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Set phasers to teach! : Star Trek in research and teaching / Stephan Rabitsch, Martin Gabriel, Wilfried Elmenreich, John N.A. Brown, editors.
LIBRA PN1992.8.S74 S48 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Star Trek television programs--History and criticism.
- Star Trek television programs.
- Star Trek films--History and criticism.
- Star Trek films.
- Television in education.
- Motion pictures in education.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 236 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on added title page: Use of Star Trek in research and teaching
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
- Summary:
- "For 50 years, Star Trek has been an inspiration to its fans around the world, helping them to dream of a better future. This inspiration has entered our culture and helped to shape much of the technology of the early 21st century. The contributors to this volume are researchers and teachers in a wide variety of disciplines; from astrophysics to ethnology, from English and history to medicine and video games, and from American studies to the study of collective computing systems. What the authors have in common is that some version of Star Trek has inspired them, not only in their dreams of what may be, but in the ways in which they work -- and teach others to work -- here in the real world. Introduced with references to Star Trek films and television shows, and illustrated with original cartoons, each of the 15 chapters included in this volume provides insights into research and teaching in this range of academic fields."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- "Where Many Books Have Gone Before" : Using Star Trek to Teach Literature / Elizabeth Baird Hardy
- From "Shalom Aleichem" to "Live Long and Prosper" : Engaging with Post-war American Jewish Identity via Star Trek : The Original Series / Erin K. Horakova
- "Wagon Wheels, Sails, and Warp Cores" : Star Trek and American Culture : Between Allegory and Worldbuilding / Stefan Rabitsch
- How to Name a Starship : Starfleet between Anglo-American Bias and the Ideals of Humanism / Martin Gabriel
- Computer of the Twenty-Third Century : Real-World HCI Based on Star Trek / Gehard Leitner and John N. A. Brown
- Energy System in Star Trek and Its Real-Life Counterparts / Wilfried Elmenreich
- "My People once lived in Caves" : Pre-modern Societies in Star Trek / Christian Domenig and Stefan Rabitsch
- "Ready to Beam Up" : Star Trek and its Interactions with Science, Research and Technology / Joachim Allgaier
- "Teaching with Trek" : Star Trek, the LGBTQ+ Community, and College Composition / Carey Millsap-Spears
- "Resistance is Futile" : Using the Borg to Teach Collective Computing Systems / Lukas Esterle
- Telepathic Pathology in Star Trek / Victor Grech
- Playing Captain Kirk : Designing a Video Games based on Star Trek / Mathias lux and John N. A. Brown
- To Seek Out New Forms of Knowledge : Viewing Star Trek as an Introduction to Cognitive Science and Ways of Thinking about Narrative, Theory of Mind, and Difference / Vivian Fumiko Chin
- La Forge's VISOR and the Pictures in Our Heads : Understanding Media Studies through Star Trek / Nathanael Bassett
- "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end" : Using Star Trek to Teach Scientific Thinking / John N. A. Brown.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783319737751
- 3319737759
- OCLC:
- 1015244959
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