“Like other science and technology studies programs around the country and the world, this program will examine the histories and cultures of science, technology and medicine to understand the role that culture plays in the production of science and how changes in science and technology have shaped culture,” the dean said. Alluding to the SFTS mission statement, he noted that the UCR program “also uniquely emphasizes the role of popular culture and the genre of science fiction in particular in mediating public understandings of science, serving as an imaginative testing ground for technological innovation, and articulating hopes and anxieties regarding technocultural change.”(...)
“Conflations of science and the science fiction imagination define moments of intense technological change, such as the Space Race or the Human Genome Mapping Project,” she added. “Recently, industry has begun to pay attention to how this science fiction imaginary can marshal resources – material and intellectual – for technological innovation. Our program will build links between the cultural study of science in other disciplines such as sociology and history, enabling our students to understand and intervene in these ongoing exchanges among research, policy and popular culture.”
Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies programma van University of California Riverside.
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