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2. A historical examination of food labeling policies and practices in the United States: implications for agricultural communications
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Powers, Rexanna (author) and Roberts, Richie (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-12-31
- Published:
- USA: American Association for Agricultural Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12938
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education
- Journal Title Details:
- V.63, N.4
- Notes:
- 20 pages, Knowledge of agricultural practices has declined in recent years, resulting in consumers becoming uncertain of where and how their food has been produced and the marketing tactics used to promote the product. Historically, the U.S. population’s rich agricultural heritage coincided with higher levels of agricultural literacy. Some scholars, however, have maintained that U.S. culture has begun to lose touch with its agricultural foundations. More recent evidence has demonstrated that consumers acquire knowledge about their food from various media, most notably the Internet and social media. Often these sources use incorrect information and promote food and agricultural marketing trends that may not be grounded in scientific data. In response, this historical narrative analyzed a reform effort that occurred in U.S. food labeling policy and practice in the 1900s, which contributed to food labeling issues and consumer distrust in the agricultural industry. Based on the findings of this investigation, we concluded that food labels were initially intended to provide consumers with more profound knowledge of the food they purchased. However, key legislative acts such as the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act and the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act shifted the food labeling movement into a branding device to differentiate products and brands. We recommend that agricultural practitioners explore new ways to communicate their message more effectively. We also call for producers to incorporate more personal and emotional appeals when marketing agricultural products to better compete with third-party branding efforts.
3. Facebook, contestation and poor people's politics: spanning the urban-rural divide in Cambodia?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hughes, Caroline (author) and Eng, Netra (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Cambodia: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 25 Document Number: D10541
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Contemporary Asia
- Journal Title Details:
- 49(3) : 365-388
- Notes:
- 25 pages., via online journal, Rural internet use, although still limited, is growing, raising the question of how rural people are using social media politically. As a vehicle of communication that permits the rapid transmission of information, images and text across space and connections between dispersed networks of individuals, does technological advance in rural areas presage significant political transformations? This article investigates this question in the light of a poor result for the Cambodian People’s Party in the 2013 elections, and the subsequent banning of the main opposition party, before the 2018 elections. Expanding internet use in rural areas has linked relatively quiescent rural Cambodians for the first time to networks of information about militant urban movements of the poor. Rural Cambodians are responding to this opportunity through strategies of quiet encroachment in cyberspace. This has had real effects on the nature of the relationship between the dominant party and the rural population and suggests the declining utility of the election-winning strategy used by the party since 1993. However, the extent of this virtual information revolution is limited, since neither the urban nor rural poor are mapping out new online political strategies, agendas or identities that can push Cambodia’s sclerotic politics in new directions.
4. One bad apple spoils the bunch? An exploration of broad consumption changes in response to food recalls
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Peake, Whitney O. (author), Detre, Joshua D. (author), and Carlson, Clinton C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11468
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 49 : 13-22
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription., Researchers surveyed 423 students enrolled in agriculture, business, and communication design courses at two universities, as well as Facebook users. Responses involving identified food recalls were analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings indicated that recall concern, propensity to reduce consumption beyond the recall parameters, and media reliance held strong, direct effects on broad consumption changes.
5. People have been faking it for years: photography
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fitzpatrick, Yael (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-05-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11988
- Journal Title:
- Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 340(6632) : 551
- Notes:
- Article reports on a current exhibition in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The title: "Faking it: manipulated photography before Photoshop.", It explores manipulation of nondigital photography from the 1840s through the early 1990s. "The images were modified in the service of art, politics, journalism, entertainment, or commerce."
6. Something new in the air: the story of First Peoples television broadcasting in Canada
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roth, Lorna (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, Canada.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24039
- Notes:
- 300 pages., Traces the development of indigenous television broadcasting within Canadian society from the 1960s to the present.
7. The Influence of Framing Effects on Public Opinion of Antibiotic use in Livestock
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Steede, Garrett M. (author), Meyers, Courtney (author), and Li, Nan (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01-01
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11861
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 2, Volume 104
- Notes:
- 16 pages, After years of debates and opposition from pharmaceutical companies, the Final rule of the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) went into effect in January 2017 requiring antibiotics used for both humans and animals for the purpose of growth promotion to be discontinued. This study sought to determine the effects framing content regarding antibiotic use in livestock and antibiotic resistance had on public opinion. Using a between-subjects experimental survey research design, 297 respondents indicated their perceptions of antibiotic use in livestock and the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria before being randomly assigned to one of three conditions. Each condition was a mock Twitter account framed differently based on findings from previous studies. After reading their assigned mock Twitter page, respondents indicated their trust of the information contained in the account, their information seeking behavior, demographics, and their support for antibiotic use in livestock. Using an ANCOVA, results indicated the frame influenced trust of information (F = 8.7, p < .05) and information seeking behavior (F = 4.48, p = .01) while support was not significant (F = 2.7, p = .07). Results suggest the blame frame has the greatest influence on shaping public opinion of antibiotic use in livestock and the development of antibiotic resistance.
8. Using short wave and computers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1987-01
- Published:
- Ethiopia: Organizing Council for International Agricultural Communicators, Winrock International, Morrilton, Arkansas.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10000
- Journal Title:
- OCIAC Update
- Journal Title Details:
- 15 : 3
- Notes:
- This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- "International" file section -- "OCIAC" file folder.
9. Working ranch video goes viral on the first try: a sponsored post garners 2 million views after only a day on Facebook
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Peterson, Becky (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: D11249
- Journal Title:
- Folio
- Notes:
- Online via Folio.com. 3 pages., Article explains how Working Ranch magazine "broke the internet" with the magazine's first and only piece of sponsored content. It went viral and garnered nearly two million views, "bringing in 400-500 leads and dozens of sales to the unsuspecting advertiser."