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American media franchise
Doom is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall. The series usually focuses on the exploits of an unnamed space marine operating under the auspices of the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), who fights hordes of demons and the undead to save Earth from an apocalyptic invasion. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Doom (franchise)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: From Doom-Scrolling to News Avoidance: Limiting News as a Wellbeing Strategy During COVID LockdownInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Doom Patrol, Book 1The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Doom and Boom on a Resilient Reef: Climate Change, Algal Overgrowth and Coral RecoveryCited 271 times
- Go sideways: Id SoftwareA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Doom (1993 video game)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Destiny, especially terrible.
Noun An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
Noun Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
Noun A law.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Doom and Boom on a Resilient Reef: Climate Change, Algal Overgrowth and Coral Recovery
Deadly Embrace: Sovereign and Financial Balance Sheets Doom Loops
Last-chance tourism: the boom, doom, and gloom of visiting vanishing destinations
Associational resistance and shared doom: effects of epibiosis on herbivory
Autonomic imbalance: prophet of doom or scope for hope?
Climate of hope or doom and gloom? Testing the climate change hope vs. fear communications debate through online videos
Gloom and doom? The future of marine capture fisheries
Are Direct Payments for Environmental Services Spelling Doom for Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics?
🆕 Influential since 2022
From Doom-Scrolling to News Avoidance: Limiting News as a Wellbeing Strategy During COVID Lockdown
Doom or Deliciousness: Challenges and Opportunities for Visualization in the Age of Generative Models
The climate-sovereign debt doom loop: what does the literature suggest?
It's not all doom and gloom: What the pandemic has taught us about digitally inclusive practices that support people with learning disabilities to access and use technologies
Optimal bailouts and the doom loop with a financial network
📚 Books worth reading
Doom Patrol, Book 1Grant Morrison · 2000
Doom patrolGerard Way · 2017
Doom patrolGrant Morrison · 2005
Digital WarfareCraig Wessel · 1996
Doom BattlebookRick Barba · 1994
Doom PatrolArnold Drake, Bob Haney · 1920
The lost episodes of DoomJonathan Mendoza · 1995
Infernal skyDafydd Ab Hugh · 1996
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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