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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Terra! di Stefano Benni: una cometa apocalittica nella letteratura italiana degli anni Ottanta

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes
Published in 1983, Stefano Benni’s Terra! is a dystopian novel blending satire, science fiction, and social critique, reinterpreting Anglo-Saxon narrative models through irony and linguistic experimentation. In analyzing Benni’s novel, this article first
Stefano Magni
doaj   +1 more source

China’s Sci-Fi Images: Constructing Alternate Technological Futures [PDF]

Contexto Internacional
How does science fiction from the Global South contribute to the construction of alternative technological futures? In light of this question, we argue that, as a constitutive component of visions of the future, science fiction can support alternate and ...
Jonathan de Araujo de Assis, Héctor Luis Saint-Pierre   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning beyond the lab: A gamified approach to anatomy education in a museum‐based experience

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomy education, traditionally rooted in descriptive instruction and cadaveric dissection, is undergoing a significant transformation through the integration of educational technologies and contemporary pedagogical strategies. Among these, active learning methodologies, such as gamified‐based learning, have emerged as approaches designed to ...
Wendell Nunes da Silva, Diego Pulzatto Cury, Silvia Lacchini, Ana Paula Cremasco Takano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemics, epidemics, viruses, plagues, and disease: Comparative frequency analysis of a cultural pathology reflected in science fiction magazines from 1926 to 2015

Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2020
Science fiction includes many dystopian narratives, often featuring epidemics, pandemics, plagues, viruses, and disease. As science fiction has grown in popularity and prevalence it appeals to an increasingly broad demographic, is employed in research ...
C. B. Menadue
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A university‐certified course on dossier assessment for regulatory scientists in Africa—Reporting on our 5‐year experience

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim The shortage of trained clinical assessors in African National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) poses a challenge to effective regulatory decision‐making. Developed in line with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Competency Framework (WHO‐GCF), a university‐certified short course, Dossier assessment for clinical assessors in Africa, was ...
Stephanie Leigh, Boitumelo Semete‐Makokotlela, Ivana Škrnjug‐Yudov, David Mukanga, Delese Mimi Darko, Eric Karikari‐Boateng, Peter Stonier, Luther Gwaza, Precious Matsoso, Bernd Rosenkranz, Birka Lehmann, Arnold G. Vulto, John G. Woodland, Shabir Banoo, Frieda Shigwedha, Maphutheho Selikane, Unathi Mabona‐Mgoqi, Asare Yeboah, Ntombi Mthembu, Goonaseelan ( Colin) Pillai   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fictioning Social Theory: the use of fiction to enrich, inform and challenge the theoretical imaginationa: Introduction

Digithum, 2019
The introduction to the special issue taps into discussions about the inseparability of science and fiction. Commencing from the idea that scientific statements are distinguished from fiction only a posteriori, not a priori, the piece asks, how fiction ...
Olli Pyyhtinen
doaj   +2 more sources

Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the Literature, 1980-2016

SAGE Open, 2017
This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture.
Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adapting the WHO Global Competency Framework for Regulators of Medicines: Implementation lessons from the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Medicines regulatory authorities require skilled staff to ensure timely, consistent and high‐quality regulatory decision making. The World Health Organization Global Competency Framework (WHO‐GCF) for Regulators of Medicines provides a common reference for defining regulatory workforce competencies while allowing adaptation to local needs.
Goonaseelan Pillai, Boitumelo Semete‐Makokotlela, Innocent G. Asiimwe, Suraiya Suliman, Shyamli Munbodh, David Mukanga, Douglas McNair, Sakhile Dube‐Mwedzi, Bernd Rosenkranz, Luther Gwaza   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecocriticism and Terraforming: Building Critical Spaces

Forum, 2010
Science fiction employs a distinctive language to engage speculatively yet critically with our contemporary world. Space, with its discrete planetary bodies and other cosmic objects, functions both as an emblem of science fiction and operates in a more ...
CHris Pak
doaj   +3 more sources