USA: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02153
Notes:
205 pages., Examines the contradictory cultural forces and value systems of rural and industrial communications. Offers a prospective model at the intersections between agriculture and professional communication in the form of a hybrid communication, "documents of coordination," designed to "go between minds, creating meanings and accommodating novelties to existing sets of beliefs and social institutions." Uses an extension project as a case analysis.
International: Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23079
Notes:
ISBN: 81-204-0833-0, 213 pages., From the back: One of the basic management functions of a good extension system is to improve the quality of extension contact with clientele. To be able to do this extension and research workers and policy makers must understand the process of communication at the problem solving level and have the knowledge and ability to plan an effective communication strategy and be able to select and use appropriate technologies and methods.
The major focus of the book is on concept building and on explanations of procedures at the application level.
It has been specially prepared for students in agricultural colleges and universities pursuing courses in communication process, extension teaching methods and audio visual aids. Besides it will help a large number of extension workers in the field with a mandate to transfer technology in a planned and effective manner in the areas of agriculture, health, family planning, rural development, etc.
The book introduces several new concepts such as communication competence, communication effectiveness, communication intelligence and deals critically and exhaustively with the current theories of communication with a touch of the author’s global experience. It also introduces several innovative extension teaching methods such as agricultural clinics, flag method, peripatetic team visits, agricultural games, etc
Evans, James F., eds. (author), Hays, Robert (author), and Hays: Associate Professor of Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Evans: Professor of Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 62 Document Number: C02027
Notes:
Three copies, Urbana, IL : Office of Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois, 1983. 53 p.
USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18110
Notes:
282 pages, Includes investigative reporting of irregularities and abuses in commodity trading (pages 44-48) and food companies selling surplus cyclamate products overseas after the U.S. government banned them (182-183).
