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2. Genetic modification, factory farms, and ALF: A focus group study of the Netflix original film Okja
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Steede, Garrett M. (author), Opat, Kelsi (author), Curren, Leah (author), and Irlbeck, Erica (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10139
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 102(4)
- Notes:
- 15 pages, via online journal article, Okja is a fictional Netflix original film that was released in 2017. Okja features a “super pig” that is owned by the large, agricultural company Mirando Corporation. Okja is raised by a young girl, Mija, and her grandfather in the South Korean mountains. The film climaxes when Mija and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) narrowly save Okja and a smuggled piglet from the slaughter process. The purpose of this study was to understand how college students responded to the film. The viewers of this film included students who were majoring in a field within the agricultural college (COA) at Texas Tech University as well as students who were majoring in a field outside of agriculture (NCOA). Emergent themes from this focus group study identified the film as overdramatized and that the film misrepresented food production. Previous knowledge and experiences impacted how viewers perceived the film with COA students indicating that Okja was portrayed more like a pet than as a food animal. Both COA and NCOA students indicated that their food purchasing decisions would not be affected by viewing the film. Findings suggested that entertainment films may not be an effective method for changing public opinion of agriculture and food production. Transparency in agriculture through real-life and real-time activities in a documentary style may serve a greater role in improving public opinion of food and agricultural production practices and industries.Findings from this study serve as an indicator of the role entertainment films play in swaying public opinion of food and agriculture.
3. Loss aversion and regulatory focus effects in the absence of numbers: qualitatively framing equivalent messages on food labels
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abrams, Katie M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06429
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 99(3) : 21-36
4. Making a case for McDonald's: a qualitative case study examining the McDonald's "Our Food Your Questions" campaign
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gorham, Laura M. (author), Gibson, Courtney (author), and Irlbeck, Erica (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08166
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 100(4) : 17-32
5. Selected consumers' evaluations of genetically modified food labels
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miller, Jefferson D. (author) and Meyers, Courtney (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27743
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 91(1/2) : 15-29
6. The effects of online video on consumers’ attitudes toward local food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Qu, Shuyang (author), Rumble, Joy N. (author), Telg, Ricky (author), Lamm, Alexa (author), and University of Florida Iowa State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 2 Document Number: D10171
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 101(4)
- Notes:
- 22 pages, via online journal, Marketers rate online video as their most utilized content medium. This study used a between-subject control group post-test-only experiment to investigate the effect of three local food messages delivered via online video on U.S. consumers’ attitudes toward local food. The three 30-second videos each featured one of the documented benefits of local food: high quality, support of local economy, and strengthening of social connection. Results indicated all three video treatments yielded a positive attitude toward local food, while respondents in the control group had a neutral attitude. The video treatment featuring local food’s high quality generated a significantly more favorable local food attitude than the other two video treatments. Although the social connection video treatment generated a positive attitude toward local food based on the real limits, it did not significantly differentiate from the control group. Communicators should consider using similar short, online videos for emphasizing the high quality of local food and its support of the local economy to promote local agricultural products. Future research should pair live-action or animated footage with the same messages in the video treatments to identify messages effectiveness. Researchers should also investigate why some individuals respond to local food’s benefit of social connection more readily than the others, and identify strategies to use social connection media frame to promote local food.