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2. Facebook and a farm crisis: FFA and online agricultural advocacy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kostelich, Callie (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11118
- Journal Title:
- Open Library of Humanities
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(1): 1-32
- Notes:
- 32 pages., via online journal., Following the March 2017 wildfire devastation in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, local chapters of the National FFA Organization actively engaged on social media to advocate for public response to the crisis. Twenty-three public Facebook posts from FFA chapters and affiliates demonstrate members’ engagement with agricultural issues in the United States, disrupting the generalization that young adults are disconnected from civic affairs. However, while Facebook served as an important platform for members’ ag-vocacy in the wake of the crisis, FFA chapter posts contain embedded traditional rural literacies, which are reflected in members’ collective identification with existing supporters of agricultural communities. While FFA chapters had the potential to advocate to a broad readership, the posts reveal the chapters’ way of reading the crisis and writing a response to it with an insular narrative. As a result, Facebook posts that target only limited audiences and/or appeal to readers with exclusionary collective identification result in the failure of entities, such as local FFA chapters, to capitalize on Facebook’s full potential as an advocacy tool to inform and engage large public audiences.
3. Managing Extension's internal brand: employees' perceptions of the functions and descriptors of Extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Settle, Quisto (author), Baker, Lauri M. (author), and Stebner, Scott (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07424
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 100(2) : 43-56
4. Organizations in hiding: appropriateness, effectiveness, and motivations for concealment
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sahay, Surabhi (author), Dwyer, Maria (author), Scott, Craig R. (author), Dadlani, Punit (author), and McKinley, Erin (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- USA: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10543
- Journal Title:
- Electronic Journal of Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(1&2)
- Notes:
- 23 pages, via online journal., Organizational scholarship has rarely considered various hidden organizations in our society. Thus, little is known about how organizations and their members conceal their identity from others and how outsiders might evaluate the appropriateness of, effectiveness of, and motivations for organizational concealment. Our study reports survey data assessing 14 different hidden organizations and their perceived concealment efforts. Additionally, we examine the appropriateness of three motivations for concealment and three attitudes related to concealment. Results suggest similarities and differences in the effectiveness and appropriateness of concealment efforts by various organizations. Additionally, perceived motivations for concealment explain concealment efforts for some types of organizations, but not others. We draw several conclusions from our findings, discuss scholarly and practical implications of this research, and suggest directions for future scholarship related to organizational concealment.