Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25288
Notes:
Comments before the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadcast Localism, RM-10803. 2 pages., Author urged the Commission to seek ways to help maintain and encourage more localized agricultural programming on radio and television stations throughout the nation.
Cross, Al (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25730
Notes:
Via Institute web site. 3 pages., Paper presented at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. Emphasizes importance of addressing the needs of rural America through journalism.
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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23420
Notes:
From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report on discussion during a session of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication about the hub-to-spoke news production system used by Clear Channel Communications in radio programming.
