I have just found...

[shadowravyn]

...my niche in academia. There's a respected scholarly journal called Science Fiction Studies, devoted to all things genre. From the few articles I've browsed through, I've seen sociological articles, book reviews, articles about Star Trek fandom, literary underpinnings in Sci Fi flicks, the importance of pulp...

Jstor, I love you.

Comments

[charmed1ofdoom]

The one thing I miss about college is the access to Jstor.

[sirroxton]

Seriously. One of these days, I'm going to wend my way onto campus and stick a proxy onto a lab computer.

[gower]

Where is that published out of?

[shadowravyn]

DePauw University, and published by SF-TH Inc

[pezzonovante]

I love SSRN for the same reason. I just found this legal research paper yesterday.

Dragon Kill Points: A Summary Whitepaper

This piece briefly describes the self-enforcing and non-pecuniary resource allocation system used by players in virtual worlds to allocate goods produced by a combination of player effort (the effort required to organize a group and overcome challenges) and the game itself (which "generates the good" - the input here is the time of the design staff).

[gunthersdncemix]

You know JSTOR is mostly for archiving older articles right? That means that there might be even more current sci-fi research out there. ;)

I met a faculty member once who teaches a course using themes from BSG. Apparently a whole book has been written on it from an academic perspective.

[ddrpolaris]

I don't know, maybe there's a journal on trends in hipster thought?

Just kidding, please don't kill me, even though I deserve it.