A study of the rise in popularity of radio in rural America in the 1920s and the portrayal of farmers in the press during this time. In the effort to promote the general value of radio, the press focused on how it was adopted by farmers. The media exaggerated the shortcomings of farm life, supporting the increasingly urban and modern way of life, and isolating and marginalizing rural dwellers.
" Who can lament the passing of perpetual risk and fear, anyway? But probably we have lost something profound if corporate culture, like corporate farming, has eroded our lively old democratic pleasure in storytelling."
McMurry, Sally (author / Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) and Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 80 Document Number: C04640
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09587
Notes:
Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Speech to the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership, University of Missouri, Columbia. 15 pages., Suggests that the answer is "...nobody. The farmer, as always, is his own man."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23638
Notes:
Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005. 24 pages., Describes several early wireless groups, including the rural telephone cooperatives that emerged in the early 1900s because Bell and other independent companies had little interest in serving rural areas.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37110
Notes:
See C37105 for original, Pages 261-275 in Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Bakker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura and Mark Shucksmith (eds.), From community to consumption: new and classical themes in rural sociological research. Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 16. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, U.K. 275 pages., Case study of the "Rural Heroines Exciting Network" - one of the first national networks of women farmers in Japan.
