Better for Whom? Leveling the Injustices of International Conferences by Moving Online
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چکیده
International conferences are an important component of the professional calendar scientists and practitioners in many fields, valued as opportunities to establish, create foster networks, wellbeing knowledge. The 2020 global pandemic, prohibiting large gatherings travel, has provided opportunity test feasibility implications a shift from in-person online conference formats. Avoiding international travel associated bureaucracy, time expense could overcome historic injustices preventing participating benefiting conferences, also avoid emissions with air travel. However, prior 2020, there been resistance moving these events because perception that value cannot be cultivated online. Here, we use example 6th Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC6), which moved response COVID-19 explore participants’ perceptions experiences potential effects on access inclusion. Our results show substantially increased accessibility for those who would unable attend event financial or personal reasons. Results indicate experience was able recreate some benefits events, participants interested attending virtual future. degree enjoyment experienced perceived ‘value’ likely relates frame reference individual participant commitment actively engage program. Reflecting success IMCC6, conclude holding online, at least including element part ‘hybrid’ model, is significant improvement capacity meet moral imperatives conservation community by addressing climate crisis systemic within field.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Marine Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2296-7745']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.638025