{"id":626,"date":"2017-07-14T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/?p=626"},"modified":"2017-07-14T00:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:12:31","slug":"plastics-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/plastics-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PERC co-director Sy Taffel spoke to Radio New Zealand Nights about the virtuality of &#8220;The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic&#8221; conference. Likely the first of its type in New Zealand, the online conference is quite a new format, and as with all digital technologies the potential for future experimentation is great, and this conference is just a first attempt. The online conference format has benefit in the form of allowing greater access for people facing economic barriers to attending conferences that are international in scope, and a lessened environmental impact. However, whilst the fact the conference has no &#8216;live&#8217; aspect means that it is convenient for everyone, there is also a lack in terms of immediacy of response, and reduced social networking capacity. That said, for people in geographically isolated countries, such as New Zealand, where most conferences require a great deal of travel, online conferences provide a valuable supplement. To facilitate discussion on the online format, a plenary forum has been set up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/forums\/forum\/the-lives-and-afterlives-of-plastic-plenary-forum\/\">conference webpage<\/a> that conference attendees can take part in.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the full interview, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/nights\/audio\/201849901\/plastics-in-paradise\">RNZ website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERC co-director Sy Taffel spoke to Radio New Zealand Nights about the virtuality of &#8220;The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic&#8221; conference. Likely the first of its type in New Zealand, the online conference is quite a new format, and as with all digital technologies the potential for future experimentation is great, and this conference is just a first attempt. The &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/plastics-in-paradise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQ2HH-a6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}