Authors identify challenges and potentials for using new information technologies, such as the Internet, to help jobseekers in rural labour markets find employment. Social networks and telephone helplines were found to be used most at present.
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
Newsplex at the University of South Carolina., Author argues that the only things about convergence that are new are some terms and the fact that duties once the prerogative of the news editor and the photographer and techniques used in newspapers and magazines now are relegated to the news reporter.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23639
Notes:
Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005. 19 pages., Examines what Fourth Generation wireless broadband technology (e.g., for blogging, live television broadcasting, Web publication) may mean to newspapers in small communities. "The small-city newspaper must realize its own historical advantages in terms of depth reporting and its position as the community touchstone."
Crowder, L. Van (author), Truelove, Wendy (author), Dion, David (author), and Anderson, Jon (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36218
Notes:
Section 4 in Don Richardson and Lynnita Paisley (eds.), The first mile of connectivity, Communication for Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. Via online. 6 pages.
