{"id":18313,"date":"2016-02-19T09:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=18313"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:06","slug":"2016-discovery-lecture-the-new-communication-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2016\/2016-discovery-lecture-the-new-communication-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Discovery Lecture: The New Communication Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        2016 Discovery Lecture: The New Communication Climate\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Web and social media offer unprecedented connectivity but, without conscious effort, can insulate people from everyone but &#8220;friends&#8221; and from ideas that might challenge strongly-held beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 2016 Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 25, blogger and Pace University communications professor Andrew Revkin will describe extraordinary innovations showing how bottom-up and peer-to-peer communication can fill gaps as old information gatekeepers, from sage broadcasters to newspaper front pages (to university professors) lose influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture will begin at&nbsp;7 p.m. in the River Building&#8217;s second level conference rooms. <a href=\"http:\/\/events.carleton.ca\/the-new-communication-climate-2016-discovery-lecture\/#reg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register for the event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Web and social media offer unprecedented connectivity but, without conscious effort, can insulate people from everyone but &#8220;friends&#8221; and from ideas that might challenge strongly-held beliefs. During the 2016 Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 25, blogger and Pace University communications professor Andrew Revkin will describe extraordinary innovations showing how bottom-up and peer-to-peer communication can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40417,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions\/40417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}