ruth Harder et al. (2026). Narrative and AI Intimacy. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2026). Flattened spirits and displaced monsters in GPT stories. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2026). Digital Humanities for the Generative Text. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2025). Exploring Indian AI Stories. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2025). Synthetic Indians: Exploring AI Stories About India. (external link)
Lecture
- Zahra Rizvi (2026). Narrative Geographies of India and Norway in GPT Stories. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi; Jubi C. John (2026). AI Boyfriends and the Romance Masterplot. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2026). Happy (AI) Ever After: storytelling strategies behind AI companionship. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2026). Research and Publishing with Digital, Interactive and Synthetic Media. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2025). Abstract Writing as Game: Pen, Paper and Play. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2025). Ghibli Timelines and AI-Generated Indians. (external link)
- Zahra Rizvi (2025). Once Upon AI: Exploring Synthetic Stories. (external link)