Summarizes activities at the first National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, convened by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
Posted at http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_06/uk/medias.htm, Via web site. 4 pages., "An Indian journalist rails against the growing rift in his country between mass media and mass relaity, a trend driven by increasing corporate control."
"The media contributed to the beginnings of a democratisation process when it acted as instrumental to forces opposed to an incumbent authoritative regime."
Posted at www.ageditors.com, Author emphasizes the continuing mission of agricultural journalists and encourages involvement in their professional organization.
"Farmers' lack of market power is the real enemy, so farmers and ranchers must work together to gain bargaining power, because, without it, independent farmers have little hope of survival." Mentions issue of farm organizations, agricultural trade and commodity groups misrepresenting their interests to Congress and policy makers by posing as the family farmer.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26480
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Pages 211-232 in Zachary Michael Jack (ed.), Love of the land: essential farm and conservation readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920. Cambria Press, Youngstown, New York. 463 pages., From an 1899 book by Adams, The modern farmer in his business relations (pages 39-50).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26481
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Pages 322-330 in Zachary Michael Jack (ed.), Love of the land: essential farm and conservation readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920. Cambria Press, Youngstown, New York. 463 pages., From a 1908 book by Sharp, The lay of the land. (pages 114-126)
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com/?i=October%202007, Describes ways in which several farm broadcasters are using new information technologies to complement their radio broadcast programming.
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com/?i=October%202007, Representatives of four media sales firms provide a current overview of the marketplace for farm broadcasting.
Describes conflict between a fruit corporation and farm workers trying to organize. Examines efforts by the corporation to eliminate unfavorable visual information, curb First Amendment rights of free speech and use negative communications.
"Discusses the role of social photography in effecting a change in the ideology of the American Dream from individualism to co-operation during the Great Depression of the 1930s." Focuses on the work of Farm Security Administration photographers of that period.
Author examines the way press photographers recorded the strike, "stating that the impact of the photographs was in the way they emphasized the importance of on-the-spot news photography. For the first time in California press photography, a 35mm camera was used."
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com, Article in "A salute to NAMA on its 50th," special supplement featuring the 50th anniversary of the National Agri-Marketing Association.
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com, Article in "A salute to NAMA on its 50th," special supplement featuring the 50th anniversary of the National Agri-Marketing Association.
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com, Discusses ways in which to make agri-marketing firms more innovative through involvement of personnel with diverse skills and interests.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26637
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Conference paper, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2 pages., "The lines between art photography, documentary, and photojournalism have increasingly blurred since the early 1980s." Author cites Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" image [disseminated through the Farm Security Administration] as an emblematic piece of concerned photography "now ubiquitous in realms quite removed from social concern for poverty."
1 page., "The question of reality is illustrated with the example of Arthur Rothstein's photography for the Farm Security Administration in 1936, and the issue of how much an image can be retouched before the fidelity of the image to nature is compromised."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26650
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Presented at the Conference on communication and empowerment: uses of media and information technologiesw in developing countries, Los Angeles, California, April 11-13, 1996. 17 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26657
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Presented at the Conference on communication and empowerment: uses of media and information technologies in developing countries, Los Angeles, California, April 11-13, 1996. 23 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26668
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Archived November 15, 2007, Nutra Ingredients via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Cites consensus of those attending a conference of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26736
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Pages 173-196 in Mary E. Pettenger (ed.), The social constructioin of climate change: power, knowledge, norms, discourses. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Hampshire, England. 255 pages.
Reports on a meeting of agriculture and journalism deans to examine agricultural journalism curricula. They hear calls for courses and curricula that encompass not only "micro" skills (e.g., writing and broadcasting techniques) but also "macro" aspects such as international communications, rural-urban issues and national food and agricultural policy concerns.
