PCA/ACA
Schedule by area: Science & Popular Culture
Science & Pop Culture I: Knowledge among the Masses
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Challenges for the Fashion industry in Tackling Climate Change | Matthew Hibberd | Paper | |
| Nerding to the Choir: Science Attitudes of Pop-Culture Media Fans | Vaughan Steven James | Paper | |
| Shaping the genohype: A cautionary tale of overpromise | Stephan Andre Struve | Paper |
Science & Pop Culture II: Immersive Space(s): Encounters with Outer Space in Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “Seeing is Believing: Chesley Bonestell and the Moon Pre-Apollo” | Lois Rosson | Paper | |
| “Getting Light Together”: Nostalgia, Community, and the Future in the Laserium | Katherine S Boyce-Jacino | Paper | |
| “Spend a Day in Outer Space”: Everyone is an Astronaut at U.S. Space Camp | Emily A. Margolis | Paper |
Science & Pop Culture III: From Game of Thrones to Westworld
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Of Magic, Pigshit and Truth: Finding Science in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire | Steven Gil | Paper | |
| Science Fiction as a Discursive Tool for the (Re)Presentation of Psycho-Social Elements in TV Series: The Case of Altered Carbon | Carmen Spano | Paper | |
| THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS HAVE VIOLENT ENDS: REPRESENTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HBO’S WESTWORLD | Kingsley Marshall | Paper |
THE WORLD IS MAKING YOU SICK: CRITIQUES OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Round table
Michael Brody, Eric Greene, Steven Gil, Beth Ash
Science & Pop Culture IV: Science/Fiction
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Beauty and Truth of Self-Destruction: Female Autoeroticism in Garland’s Annihilation | Aileen Miyuki Farrar | Paper | |
| A Preferred Reality: Portrayals of Robots and AI in Popular Science Fiction Film | Daniel G. Dieter Elyse Gessler | Paper | |
| The Art of Making a Dinosaur in Jurassic World: When consumers get bored, scientist’s create art. | Derek Smeltzer | Paper | |
| “Nothing Is What It Seems”: Posthumanism and late capitalism in Altered Carbon | Julia A. Empey | Paper |
Science & Pop Culture V: Communication and Education
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular Performances for Explaining Contemporary Physics | Mircea Sava | Paper | |
| From Watching to Performing: How Popular Culture Can Inform Embodied Interaction | Stella A Ress Francesco Cafaro | Paper | |
| Doomsday diseases: Exploring the visual and narrative framing of disease outbreaks through intertextual signifiers | Scott SD Mitchell | Paper |
Science & Pop Culture VI: Views from the Past
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mutating Mummy: From Ancient Artefact to Modern Attraction | basil Glynn | Paper | |
| Unworldly Things: Science and Girlhood in the Case of the Cottingley Fairies | Elizabeth Grumer | Paper | |
| The Grand Scientific Narrative: The Religious Presentation of Science in Popular Culture as a Means to Re-Enchant the Secular West | Anthony Kenneth Nairn | Paper |
Science & Pop Culture VII: Internet and New Media
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Science and Reddit: Scientific Knowledge in Social Media | Katie Truax | Paper | |
| Unframed Data: Big data and the new norm in Chinese entertainment industry | Xiao Wang | Paper |
Science & Pop Culture VIII: Media Representations
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pseudosciencefiction: the Rise and Range of Docufiction | Jessie Casteel | Paper |