Rebich-Hespanha, Stacy (author), Rice, Ronald E. (author), Montello, Daniel R. (author), Retzloff, Sean (author), Tien, Sandrine (author), and Hespanha, João P. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2014-12-03
Published:
USA: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08436
6 pages., via website,Ryerson Review of Journalism., Between the hours of about 4 p.m. to midnight, Ashleigh Weeden goes dark. Not for the usual reasons, though. In Weeden’s southwestern Ontario town, the internet connection becomes—for all practical purposes—nonexistent during those hours. The PhD student at the University of Guelph lives in Ariss, Ontario, a “dispersed rural community” sandwiched between urban centres like Guelph and Kitchener. Despite paying about $250 monthly for internet access, she finds herself shut out of the internet. “…[S]ometimes [internet speed] goes one, maybe half a megabyte down,” she says. “I can’t grade, I can’t do anything, there’s no point, I might as well give up until about midnight.”
April 19 issue via online. 9 pages., "With the rise of legal marijuana across the country, the publishing industry is also seeing an increase in print magazines and new media brands focused on cannabis to meet growing demand for news and insight related to the upstart industry."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08296
Notes:
Presentation at MediaGrowth Executive Summit, Chicago, Illinois, April 5-7, 2017. 30 pages., Describes shifts in media during the past five years and implications for marketing and media organizations, with special emphasis on agriculture.
