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2. Left behind
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Goldman, Jordana (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-01
- Published:
- Canada: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10547
- Journal Title:
- Ryerson Review of Journalism
- Notes:
- 6 pages., via website,Ryerson Review of Journalism., Between the hours of about 4 p.m. to midnight, Ashleigh Weeden goes dark. Not for the usual reasons, though. In Weeden’s southwestern Ontario town, the internet connection becomes—for all practical purposes—nonexistent during those hours. The PhD student at the University of Guelph lives in Ariss, Ontario, a “dispersed rural community” sandwiched between urban centres like Guelph and Kitchener. Despite paying about $250 monthly for internet access, she finds herself shut out of the internet. “…[S]ometimes [internet speed] goes one, maybe half a megabyte down,” she says. “I can’t grade, I can’t do anything, there’s no point, I might as well give up until about midnight.”
3. Mobile technology and home broadband 2019
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, Monica (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11298
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Online from Internet and Technology, Pew Research Center., "37% of Americans go online mostly using a smartphone, and these devices are increasingly cited as a reason for not having a high-speed internet connection at home."
4. The one-traffic-light-town with some of the fastest internet in the U.S
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Halpern, Sue (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11098
- Journal Title:
- New Yorker
- Notes:
- Online from the New Yorker., Fibre-optic cables strung above a home in Jackson County, Kentucky, one of the poorest countries in the country. High-speed broadband has been used to bring internet-based jobs to the region.