Online from publisher via subscription., Instagram-ready installations often frame the desert as austere. What are the alternative ways of looking at the land? Author invites engaging with the reality of the desert rather than the cartoon of it.
1 page., Author expresses concerns about disappearance of trustworthy news content and urges agricultural readers to be "cautious in whom you trust and what you believe in the 24/7 news cycle. We deserve to know all sides of a story, not just the one that the 'conservative' or 'liberal' media outlet wants you to believe."
Via online. 28 pages., Involves Facebook responses of local chapters of the National FFA Organization involving a 2017 wildfire devastation in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Author's analysis of 23 public posts led to an observation that the FFA chapter posts contained embedded traditional rural literacies and insular narrative. Observed failure to capitalize on Facebook's potential as an advocacy tool to inform and engage large public audiences.
3 pages., Online from publisher., Farm broadcaster describes how he and his associate are adjusting farm reporting activities during restrictions caused by the current COVID-19 pandemic.
12 pages., Authors presented an algorithm to analyze the behaviour of users of Twitter involving the environment and health care. To illustrate, they presented a concrete example of how the associated graph structure of the tweets related to World Environment Day 2019 was used to develop a heuristic analysis of the validity of the information.
International: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11692
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2 pages., Online from organization website., In an online event, United Nations leaders and others emphasize importance of free, independent, fact-based journalism at the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2020."I takes journalism to communicate the findings of scientists and disseminate real and reliable information and counter fake news that is dangerous to people's lives and to efforts to contain the spread of the (COVID-19) pandemic."
Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Australia-based university educators evaluated learner participation and perceptions in an evidence-based Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) about nutrition and provided recommendations for engaging international online lay audiences with diverse backgrounds. Findings highlighted complexities of delivering such education "in the online space crowded with food advertising and nutrition conjecture."
International: Zimmcomm New Media, Cantonment, Florida.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12106
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Online from ZimmComm News Media. 2 pages., A pioneer in agricultural uses of new social media expresses concern about FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube having become political weapons. "Since the election, the level of censorship on all of the major social media platforms has just skyrocketed. Never in our wildest dreams did we ever think that freedom of speech and the press might be endangered in this country, but we do believe it is right now." FaceBook and Twitter platforms "are both essentially business platforms. Author reports a decision to put a temporary hold on ZimmComm business FaceBook accounts.
