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Is Hollywood Stimulating Scientific Curiosity or Ignorance?

in Credibility Blog by peyina August 16, 2007 at 4:29 pm

An article in the InformationWeek, August 15, 2007, presents perspectives and reports from educators and researchers about the role of Hollywood in scientific and technological literacy. Mentioned in the article are a paper by UCF professor Costas J. Efthimiou and former UCF physics chair R. A. Llewellyn titled “Hollywood Blockbusters: Unlimited Fun But Limited Science Literacy”, and a 2006 report by the Association of Computing Machinery on Globalization and Offshoring of Software. You can read the InformationWeek article here.

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