Results 251 to 260 of about 46,862,779 (292)

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 ...
Jia-Le Zhang, Zongyuan Liu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Targaryen Thought Experiments: Do Science Fiction and Fantasy Examples Aid or Obfuscate Student Learning?

International Studies Perspectives, 2022
Several recently published international relations and criminal justice writings, textbooks, and supplements focus on using science fiction and fantasy texts to teach social science theories.
Adam C Irish, Nicole Sherman, L. Watts
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction

Utopian Studies
As the title suggests, the book examines the intersection of modern Japanese architecture movement, Metabolism and science fiction in the post-war. For Gardner, both architecture and science fiction are ‘forms of artistic simulation.’ He explains that ...
Liz Flyntz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Introduction: A History of Social Science Fiction

Science Fiction Studies, 2003
The intellectual encounter between the social sciences and science fiction has been rich and varied. This Introduction examines how sf literature, sf criticism, and social science theory and practice have intersected and influenced each other. We suggest
Neil Gerlach, S. Hamilton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Social Science Fiction of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery: The Calcutta Chromosome, the Colonial Laboratory, and the Postcolonial New Human

Science Fiction Studies, 2003
Using critical studes of technology, medicine, and empire to analyze Europe’s colonies as laboratories of modernity where both work (labor) and slippage (labi) occur, this essay explores the phenomenon of social science fiction by examining the novel The
Diane M. Nelson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health and US Cancer Screening Interventions: A Systematic Review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Ariella R Korn, Karen Maria Emmons, Callie Walsh-Bailey   +2 more
exaly  

The Social Media Cancer Misinformation Conundrum

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Mike Fillon
exaly