AIM. See Artificial Intelligence Meditations
Amateur literature Doctors and companions, 128
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 108
The Andromeda Strain (film), 22, 23
Apollonian–Dionysian
dichotomy, 149
ARDA. See Association of Religion Data Archives
Artificial General Intelligence, 190
Artificial intelligence, 75, 166–170, 174, 181
Artificial Intelligence Meditations (AIM), 167, 171–191
Artificial language, 4
Artificial social intelligence, 2, 4, 15
Artificial stupidity, 174
Asimov, Isaac, 112, 120
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), 53, 56
Associations as friendships, 79
Astounding Science Fiction, 108
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, 108
Audience-generated culture, 29–38
co-occurrence of characters, fan fiction stories, 37
game mission descriptors, correlation structure, 35–36
player-created game missions, 31
unit of analysis, 32, 34
Austen, Jane, 106
Automation, 184
Axelrod, Robert, 75
Balance theory, 86
Bandcamp music listings, 50
Bandcamp’s search engine, 50–52
Barry, Keith, 175
Baum, L. Frank, 125
The Behavior of Organisms
(Skinner), 80
Bellion, Jon, 125
Benedict, Ruth, 149
Berg, David, 54
Berger, Peter, 61
Berkeley, Edmund C., 102
Bester, Alfred, 103
Brontë, Emily, 106
Brynjolfsson, Erik, 183
Buddhism, 100
Campbell, John W., 108
Čapek, Karel, 125
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (Husserl), 61
Castillo, Carlos, 123
Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 146, 148
Children of God (CoG), 53–56
Children of the Apocalypse (CHOTA), 96–97
CHOTA. See Children of the Apocalypse
Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism (Glock and Stark), 77
Clement, Hal, 112
CoG. See Children of God
Cognitive science, 2
Cohen, Dan, 105
Collison, Patrick, 186
Commercial success, 153–162
Commission of crimes, 78–79
Comparative surveys across subcultures, 52–57
Compensators, 84
Computer-assisted Survey Methods (CSM) Program, 42
Computer games, simulated complex cultures, 89
Computer-generated graphics, 16
Conan stories (Howard), 106
Confirmatory analysis, 19
Convergence-divergence cycle, 7
Corbett, Tom, 122
Cult movement, 84
Cults, 5, 85
Cultural anthropology, 58
Cultural genetics, 5
Cultural relativism, 8, 24, 137
Cultural structure statistically through interlocks, 66–72
Cultural success, 153–162
Culture, definition of, 3
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 113
Deep neural networks, 75
The Demolished Man (Bester), 103
Descriptive use of language, 136
Dianetics, 112
Diaz, Fernando, 123
Differential associations, 80
Differential association theory, 78
Dionysianism, 149
Discourse on the Method (Descartes), 58
Divergence, 7
Doctor Who (British tv series), 127–130
Doggett, Laurence, 100
Dollard, John, 80
Durkheim, Emile, 52
East African ecosystem, 123
Ellison, Harlan, 121
Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (Rajlich), 14
Eroom’s Law, 185
Ethnography, phenomenological approach, 58–66
Ethnomethodology, 58, 60
The Evolution of Cooperation (Axelrod), 75
Explanations, 84
Exploratory analysis, 19
Expressive use of language, 136
Facebook groups, 70–72, 117, 119, 166–170
Faction
gross structure of, 94
reputations, 95
Factor analysis
confirmatory analysis, 19
definition of, 18
exploratory analysis, 19
modern machine learning, 18–19
of old but popular movies, 20
Factor analysis of data
classic science fiction, 18
cluster of types, 18
hard-science science fiction, 17
new-wave science fiction, 18
Fallout principle, 92
Family History Digital Libraries (Bainbridge), 167
Fanatics, 115
Fandom, 115
FanFiction.net, 130–131
Fan fiction online publications, thematic descriptions of, 132
Fantastic Voyage (film), 22, 23
Folk music, 51
Forbus, Kenneth, 2
Forrester, Jay, 75
“A Four-letter Word in ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover,’”(McIntosh), 142
The Freudian Calling (Rose), 14
Frustration and Aggression (Dollard, Miller), 80
A Game of Thrones (Martin), 12
Garfinkel, Harold, 61
General compensators, 84
General Semantics, 136
General Social Survey (GSS), 42–45, 53–56, 133
Gibbon, Edward, 113
Glock, Charles, 57, 77
God from the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition (Bainbridge), 86
Graves, Robert, 105
GSS. See General Social Survey
Gulick, Luther Halsey Jr., 99, 100
Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (Roco), 7
Heider, Fritz, 86
Heinlein, Robert A., 109, 121
Herbert, Frank, 110
Hobbes, Thomas, 8
Homans, George, 80
Horgan, John, 165
Horse opera, 111
Howard, Robert E., 106
Hubbard, L. Ron, 112, 119
The Human Group (Homans), 81
Humanistic scholarship, 8–13
Human societies, 45
Human translation, 147
Husserl, Edmund, 61
I Am Legend (Matheson), 23
IMDb. See Internet Movie Database
Information science, 4
Information society, 6
Intellectual property rights, 69
Interlingua, 4
Internet Movie Database (IMDb), 17, 23–26
Ishiguro, Hiroshi, 173
James, William, 82–83
The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 75
The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 76
K9 robots, 127
Kanazawa, Satoshi, 123
Kenzaki, Hikari, 64
Kiciman, Emre, 123
Knight, Will, 175
Korzybski, Alfred, 12, 13, 136
The Land That Time Forgot (film), 22, 23
Langer, Susanne K., 137
