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What Can Double Estrangement Reveal about Speculative Fiction?

Fafnir, 2023
In my book Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, I use the phrase “double estrangement” to describe science fiction texts that add a layer of racial self-consciousness to the estrangement of science fictional settings.
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
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Du théâtre de science-fiction politique au macro-événement culturel : étude de cas sur Vous êtes ici (en compagnie des créatrices) 

ReS Futurae, 2021
This paper is a problematized study of an atypical case of the contemporary Swiss theater scene: Vous êtes ici, a science-fiction theater series unfolding its 10 episodes over the 2020-2021 season.
Aurélien Maignant, Roberta Alberico
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Graphic illustration of impairment: science fiction, Transmetropolitan and the social model of disability

Medical Humanities, 2018
The following paper examines the cyberpunk transhumanist graphic novel Transmetropolitan through the theoretical lens of disability studies to demonstrate how science fiction, and in particular this series, illustrate and can influence how we think about
R. Gibson
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Citizens of the future: Science fiction and the games of citizen science

Science Fiction Film and Television, 2021
:Over the last decade, a variety of ‘citizen science’ projects have turned to video games and other tools of gamification to enrol participants and to encourage public engagement with scientific research questions.
C. Milburn, Melissa A. Wills
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From fantasy to sci-fi: social aspects of reflection of science in literature on the example of the Strugatsky brothers and Elizer Yudkowsky

Семиотические исследования
The work raises the issue of the popularity of science in modern science fiction literature. It defines science fiction and fantasy from the standpoint of social philosophy.
Sergey V. Feofanov
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You’re an Orphan When Science Fiction Raises You

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2020
In Among Others, Jo Walton’s fairy story about a science-fiction fan, science fiction as a genre and archive serves as an adoptive parent for Morwenna Markova as much as the extended family who provide the more conventional parenting in the absence of ...
Halpin Jenni G.
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Enabling quantitative data analysis through e-infrastructures [PDF]

, 2009
This paper discusses how quantitative data analysis in the social sciences can engage with and exploit an e-Infrastructure. We highlight how a number of activities which are central to quantitative data analysis, referred to as ‘data management’, can ...
Sinnott, Richard, Lambert, P.S., Jones, Simon, Maxwell, M., Warner, G., Gayle, V., Tan, K., Lambert, Paul, Tan, K.L.L., Tan, Koon Leai Larry, Bowes, A., Sinnott, Richard O., Bell, D.N.F., Jones, S., Blum, Jesse, Turner, K. J., Turner, K.J., Sinnott, R., Lambert, Paul S., Jones, Simon B., Warner, Guy, Lambert, P, Gayle, Vernon, Jones, S.B., Blum, J., Turner, Kenneth J, Blum, Jesse Michael, Sinnott, R.O., Turner, Ken J.   +28 more
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On Some Properties of Science Fiction Dystopian Narrative

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2017
Dystopia is a narrative form of fiction in general and of science fiction in particular. Using elements of science fiction discourse like time travel, space flight, advanced technologies, virtual reality, genetic engineering, etc.
Gaiane Muradian, Anna Karapetyan
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Ivagining worlds: on Ursula K. Le Guin, social science-fiction, and altertopias

Horizontes Antropológicos, 2023
Ethnography-based Anthropology and Science Fiction can engage in a productive dialogue since both address what is proposed as “altertopias”. Utopias, dystopias, and cultural alterity share the possibility of imagining social and cultural organizations ...
Miguel Vale de Almeida
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Transparent Perovskite Light‐Emitting Diodes with Conductive Oxide Top Electrodes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Transparent perovskite light‐emitting diodes (TrPeLEDs) enable simultaneous display and transparency, expanding application possibilities. Using a metal oxide buffer layer and pulsed laser deposition, TrPeLEDs with diverse compositions and architectures are demonstrated.
Michele Forzatti, Sergio Martínez‐Saiz, Morena Cervino, Edoardo Stanzani, Sandra Jenatsch, Qingsen Zeng, Joo Sung Kim, Dong‐Hyeok Kim, Eojin Yoon, Tae‐Woo Lee, Daniel Tordera, Henk J. Bolink   +11 more
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