Colonizing Bodies: Corporate Power and Biotechnology in Young Adult Science Fiction

Guerra, Stephanie

doi:10.1007/s10583-009-9086-z

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“…There has been a long tradition of using sci-fi in environmental science education. One reason is that sci-fi may stimulate public discussion and reflection on scientific and technological development and their impacts on human society and environments (Bina et al, 2017 ; Guerra, 2009 ; Petersen et al, 2005 ; Van Dijck, 1999 ). Sci-fi directly addresses peoples’ concerns, fears, anxiety, and desire to explore new possibilities.…”

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Creating Digital Sci-Fi Narratives through Multimodal Composing to Promote Adolescent Students’ STEM Education

Ran

Shen

Smith

et al. 2023

Discip Interdscip Sci Educ Res

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Much research has examined the incorporation of academic and scientific writing in science learning. However, less research has applied a narrative approach that represents events in a time sequence. Furthermore, modern technology has greatly extended students’ modes of science expression beyond the printed texts. Yet, connecting students’ rich experience in digital storytelling with their academic learning in science is still an area of needed research. This study focused on analyzing the products students generated as a way to examine how they integrated science in their multimodal sci-fi narratives. These narratives were created in a program designed to engage adolescents in integrated STEM and digital literacy learning. More specifically, this study developed a two-dimensional framework (science and integration) to evaluate the 35 products produced by 136 participants in 5 iterations of the program. Content and thematic analyses revealed that a wide variety of sophisticated mechanisms was applied for science integration, including: (1) building connections among diverse science topics; (2) leveraging innovative narrative techniques; (3) responding critically to socio-scientific problems; and (4) designing and redesigning multimodal elements.

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Creating Digital Sci-Fi Narratives through Multimodal Composing to Promote Adolescent Students’ STEM Education

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Shen

Smith

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“…For example, Bean and Harper's ( 2007) work on the representation of masculinity in YA explores the nature and performance of masculinity through the various representations of male characters. Likewise, Jessica Miller's (2012) analysis of gender identities in The Hunger Games maps the progression of Katniss and Peeta's gender performances, while Stephanie Guerra (2009) explores the portrayals of biotechnology and corporatisation in various YA texts and argues that each narrative constitutes an alternative examination of: "the biotechnical subjection of human matter to market force" (293). While these analyses are theoretically interesting, they rely on heterological frameworks which assume that there is a clear 'other' within the text.…”

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‘Youth theory’: a response to aetonormativity

Seymour

2015

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This paper proposes a 'Youth Theory' of analysis which constructs youth as a site of transition, rather than an 'other' figure, and examines the relationship that young people have with the dominant social discourse (adulthood). The theory is similar to Marxist theory, except instead of focusing on arbitrary class barriers, it focuses on a culturally determined age-based power hierarchy. Fiction for young readers is unusual in the publishing discourse because the target audience of the genre does not (usually) produce the texts they consume. Instead, Children's and Young Adult fiction (YA) is produced by adult authors. This exclusion of the young readers' voice can marginalise and (eventually) colonise young adults as readers because it privileges the voice of the 'powerholders', or adults. Young readers differ from other marginalised groups, such as women, people of colour, and LGBTQ+ people, because there is no youth-specific theory of textual analysis in the way that there is Feminism, Post-colonialism, and Queer theory. This paper addresses this gap in critical practice; it models the use of Youth Theory by analysing contemporary fiction for young readers through an agebased interpretive framework. It examines how aetonormativity is portrayed in fiction, and how young characters are shown reacting to it.

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“…Among cultural themes, there were clear distinctions between research examining the relationship between science culture and science fiction, which examined the influence of human culture on science fiction content, and the research that focused on connections between science fiction and human culture. The first two of these themes are bidirectional-science fiction can influence science and scientists (Dunnett, 2012;Hansen, 2004;Steinmuller, 2003), science can influence science fiction (Guerra, 2009;Kohlmann, 2014), and this relationship can be reciprocal (Coyer, 2014;Jonsson, 2013;Strauss, 2015). The theme of "connections between science fiction and science culture" indicated a less directive association: Observations of congruence rather than influence were specifically noted in nine papers (Banerjee, 2003;Geraci, 2007;Hull, 2005;Jameson, 1987;Jonsson, 2013;Kohlmann, 2014;Kotasek, 2015;Parrinder, 2009;Shaddox, 2013).…”

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

Menadue

Cheer

2017

Sage Open

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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. To capture a representative range of research, the PRISMA process was applied to database searches across a range of disciplines, not restricted to science fiction journals. Findings revealed that science fiction literature has been used in research across disciplines including theology, semantics, natural sciences, and education. Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning and teaching. An unclear boundary between real science and science in the public imagination is problematic for research success, but the purposeful integration of fictional representations of science (both natural and social) into the research story has demonstrable benefits. To address the limited application of objective methodologies, adoption of increasingly robust quantitative analysis into research in the fields of literature and culture is recommended. This would assist in bridging the two cultures divide between the humanities and natural sciences.Keywords convergence, fiction, methodology, multidisciplinary, science communication, two cultures 2 SAGE Open increasingly complex and unstable social and intellectual reality, it absorbed and softened the impact of that complexity by depicting possible futures as being similarly iconoclastic and haphazard (Greenland, 1983). It has even been argued that the intermingling of science fiction and fact regarding the creation of artificial intelligences and synthetic humans permeates our culture so deeply that it influences our existential relationship with God (Geraci, 2007).Science fiction questions the role, relevance, costs, and benefits of current and future technologies, and presents ideas that can influence public opinion. Brian Stableford claimed that science fiction could determine the worldview of individuals, by the modification of attitudes to the significance of current and future science and technology (Stableford, 1979). Marshall Tymn agreed that as a literature, science fiction equips us to accept change as natural and inevitable (Tymn, 1985). As change is a natural outcome of applied scientific research, science fiction has been employed as a tool by researchers to provide metaphors, analogies, and models that describe the findings of their research (Bina, Mateus, Pereira, & Caffa, 2017;Hansen, 2004;Kotasek, 2015;McIntire, 1982;Toscano, 2011). Human acceptance of change is difficult and resists authoritative statements of fact, as has been identified in applied psychological and sociological studies (Nyhan, Reifler, Richey, & Freed, 2014;Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992). Science fiction is an effective agent for change, and, as Stableford (1979) has suggested, it also has a "directive effect" on people's interpretations of science. Ann Rigney desc...

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Colonizing Bodies: Corporate Power and Biotechnology in Young Adult Science Fiction

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Creating Digital Sci-Fi Narratives through Multimodal Composing to Promote Adolescent Students’ STEM Education

Creating Digital Sci-Fi Narratives through Multimodal Composing to Promote Adolescent Students’ STEM Education

‘Youth theory’: a response to aetonormativity

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

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