{"624092":{"#nid":"624092","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Living in a Plastic World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/d88acb6a-0191-5b9b-87c4-206098c22f6f\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKatie Schaag\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently interviewed on \u003Cem\u003EWORT FM\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ein a segment entitled \u0026quot;Living in a Plastic World,\u0026quot; August 5.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead an excerpt here:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlastic is all around us: our electronics, our furniture, our clothes, our shoes\u0026mdash;and even our food. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to imagine a world without plastic. So what do we do with all of it?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn today\u0026rsquo;s show, we take a closer look at plastic through the lens of culture, health, and the environment with scholar and artist Katie Schaag, who taught a class on plastic at UW\u0026ndash;Madison last year, and David Pinsky with Greenpeace USA. They discuss the ethics of global plastic production and pollution, microplastics and health, the growing movement to ditch plastic straws, and much more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/katrinaschaag.wordpress.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKatie Schaag\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She is currently working on a book project,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAmerican Plasticity,\u003C\/em\u003Ewhich draws upon eco-criticism, queer theory, and neuroscience to theorize synthetic plastic aesthetics in contemporary performance art, visual art, and pop culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wortfm.org\/living-in-a-plastic-world\/\u0022\u003EListen to the full episode here.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-08-07 17:49:26","changed_gmt":"2019-08-07 17:49:26","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"french at georgia tech","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wortfm.org\/living-in-a-plastic-world\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"624091":{"id":"624091","type":"image","title":"Katie Schaag","body":null,"created":"1565200146","gmt_created":"2019-08-07 17:49:06","changed":"1565200146","gmt_changed":"2019-08-07 17:49:06","alt":"A portrait photo of Katie Schaag","file":{"fid":"237685","name":"schaag.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/schaag.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/schaag.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26090,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/schaag.jpg?itok=9QfXpTUD"}}},"media_ids":["624091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181925","name":"Katie Schaag"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}