This short communication presents preliminary notes about how to study the role of eschatology in contemporary economy, focusing specifically on space-colonizing ambitions US entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk. It is suggested that proposed research agenda focuses three problematics, relating immediacy, investment, and ideology. As such, text proposes making alternative futures by situating imagin...

Abstract Broader impacts (BI) policies generate debate on the purpose of science, measuring impact research, and is an important topic for science policy community. However, BI often fail to determine if R&D funding helps marginalized communities. This paper introduces a new framework, Inclusion-Immediacy Criterion, that assesses who benefits from research as divided into three groups: (1) ...

A multitude of factors influence interpersonal interaction between students and instructors in an online course. This study examines perceptions of six experienced online instructors to determine factors they believe increase interaction among their students and between the students and instructor of online courses. The end result is an inventory of strategies that can be used by novice and exp...

Live role-playing (LRP) games stand as powerful metaphorical models for the various digital and ubiquitous forms of entertainment that gather under the term pervasive games. Offering what can be regarded as the holy grail of interactive entertainment – the fully immersive experience – LRP games provide a tangible and distributed interface to a gaming activity that is emergent, improvised, colla...