{"457311":{"#nid":"457311","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Brief History of Science Fiction\u0027s Journey to Mars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, professor of science fiction\u0026nbsp;studies in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication, \u003C\/strong\u003Etalks to the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/mars-in-science-fiction-history-lisa-yaszek\/\u0022\u003EDaily Dot\u003C\/a\u003E about the sudden resurgence of interest in Earth\u2019s nearest planetary neighbor, showing how the stories we tell ourselves about Mars change over time in tandem with the development of new technologies that quite literally provide new perspectives on the red planet. With new evidence suggesting the possibility of free-flowing water on Mars and the release of the blockbuster science fiction film \u003Cem\u003EThe Martian\u003C\/em\u003E, it seems that everyone has the red planet on their minds these days.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe immediate goal of this interview was to provide historical and cultural context for the recent resurgence of interest in Mars. The secondary goes was to demonstrate how faculty in the humanities at Georgia Tech can help us understand scientific, technological, and cultural developments from new perspectives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/mars-in-science-fiction-history-lisa-yaszek\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead full article in the \u003Cem\u003EDaily Dot.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27498","created_gmt":"2015-10-08 15:00:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:44","author":"Rachel Miles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Regents\u2019 Entrepreneurx","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/mars-in-science-fiction-history-lisa-yaszek\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"457301":{"id":"457301","type":"image","title":"Martians","body":null,"created":"1449256347","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:27","changed":"1475895202","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:22","alt":"Martians","file":{"fid":"203507","name":"martians.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/martians_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/martians_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":417627,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/martians_0.jpg?itok=8uaacoLs"}},"405971":{"id":"405971","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"76122","name":"lisayaszekweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lisayaszekweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lisayaszekweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77968,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lisayaszekweb.jpg?itok=epQ_tq0C"}}},"media_ids":["457301","405971"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"144241","name":"martians"},{"id":"167171","name":"science fiction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}