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What is Speculative Fiction

Chapter 49
Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
can be related to a range of narrative forms that invite speculation about future possibilities and prospective responses to current situations. Writers and theorists like Donna Haraway, Ursula Le Guin and Noel Gough, for example, draw connections between a number of SF phrases: speculative fiction, science fiction, science fantasy, speculative futures, speculative fabulation. Gough uses the term in association with the notion of the fabulation.
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Teaching the Socio-Technical Practices of Tomorrow Today
Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson (University of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-264-0.ch049
Abstract
This chapter explores the challenges associated with teaching the principles of socio-technical systems in the dynamic climate that characterizes work in today’s—and tomorrow’s—world. Avoiding a “socio-technical gap” involves preparing the designers of tomorrow in such a way that they can anticipate society’s future needs and technology’s future potential and prospective peril. By way of a narrative that draws on the author’s own experiences teaching social informatics (SI) as part of an information studies degree program, this chapter discuss how her own research perspective in relation to socio-technical and social networking systems coevolves with the classroom experience. The case study offers examples of tutorial activities and assessments to illustrate how the suggested approach to teaching and learning can be applied in an STS classroom.
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