{"63468":{"#nid":"63468","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Yaszek on New Science and Technologies and Science-Fiction","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\n\n\u0022On a basic level,\nsci-fi is so appealing across media because it\u0027s the premier storytelling form\nof modernity,\u0022 said Lisa Yaszek, Associate Professor in the School of\nLiterature, Communication, and Culture, and president of the Science Fiction\nResearch Association. \u0022We live in a world so profoundly shaped by new sciences\nand technologies and the new realities they enable. Sci-fi is the one genre\nthat has all these story and character types set up to explore these questions,\u0022\nYaszek added. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Yahoo News - January 4, 2011\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20110104\/sc_space\/whywelovescifiitboldlygoeswhereotherstoriescant\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead full article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-01-13 13:19:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:15","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"kendo","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20110104\/sc_space\/whywelovescifiitboldlygoeswhereotherstoriescant","dateline":{"date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11021","name":"Lisa Yaszek"}],"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":""}}}