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.”
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23813
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E-Media Tidbits via Poynteronline. 1 page, Cites a rural newspaper editor who suggests: "As small papers concentrate their energy from print to digital, I think we are cutting off our collective noses to spite the face of community journalism - and not fighting for the attention of readers."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27910
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Updated version of a paper prepared for the International Research Foundation for Development World Forum 2005 Conference at La Marsa, Tunisia, November 14-16, 2005. 12 pages.
Toland, Janet (author) and Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Australia.
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Paper
Publication Date:
2009-09-03
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New Zealand
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30556
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Presented at the Prato CIRN Community Informatics Conference, Prato, Italy, November 4-6, 2009. 11 pages., Analyzes the development of soft networks and hard network created by information and communication technologies.
