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Aug 3, 2017 · Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning and teaching.
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Aug 3, 2017 · Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning and...
Oct 9, 2020 · Science fiction has been described as “a crucial and popular mode, even the mainstream mode, of thinking about life in a modern technoscientific world” (Weiner et al., 2018, p. 7) and, in popular forms, can provide remarkable insights into cultural perspectives and assumptions (Menadue, 2019b).
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Our central argument is that, by drawing on well-established aspects of cultural theory — experience, narrative, identity, and affect, for example — to unpack processes of meaning-making, we can find important tools for imagining and analysing public communication and the stories told within it.
Cultural studies, race and gender studies, cyberstudies, and the various postmodernisms and poststructuralisms have all, Hollinger noted, borrowed from the imagery and intellectual repertory of science fiction.
The issue as a whole demonstrates that science fiction has a special relationship with globalization. In early contexts, such as the World’s Fairs, sf often served as a tool in the discursive arsenal justifying worldwide imperial expansion and market consolidation.
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Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning and teaching.
