21 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "This essay makes the argument for the centrality of communication in studying and developing community." Following discussion of general theoretical arguments affirming and advancing this case, the author examined a specific type of community-oriented communicative event - civic communion. "Civic communions are episodes of community interaction that function as rhetorical and performative civic sacraments bonding citizenry around the social and political structures of a specific locale."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26009
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Via CyberJournalist.net. 1 page., Describes how a core of volunteers set up "sort of a cooperative" in Deerfield, New Hampshire, to form a citizen-written newspaper.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21490
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Pages 194-198 in Peter F. Korsching and Judith Gildner (eds.), Interdependencies of agriculture and rural communities in the twenty-first century. Conference proceedings published by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. 237 pages.
