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Oct 9, 2020 · This generalization was not queried by the editor or peer reviewers. Researchers did not share a common theoretical background and, in the majority of cases, were not specialists in science fiction studies.
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Researchers did not share a common theoretical background and, in the majority of cases, were not specialists in science fiction stud-ies. The majority of papers did not provide any definitions of science fiction and this implies that “science fiction” was assumed to be universally comprehended without need for definition.
Feb 1, 2024 · Research about the emergence of science fiction mostly focuses on proximate How-questions, about the influence of technological culture on science fiction. Here, we focus on ultimate Why-questions, about the cognitive reasons underlying the appeal for science fiction.
Aug 3, 2017 · Connections between science fiction and human culture. Primary fictional sources in literature, film and drama, theological literature, and criticism. Qualitative. The allure and dread of technology often parallels human metaphysical and theological concerns and concepts.
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
- 2017
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 ...
Abstract. 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 influence future science.
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Oct 9, 2020 · Each of the six archetypes emerged from the data portrays conditions of crises in the external environment. This is the one thing they have in common, and which naturally follows from the choice of using science fiction films set in the future as a source of data to discover transformational images of the futures.
