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Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Science & Popular Culture 4.2 is out now!

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Aims & Scope

Influences of science on popular culture may be direct or tangential, stark or subtle, overt or inexplicit. Similarly, the role of popular culture in framing and influencing science extends from the blatant to the almost imperceptible. Whatever form they take, these interactions warrant academic analysis. 

Working with a distinguished international board, the Journal of Science & Popular Culture aims to create a unique forum in which to analyse, chronicle, and interpret this diverse landscape through original research articles, editorials, book and new media reviews, notes and essays. The journal also provides a site where emerging and established scholars can access salient knowledge and cutting-edge research. Contributions from academics, scientists, communicators, industry professionals and practitioners with an interest in the science and society interface are invited.

Issue 4.2

Articles

Humour for change? Melting ice and environmental fragility in the animated film comedies Ice Age: The Meltdown and Happy Feet Two

PARTH THAKER, ANNA-SOPHIE JÜRGENS, KARINA JUDD, ANASTASIYA FIADOTAVA, ANNE HEMKENDREIS AND CHRISTOPHER HOLLIDAY

Whose eggs are these? Gender in ocean-themed picture books

PAUL VENZO, LARA HEDBERG AND PRUE FRANCIS

Representations of robotics and AI in Westworld (1973–2016): A sociological analysis of the imagery of science and technology in popular culture

A. ERIK STENGLER, ANTONIO CAMORRINO AND ANNA RUTENBECK

Being the environment: Conveying environmental fragility and sustainability through Indigenous biocultural knowledge in contemporary Indigenous Australian science fiction

ISABEL RICHARDS AND ANNA-SOPHIE JÜRGENS