Author asks whether new communications technologies can solve global development problems, or are they just a new way to make old mistakes? Examines the assumption that if you move data around instead of physical objects, then you can reduce pollution and energy use significantly. For example, analyses need to include environmental costs of the computers and networks themselves.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19696
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165 pages, Authors use a case experience in Pakistan as a platform for examining broad issues of agricultural and rural development, including the role and operation of extension services.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37116
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See C37113 for original, Pages 312-333 in Kenneth B. Beesley, Hugh Millward, Brian Iilbery and Lisa Harrington (eds.), The new countryside: geographic perspectives on rural change. Brandon University (Rural Development Institute) and Saint Mary's University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. 490 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36257
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Pages 11-32 in Bruce Girard and Sean O. Siochru (eds.), Communicating in the information society, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland. 223 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00606
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Address for the World Summit for the Information Society, Geneva, December 11, 2003, at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Roundtable. 6 pages.
A study of the rise in popularity of radio in rural America in the 1920s and the portrayal of farmers in the press during this time. In the effort to promote the general value of radio, the press focused on how it was adopted by farmers. The media exaggerated the shortcomings of farm life, supporting the increasingly urban and modern way of life, and isolating and marginalizing rural dwellers.
