International: Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C12681
Notes:
352 p., Accounts of "50 experiments in empowering people - living in poor countries across the world - to seize control of their own life stories and begin to change their circumstances of poverty, discrimination and exclusion." Case stories involve communication programs in more than 30 countries. Methods range from community radio and local theater to multi-media telecenters.
USA: University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21622
Notes:
237 pages, Includes a description of "Consumer Time," a radio program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and produced by Donald E. Montgomery, consumer's counsel for USDA beginning in 1935. At that time, the USDA was the only government agency with an "official" position devoted to the concerns of the consumer. (p. 145). Another program, "Consumer Flashes," was part of the "National Farm and Home Hour" broadcast on NBC "Red" Network. Also includes (p. 47) statistics showing how lower-income listeners made up about 80% of the U.S. radio audience in 1940. Programs such as the "National Barn Dance" on WLS Radio, Chicago, were cited as especially popular.
Rogers, Everett M. (author), Roy, Prodipto (author), Waisanen, Frederick B. (author), and Council for Social Development, New Delhi; Department of Communication and the International Communication Institute, Michigan State University; Department of Communication, Michigan State University
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1969
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 31 Document Number: B03078
Notes:
Mason E. Miller Collection, Hyderbad, Incia : National Institute of Community Development, 1969. 160 p.
