{"648367":{"#nid":"648367","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why Are We so Obsessed With UFOs? Here\u2019s How Aliens Invaded (and Conquered) Pop Culture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;Why Are We so Obsessed With UFOs? Here\u0026rsquo;s How Aliens Invaded (and Conquered) Pop Culture,\u0026quot; published June 24,\u0026nbsp;2021, in \u003Cem\u003EUSA Today.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article explored the reign of aliens and alien invasions in pop culture. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/lisa-yaszek\u0022\u003EYaszek \u003C\/a\u003Espoke about how UFOs and aliens have \u0026ldquo;long served as a funhouse mirror to ourselves as humans.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey represent both the familiar and the unfamiliar. When we speculate about UFOs, we\u0026rsquo;re also speculating about our hopes and fears, about our best and our worst selves and our society and even our species.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35826","created_gmt":"2021-06-25 13:21:30","changed_gmt":"2021-06-25 17:21:36","author":"mshepard31","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"sustainable fuels","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/entertainment\/2021\/06\/24\/ufos-pop-culture-what-our-alien-obsession-says-us\/5297909001\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647841":{"id":"647841","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1622232958","gmt_created":"2021-05-28 20:15:58","changed":"1622232970","gmt_changed":"2021-05-28 20:16:10","alt":"Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"245926","name":"YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":376888,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg?itok=ZF_BEo-E"}}},"media_ids":["647841"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}