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    2. Do rural residents really use the Internet to build social capital? An empirical investigation

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Adams, Alison E. (author) and Stern, Michael J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30315
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1389-1422

    3. Do rural residents really use the Internet to build social capital? An empirical investigation

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Stern, Michael J. (author) and Adams, Alison E. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA: Sage Publications
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10205
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1389-1422
    Notes:
    Via online UI subscription, Recent research suggests that Internet usage can positively influence social capital in rural communities by fostering avenues for voluntary participation and creating social networks. Most of this research has examined whether Internet use is associated with participation in local organizations and social networks but not the means by which residents use the technology to learn about local activities. To address this gap in the literature, the authors use a mixed-methods approach in an isolated rural region of the western United States to evaluate how residents use their connections to maintain local social networks and learn about local community events and organizations. The authors show that Internet usage can play an important role in building social capital in rural communities, thus extending the systemic model of rural voluntary participation and community attachment. Implications for rural community development are addressed.

    4. Internet service provision in the U.S. counties: is spacial pattern a function of demand?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Khatiwada, Lila K. (author) and Pigg, Kenneth E. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10208
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1326-1343
    Notes:
    Via online UI subscription

    5. Rural and urban differences in the Internet Society - real and relatively important

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Stern, Michael J. (author) and Wellman, Barry (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10213
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1251-1256
    Notes:
    Via online UI subscription

    6. Rural and urban differences in the Internet society: real and relatively important

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wellman, Barry (author) and Stern, Michael J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30312
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1251-1256
    Notes:
    Introduction to a special issue of the journal.

    7. Rural-urban differences in general and health-related Internet use

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hale, Timothy M. (author), Cotten, Shelia R. (author), Drentea, Patricia (author), and Goldner, Melinda (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10209
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    52(9) : 1304-1325
    Notes:
    Via online UI subscription

    8. Rural-urban differences in general and health-related Internet use

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hale, Timothy M. (author), Drentea, Patricia (author), and Goldner, Melinda (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30314
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1304-1325

    9. Small town in the Internet society: Chapleau is no longer an island

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Collins, Jessica L. (author) and Wellman, Barry (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Canada
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10207
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1344-1366
    Notes:
    Via online UI subscription

    13. The network in the garden: designing social media for rural life

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gilbert, Eric (author), Karahalios, Karrie (author), and Sandvig, Christian (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10206
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1367-1388
    Notes:
    Via online UI subscription.

    14. The network in the garden: designing social media for rural life

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gilbert, Eric (author), Karahalios, Karrie (author), and Sandvig, Christian (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30316
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1367-1388

    15. Using the Internet to survey small towns and communities: limitations and possibilities in the early 21st Century

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Smyth, Jolene D. (author), Dillman, Don A. (author), Christian, Leah Melani (author), and O'Neill, Allison C. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30311
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1423-1448

    16. Using the internet to survey small towns and communities: limitations and possibilities in the early 21st Century

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Smyth, Jolene D. (author), Dillman, Don A. (author), Christian, Leah Melani (author), and O'Neill, Allison C. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA: SAGE Journals
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10200
    Journal Title:
    American Behavioral Scientist
    Journal Title Details:
    53(9) : 1423-1448
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    pgs. 1423-1448, Via online journal, Researchers who are interested in small towns and rural communities in the United States often find that they need to conduct their own sample surveys because many large national surveys, such as the American Community Survey, do not collect enough representative responses to make precise estimates. In collecting their own survey data, researchers face a number of challenges, such as sampling and coverage limitations. This article summarizes those challenges and tests mail and Internet methodologies for collecting data in small towns and rural communities using the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivery Sequence File as a sample frame. Findings indicate that the Delivery Sequence File can be used to sample households in rural locations by sending them invitations via postal mail to respond to either paper-and-pencil or Internet surveys. Although the mail methodology is quite successful, the results for the Internet suggest that Web surveys alone exclude potentially important segments of the population of small towns and rural communities. However, Web surveys supplemented with postal questionnaires produce results quite similar to those of mail-only surveys, representing a possible cost savings for researchers who have access to Web survey capabilities.