Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36364
Notes:
Pages 243-262 in Benjamin M. Compaine (ed.), The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 357 pages., Author suggests that the digital divide may be disappearing on its own through declining cost, natural acculturation and growing availability. Observes that the lower cost of living in rural areas may more than compensate for having to pay higher rates closer to full cost of telecommunications.
Purvez, Salim Ahmed (author), Khan, Iqbal Alam (author), Khan, S.M. Zubair Ali (author), Seeley, Janet (author), and Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2003-04
Published:
United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28219
Notes:
Posted online at http://www.chronicpoverty.org/pdfs/2003conferencepapers/purvez.pdf, Presented at "Staying poor: chronic poverty and development policy," a conference at Manchester, UK from April 7-9, 2003.
Witherite, G. (author / Community Aide, Centre County, PA) and Community Aide, Centre County, PA
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1972
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 26 Document Number: B02653
Notes:
See B02289 for original; Phase 1, In: Communication for change with the rural disadvantaged : a workshop. Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences, 1972. p. 30-35
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29245
Notes:
Via KCET and "Documenting the Face of America" web site. 3 pages., Announcement and summary of a documentary about "the legendary group of New Deal-sponsored photographers who traversed the country in the 1930s and early 1940s to capture some of the most iconic images in history."
Discusses the career and contributions of Dorothea Lange in documenting, through her photography, the plight of impoverished agricultural workers in the West during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
