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The role of science fiction perception on innovator: integrating the theory of planned behavior and social support network theory

Kybernetes, 2023
PurposeThis study aims to explore the influence of science fiction on innovators and present a comprehensive model using the theory of planned behavior and social support theory to discuss the impact of science fiction on the intention of becoming an ...
Jiale Zhang, Zongyuan Liu
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What Science Fiction Can Demonstrate About Novelty in the Context of Discovery and Scientific Creativity

Foundations of Science, 2019
Clarissa Ai Ling Lee
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The Ethics of Extrapolation: Science Fiction in the Technical Communication Classroom

Technical Communication Quarterly, 2021
This article argues that science fiction is a powerful tool for teaching ethics in the technical communication classroom. As a literary genre, science fiction is uniquely situated to critique the social and political consequences of technological ...
Derek Lee
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Radio Science Fiction and the Theory of Genre

2012
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A preferred reality: Film portrayals of robots and AI in popular science fiction

Journal of Science and Popular Culture, 2021
The increasing frequency and depth of human interaction with robots and artificial intelligence (AI) prompts this research study into how media-framed portrayals of technology in popular visual media might construct social reality.
Daniel G. Dieter, Elyse C. Gessler
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Feminist theory and science fiction

2003
Veronica Hollinger
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Science fiction, reconfigured social theory and the Anthropocene Age: exploring and thinking about planetary futures through fictional imaginaries

, 2020
Should humanity prepare for life on a less habitable planet? The magnitude of human activities indeed makes it necessary to think about their consequences and to consider tackling them with renewed imaginative foundations.
Yannick Rumpala
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Science-fiction literature as inspiration for social theorizing within sustainability research [PDF]

, 2017
As commonly accepted, the stakes of sustainable development (SD) are altogether highly serious, complex, and diverse, spanning from changing living standards to the very future of mankind.
C. Gendron, S. Ivanaj, Bernard Girard, Marie-Luc Arpin   +3 more
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Cherokee Historical Fiction and Indigenous Science Fiction in Riding the Trail of Tears

MELUS, 2020
Turning to Indigenous genre theory, this article interprets Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (2011) as a work of both Indigenous science fiction and Cherokee historical fiction.
J. Jackson, Megan Vallowe
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Nuclear Field Theory: Exact Theory or Science Fiction?

1981
To understand the boson behavior of a fermion system is of fundamental importance in many fields of physicsl. In nuclear physics, this problem too has attracted enormous interest because of the successes of the Interacting Boson Model (IBM)2. One possible way to carry out such studies is the nuclear field theory (NFT)3 which was first proposed in 1968 ...
Da Hsuan Feng, Cheng-Li Wu
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