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2. Building community through communication: the case for civic communion
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Procter, David E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D11519
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Community Development Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(2) : 53-72
- Notes:
- 21 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "This essay makes the argument for the centrality of communication in studying and developing community." Following discussion of general theoretical arguments affirming and advancing this case, the author examined a specific type of community-oriented communicative event - civic communion. "Civic communions are episodes of community interaction that function as rhetorical and performative civic sacraments bonding citizenry around the social and political structures of a specific locale."
3. Community image and community innovativeness
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Borich, Timothy O. (author), Korsching, Peter F. (author), and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- USA: Athens, GA : The University of Georgia.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05592
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Community Development Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 (1) : 1-18.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 90037907, The rural crisis of the 1980s exacerbated the chronic problem of maintaining basic public and private services in rural communities. Although the adoption of innovative service-delivery systems to address these concerns has occurred in rural communities, the extent of such adoption has been limited. Not enough knowledge is currently available on the adoption of innovations by communities to help community development practitioners develop effective diffusion self- images are less likely to be innovative than are more-confident and less-content communities. Results support the hypothesis that fatalistic communities are less innovative. Contrary to the hypothesis, however, rural communities with greater contentment are also more innovative. The findings indicate that community development practitioners need to consider a community's image before introducing new ideas and practices to a community for consideration and adoption.