Red Planet
Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars
Helen Burgess, Robert Markley, Harrison Higgs & Michelle Kendrick
Red Planet
Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars
Helen Burgess, Robert Markley, Harrison Higgs & Michelle Kendrick
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English
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Description
"This interactive voyage to outer space, guided by leading authorities in the field, constitutes an entire multimedia Mars library. It features original interviews with best-selling science fiction writers, leading scientists, and visionaries."-Journal of College Science Teaching
"This interactive voyage to outer space, guided by leading authorities in the field, constitutes an entire multimedia Mars library. It features original interviews with best-selling science fiction writers, leading scientists, and visionaries. Plus, it includes animation, hundreds of pages of text, voiceover narration, biographies of key figures, bibliographies, and technical glossaries... This educational DVD-ROM uses the latest multimedia technology to provide a vast amount of in-depth, cross-disciplinary analysis of Mars as both an object of scientific study and a cultural artifact for students, independent researchers, and teachers, whether at home, in the library, or at school."-Journal of College Science Teaching "Far more exciting even that looking at the latest pictures from NASA's Martian toy-like rover, Red Planet is serious stuff for those with a spark within-and the DVD stokes the fire."-Science Fiction Studies
Robert Markley is Jackson Distinguished Chair of British Literature at West Virginia University and the author of numerous works in the cultural study of science, including Dying Planet: Mars and the Anxieties of Ecology from the Canals to Terraformation. Harrison Higgs, an artist and designer, directs the Multimedia Application Research Studio at Washington State University Vancouver. Michelle Kendrick teaches in Electronic Media and Culture at Washington State University Vancouver. She has published extensively on electronic media and contemporary theory. Helen Burgess is a research associate in computer science at the University of British Columbia.
"This interactive voyage to outer space, guided by leading authorities in the field, constitutes an entire multimedia Mars library. It features original interviews with best-selling science fiction writers, leading scientists, and visionaries. Plus, it includes animation, hundreds of pages of text, voiceover narration, biographies of key figures, bibliographies, and technical glossaries... This educational DVD-ROM uses the latest multimedia technology to provide a vast amount of in-depth, cross-disciplinary analysis of Mars as both an object of scientific study and a cultural artifact for students, independent researchers, and teachers, whether at home, in the library, or at school."-Journal of College Science Teaching "Far more exciting even that looking at the latest pictures from NASA's Martian toy-like rover, Red Planet is serious stuff for those with a spark within-and the DVD stokes the fire."-Science Fiction Studies
Robert Markley is Jackson Distinguished Chair of British Literature at West Virginia University and the author of numerous works in the cultural study of science, including Dying Planet: Mars and the Anxieties of Ecology from the Canals to Terraformation. Harrison Higgs, an artist and designer, directs the Multimedia Application Research Studio at Washington State University Vancouver. Michelle Kendrick teaches in Electronic Media and Culture at Washington State University Vancouver. She has published extensively on electronic media and contemporary theory. Helen Burgess is a research associate in computer science at the University of British Columbia.