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2. Being left behind amidst Africa's rising imagery: the Maasai in the world of information and communication technologies (ICTs)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Otenyo, Eric E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11382
- Journal Title:
- Australasian Journal of Information Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 21
- Notes:
- 15 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., "In sum, the Africa rising myth and penetration of ICTs in rural areas masks the disposition of Maasai means of livelihood , and therefore worsening the groups' conditions of living.
3. Examining ethical typologies of agriculture and natural resources leaders: A Q Study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Giles, Michelle R. (author), Nash, Taylor (author), Greenhaw, Laura L. (author), Rampold, Shelli D. (author), and Hurdle, J. Clay (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Published:
- USA: American Association for Agricultural Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12671
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 63, N. 3
- Notes:
- 17 pages, This study sought to describe agriculture and natural resources (ANR) opinion leaders’ ethical orientations by illuminating how they determine what is right/wrong or good/bad when making decisions that impact the ANR industry. ANR leaders’ ethical perspectives impact decisions regarding complex critical issues and influence others’ behavior. We used Q methodology, and four typologies were revealed, including Principled, Industry-focused, Dutiful, and Multi-Hat Leaders. The methodological approach of Q methodology to identify common ethical perspectives among ANR leaders is unique. Leadership development practitioners and educators should encourage leaders to reflect on and be cognizant of their ethical beliefs, particularly when making high-stakes decisions with far-reaching implications and when representing others as industry leaders. Though each typology characterized was unique, they all relied on a combination of ethical perspectives to guide their decision making. This may be evidence of Kohlberg’s postconventional morality as leaders’ attempt to reconcile a multitude of perspectives while seeking solutions to complex problems. Ensuring ethical approaches to food and fiber production and consumption simultaneously with care for and preservation of natural resources begins with a clear understanding of leaders’ existing ethical perspectives.
4. The moral complexity of agriculture: a challenge for corporate social responsibility
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- de Olde, Evelien M. (author) and Valentinov, Vladislav (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- Germany: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12251
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 32, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Over the past decades, the modernization of agriculture in the Western world has contributed not only to a rapid increase in food production but also to environmental and societal concerns over issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, soil quality and biodiversity loss. Many of these concerns, for example those related to animal welfare or labor conditions, are stuck in controversies and apparently deadlocked debates. As a result we observe a paradox in which a wide range of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, originally seeking to reconnect agriculture and society, frequently provoke debate, conlfict, and protests. In order to make sense of this pattern, the present paper contends that Western agriculture is marked by moral complexity, i.e., the tendency of multiple legitimate moral standpoints to proliferate without the realistic prospect of a consensus. This contention is buttressed by a conceptual framework that draws inspiration the contemporary business ethics and systems-theoretic scholarship. From the systems-theoretic point of view, the evolution of moral complexity is traced back to the processes of agricultural modernization, specialization, and diferentiation, each of which suppresses the responsiveness of the economic and legal institutions to the full range of societal and environmental concerns about agriculture. From the business ethics point of view, moral complexity is shown to prevent the transformation of the ethical responsibilities into the legal and economic responsibilities despite the ongoing institutionalization of CSR. Navigating moral complexity is shown to require moral judgments which are necessarily personal and contestable. These judgments are implicated in those CSR initiatives that require dealing with trade-ofs among the different sustainability issues.
5. Using images of farmed animals in environmental advocacy: an antispeciesist, strategic visual communication proposal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fernández, Laura (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02
- Published:
- USA: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10227
- Journal Title:
- American Behavioral Scientist
- Notes:
- 19 pages., Via online journal., This article discusses two main issues: the historical invisibility of the role of animal agriculture in climate change and whether it is useful to include explicit violent images or “moral shock” of farmed animals in environmental advocacy campaigns to fight against climate change and environmental devastation. The claim will be explored at two levels: ethical and strategic. According to the current literature available, it will be argued that we have sound arguments to believe that using images of farmed animal suffering (including explicit violent images and moral shocks) is both an ethical and effective approach to reach the end of speciesist oppression and to mitigate climate change.
6. Which socio-economic indicators influence collective morality? Big data analysis on online Chinese social media
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zhang, Yu (author) and Yu, Feng (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2018-02-06
- Published:
- China
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09652
- Journal Title:
- Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
- Journal Title Details:
- 54(4) : 792-800
- Notes:
- Analysis of an online social microblog, Sina Weibo. Researchers found that "the poor and rich areas were more willing to behave immorally, and the relation between GDP and collective moral motivation was curved. Also, normal people were less ethical when prices increased than when incomes decreased. Ecological construction and the value added by industries which used more farmers and off-farm workers were both correlated with morality. We also found a dark side to science and technological innovation, which harmed collective morality when areas grew richer."