Search results
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
- [COURSE MATERIALS ENCOURAGED BUT NOT REQUIRED]
- [SOME EXPECTATIONS]
- AS A MEMBER OF MY TUTORIAL, I EXPECT YOU TO:
- AS YOUR INSTRUCTOR, YOU CAN EXPECT ME TO:
Supergiant Games, Transistor (available for iOS, PC, and Mac) A Netflix subscription (or access to one) PDFs of all other course readings will be made available either as paper copies or through the course site.
Attend course and tutorial program-wide meetings. Meet course and tutorial program-wide deadlines. Read thoroughly and attentively. Complete short weekly assignments to engage with the material (composing questions, summarizing, synthesizing, etc.) Bring physical copies of readings to class. Check email regularly for course announcements. Be proact...
Attend tutorial every week for all 113 minutes. Be ready to start class on “Harvard time” at seven minutes past the hour – and don’t pack up until tutorial is over. You’re allowed one unexcused absence, no questions asked. Missing additional meetings without a letter from a doctor or Resident Dean will have a negative impact on your participation g...
Make myself accessible during regularly scheduled office hours. Need something from the readings clarified? Feeling lost in discussion? Struggling to define the scope of your paper? Want to talk over something you found fascinating about the course material? Make an appointment to chat about any and all of these things during my office hours at www...
New Wave: A loose movement in science fiction writing from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, characterized by an experimental approach to narrative structures and language and an emphasis on nuanced social, moral, or psychological conflict rather than on technological concerns.
We can define science fiction as that branch of literature that deals with the human response to changes in the level of science and technology - it being understood that the changes involved would be rational ones in keeping with what was known about science, technology and people.
- Christine Cornea
- 2007
Oct 1, 2020 · Researchers employ science fiction and fantasy in public engagement, advocacy, and education as significant sources of insights to identify public interests, inspire public policy, and...
Feb 1, 2024 · We show that this hypothesis can explain (1) why science fiction works are perceived as homogenous and different from works of fiction of other genres, (2) why science fiction emerged and became culturally successful rather late in literary history, and (3) why the preference for science fiction varies across time, across space, and across ...
People also ask
What is science fiction & fantasy?
Why is science fiction important?
Does science fiction reflect public interests?
How do scientists use science fiction & fantasy in public engagement?
Is science fiction a popular mode of thinking?
Do science fiction researchers have a common theoretical background?
Oct 2, 2014 · For the first two decades of its existence, most scholarly work on Science Fiction tended to take three forms: theoretical efforts at definition that established the historical compass of the genre and elicited a canon of major works, formalist studies that traced important iconic or ideational features of the field, and critical investigations ...
