{"575521":{"#nid":"575521","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What If Star Trek Had Never Existed?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek and Jay Telotte, professors in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, were quoted in \u0026quot;What If \u003Cem\u003EStar Trek\u003C\/em\u003E Had Never Existed?\u0026quot; by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWired.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\u0022 data-reactid=\u0022$15\u0022 data-type=\u0022text\u0022\u003EFans had been active in creating and shaping science fiction since the days of Hugo Gernsback, but\u0026nbsp;Trek\u0026nbsp;was the first big media franchise to engage fans in that way\u0026mdash;and the fans reacted in kind by\u0026nbsp;creating\u0026nbsp;media-oriented conventions of their own.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Isaac Asimov remembers casually walking over to the first\u0026nbsp;Star Trek\u0026nbsp;convention in the 1970s, expecting it to be a relatively small affair for maybe a few hundred fans at most,\u0026rdquo; says Lisa Yaszek, a Georgia Tech professor and author of\u0026nbsp;Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women\u0026rsquo;s Science Fiction. \u0026ldquo;But when he got there, he was surprised and delighted to see thousands of fans patiently waiting to get into a venue that, as it turned out, was far too small to accommodate everyone there.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/09\/imagining-a-world-without-star-trek\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-09-12 14:09:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:22","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"in solidarity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/09\/imagining-a-world-without-star-trek\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"283491":{"id":"283491","type":"image","title":"Jay Telotte","body":null,"created":"1449244199","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:59","changed":"1475894976","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:36","alt":"Jay Telotte","file":{"fid":"198983","name":"img_42.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_42_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_42_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2019,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_42_0.jpg?itok=aRiX8apj"}}},"media_ids":["283491"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}