{"392321":{"#nid":"392321","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Social Lives of Facts: Climate Change, Environmental Concern, and Digital Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/ccallison\u0022\u003ERSVP is requested\u003C\/a\u003E for planning purposes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETOPIC:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClimate change and issues related to environment-focused policy offer vital opportunities to investigate how scientific issues and predictions come to matter for wide publics. The work of diverse social groups demonstrate that an issue like climate change is experienced, understood, translated, and discussed differently in varied contexts. This talk will explore what role digital media platforms might play in mediating new and emerging voices, facilitating collaboration, and reconfiguring expertise on issues rooted in environmental concern.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk will draw on ethnographic work recently published in \u003Cem\u003EHow Climate Change Comes to Matter\u003C\/em\u003E (Duke University Press, 2014) as well as research on changing journalistic norms and practices and the role of digital media in multi-vocal, networked social movements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT THE SPEAKER:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003ECandis Callison is an Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia\u0027s Graduate School of Journalism where she conducts research on media, social movements, and science and environment issues. Candis received her PhD from MIT\u2019s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and previously worked in the U.S. and Canada as a journalist and producer in broadcast and online media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECosponsored by: Project One and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of British Columbia Assistant Professor Candis Callison to discuss how diverse social groups understand a complex issue.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"University of British Columbia Assistant Professor Candis Callison to discuss how diverse social groups understand a complex issue"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2015-03-31 15:48:00","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:37","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-04-14T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-04-14T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-04-14T16:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-04-14 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-04-14 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-04-14 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"395641":{"id":"395641","type":"image","title":"Social Lives of Facts Flier","body":null,"created":"1449246346","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:46","changed":"1475895112","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:52","alt":"Social Lives of Facts Flier","file":{"fid":"75662","name":"sociallives_flier.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sociallives_flier.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sociallives_flier.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":334213,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sociallives_flier.jpg?itok=QTrWn0A7"}}},"media_ids":["395641"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"url":"http:\/\/enrichment.gatech.edu\/project-one","title":"Project One"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"98291","name":" Experiential \u0026 Engaged Learning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"73931","name":"QEP"},{"id":"167070","name":"serve\u2022learn\u2022sustain"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}