Language
descriptive use of, 136
expressive use of, 136
for social relationships, 146
subculture in wikis, 160
Lannister, Tyrion, 10
Larsen, Otto, 177
Laws of robotics, 114
Linguistics encyclopedia, 141
Linnaean taxonomy, 141–142
Literature creation and cultivation, 106–115
Lofland, John, 77
Lofland–Stark model, 88
Lofland–Stark theory, 78
Logan’s Run (film), 22, 23, 24
Lovecraft, H. P., 60
Luckman, Thomas, 61
MacDonald, Anson, 109
Machine learning, 75
Machine translation, 135
Magic, 84
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 58
Map-territory relation, 13
Martin, George R.R., 12, 137
Matheson, Richard, 23
McAfee, Andrew, 183
McIntosh, Angus, 142–143
Meme, definition of, 5
“Memetics: A Potential New Science” (Strong), 6
Merton, Robert K., 78, 172
Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Schelling), 75
Milestones and Millstones: Social Science at the National Science Foundation, 1945-1991 (Larsen), 178
Miller, Neal, 80
MIND. See Minimum Intelligent Neural Device
Minimum Intelligent Neural Device (MIND), 76–77
Moore’s Law, 185
Mori, Masahiro, 172
MovieLens database, 26–27
Multiple realities, 61
Music preferences, online surveys, 47
The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, 191
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 182
National Nanotechnology Initiative, 2, 3
Natural language processing, 135
NESFA. See New England Science Fiction Association
Netflix movie database, 28
New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA), 115–119, 121
Nielsen, Michael, 186
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 149
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 67
NIST. See National Institute of Standards and Technology
O’Donnell, Lawrence, 110
Olteanu, Alexandra, 123
The Omega Man (film), 22, 23
Omnivore theory, 48
Online fan fiction, 124–133
Online social media, 124
Online surveys, music
preferences, 47
Orwell, George, 67
Padgett, Lewis, 110
Parsons, Talcott, 178
Participant observation, 107
Particularism, 8
Patterns of Culture (Benedict), 149
Personal science, 60–61
Peterson, Richard A., 48
Phantasms, 62
Phenomenology, 58, 60
Philosophy in a New Key (Langer), 137, 138
“Pluralism and Responsibility in Post-Modern Science” (Toulmin), 179
Political conservatives, 178
The Prisoner (TV series), 66
Propositions, 81–82
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber), 52–53
The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (Heider), 86
Quantitative research methods, 124
Questionnaire research, 49
Race against the Machine (Brynjolfsson and McAfee), 183
Radical religious group, 77
Rajlich, Václav, 14
Religion, 84, 85
Religion, Deviance and Social Control (Stark), 53
Religious organizations, 84
ReverbNation website, 51–52
Robotics, laws of, 114
Roco, Mihail, 3, 7
Rose, Louis, 14
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 9
Rowling, J.K., 106
Rule-based reasoning, 76
Ryan, John, 48
Sapkowski, Andrzej, 155–159
Schelling, Thomas, 75
Schmidt, Benjamin, 176
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 149
Schulman, Ari, 172
Schutz, Alfred, 61
Schwartz, Barry, 186
Science fiction fandom, 115–124
SDA. See Survey Documentation and Analysis
Sect movement, 84
Set of axioms, 83
Shakespeare, William, 139–140
Shelly, Mary, 94, 98
Simulation
of religious culture, 75–85
of societal ideologies, 88–103
of sociocultural influences, 86–88
Skinner, B.F., 80
Skinnerian Behaviorist theory, 82
Smelser, Neil, 78
Smith, E.E., 111, 116
Soap opera, 111
Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (Homans), 81
Social contract theory, 9
Social implosion, 80
Social science, 4
The Social Structure of Online Communities (Bainbridge), 6, 166
Sociology Laboratory (Bainbridge), 86
Sorokin, Pitirim, 94, 102, 113, 126
Soylent Green (film), 22, 23
Space opera, 111
Spearman, Charles, 18
Specific compensators, 84
Spengler, Oswald, 94, 102, 113
Spohrer, Jim, 4
Stark, Rodney, 53, 57, 77
Strain theory, 78
Strong, Gary, 6
Studies in Ethnomethodology (Garfinkel), 61
Suicide (Durkheim), 52
Supernatural, 84
Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA), 42
Survey research, 49
Sutherland–Heider theory, 86
Technocracy, 173
A Theory of Religion, 83
The Phenomenology of the Social World (Schutz), 61
The Social Construction of Reality (Berger and Luckman), 61
Thrasher, Frederic, 92
Tolkien, J.R.R., 12
Toulmin, Stephen, 179
Translations, 137–139, 144, 147
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 185
Unit of analysis, 10, 32, 34
Universalism, 8
Usher, William, 98
Value, 9
van Vogt, A. E., 12, 111, 115
Variety, 9
Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities (Bainbridge), 66, 184
Virtual reality, parallel explorations of, 63
WAM. See Wiki Activity Monitor
Weber, Max, 52, 172
Westworld (film), 22, 23
Wiki Activity Monitor (WAM), 161
Wikipedia, 21, 23, 49, 50, 54, 91, 110, 153, 155–162
Witte, James, 46
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum), 125
Wood, Patrick, 173
The World as Will and Idea (Schopenhauer), 149
World Cultures (journal), 41
World Dynamics (Forrester), 75
YMCA. See Young Men’s Christian Association
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 100
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