Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel
Academia, as many other sectors, has faced wide-ranging disruptions due to COVID-19, with teaching and research activity conducted entirely online in many countries. Before the pandemic grounded travel, academics were often hypermobile, some traveling more than 150,000 kilometers per year for confer...
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| description | Academia, as many other sectors, has faced wide-ranging disruptions due to COVID-19, with teaching and research activity conducted entirely online in many countries. Before the pandemic grounded travel, academics were often hypermobile, some traveling more than 150,000 kilometers per year for conferences, board meetings, collaborations, fieldwork,seminars, and lectures. It is no surprise then that academic flying is among the leading causes of universities’ greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Despite growing awareness surrounding GHG emissions from flying and calls for reducing aeromobility, academics have continued to travel. The COVID-19 pandemic, in equitably stopping all flying, offers a unique opportunity to study emerging low-GHG modes of academic internationalization. In this article, we look at academic internationalization, inspired by digital ethnography, to explore how the academic landscape has adapted to meet internationalization goals within the context of a sudden grounding of travel. By investigating flight-free academic internationalization, we illuminate some of the implications and discuss potential opportunities and challenges of achieving less GHG intensive academic internationalization. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-757f7b5855ac4fe9becad65ea05877912022-12-21T18:45:36ZengTaylor & Francis GroupSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy1548-77332021-01-0117129230410.1080/15487733.2021.19462971946297Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travelTullia Jack0Andrew Glover1Institute for Service Management, Lund UniversityDigital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT UniversityAcademia, as many other sectors, has faced wide-ranging disruptions due to COVID-19, with teaching and research activity conducted entirely online in many countries. Before the pandemic grounded travel, academics were often hypermobile, some traveling more than 150,000 kilometers per year for conferences, board meetings, collaborations, fieldwork,seminars, and lectures. It is no surprise then that academic flying is among the leading causes of universities’ greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Despite growing awareness surrounding GHG emissions from flying and calls for reducing aeromobility, academics have continued to travel. The COVID-19 pandemic, in equitably stopping all flying, offers a unique opportunity to study emerging low-GHG modes of academic internationalization. In this article, we look at academic internationalization, inspired by digital ethnography, to explore how the academic landscape has adapted to meet internationalization goals within the context of a sudden grounding of travel. By investigating flight-free academic internationalization, we illuminate some of the implications and discuss potential opportunities and challenges of achieving less GHG intensive academic internationalization.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1946297academiacovid-19air traveldigitalizationgreenhouse-gas emissionsinternationalizationonline conferencessustainability transitions |
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| title | Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel |
| title_full | Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel |
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| title_short | Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel |
| title_sort | online conferencing in the midst of covid 19 an already existing experiment in academic internationalization without air travel |
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