Citizen Science Fiction

Citizen Science Fiction argues that science-fiction literature and media can engage and empower individuals to become active and critical participants in citizen science such that they can collaborate meaningfully in the scientific and technological communities, institutions, and industries that deeply shape their everyday lives.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: MaddAddamite Science: Teaching Citizen Science Through the Threshold Concepts of Gene Culture
Chapter 2: Educating the Anthropocene: Citizen Science, Science Fiction, and Climate-Change Resilience
Chapter 3: Negotiating the Art and Rhetoric of Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Science through Science Fiction
Chapter 4: Mappa Mundi: Incorporating Neuro-Literacy and the Cognitive Science of Emotion into Teaching Composition
Chapter 5: Contemplating the Science-Fictional Cosmos: Citizen Science, Astronomy, and Mindfulness Rhetoric and Pedagogy

About the author

Jerome Winter completed his PhD in English at the University of California, Riverside, where he currently lectures. His work focuses on the intersection of globalisation and contemporary speculative fiction, and he has served as editor of Speculative Fiction for the Los Angeles Review of Books and contributed a chapter on SF art and illustration to the Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014).

Summary

Citizen Science Fiction argues that science-fiction literature and media can engage and empower individuals to become active and critical participants in citizen science such that they can collaborate meaningfully in the scientific and technological communities, institutions, and industries that deeply shape their everyday lives.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Winter, Jerome Dr. Winter, Winter Jerome
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781793621474
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-147-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Science Fiction, Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Dystopia;Science fiction;Speculative fiction;Utopia