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2. Characterizing viewpoints of scholars in agricultural communications as they relate to research themes in the journal of applied communications: a q methodological study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Parrella, Jean A. (author), Spence, Jessica R. (author), Redwine, Tobin (author), and Leggette, Holli R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12404
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 105, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 27 pages, Research in agricultural communications is not guided by a national research agenda. Therefore, the substantial body of research produced from scholars working in the discipline represents scattered efforts. We conducted a content analysis of journal articles published in the Journal of Applied Communications between 2000 and 2019 to identify the research themes that establish the discipline’s scholarly base. Through an examination of n = 259 journal articles, we identified N = 27 research themes, the most prevalent of which included agriculture and media relations/practices (f = 30; % = 11.58), public perceptions/understanding of agriculture and natural resources (f = 25; % = 9.65), and agricultural communications academic programs and curricula (f = 21; % = 8.11). Then, we used Q methodology to identify viewpoints of agricultural communications scholars (e.g., faculty, graduate students; n = 45) as they relate to perceptions about the importance of research. We identified four dominant viewpoints of scholars in agricultural communications: Message Framing Influencers, Extension-Focused Scholars and Practitioners, Discipline-Conscious Researchers, and Tech-Savvy Scholars. Together, these viewpoints explained 59.43% of the study variance. Although participants who represented each of these groups had unique perspectives, participants generally agreed that public perceptions/understanding of agriculture and natural resources and crisis communications in agricultural communications were important research themes. Likewise, they generally agreed that the role of agricultural communications professional organizations, agricultural communications efforts during historical events, and agritourism were not important research themes.
3. Social media use for farmers market communications in illinois
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tao, Dandan (author), Ruth, Taylor Kathryne (author), Maxwell, Janie (author), and Feng, Hao (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12275
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- vol. 58, num. 6
- Notes:
- 9 pages, Social media has been recognized as a powerful tool supporting communication of many topics in the agriculture industry. We explored the use of social media platforms among farmers market managers and specialty crop growers in Illinois through an online survey. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter were platforms used by the majority of respondents. We found that social media was used primarily for communicating with consumers for marketing purposes. We identified major training needs of farmers market stakeholders related to using social media to promote business and convey food safety information.
4. Social-cognitive conceptualization of Iranian farmers’ water conservation behavior
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Valizadeh, Naser (author), Bijani, Masoud (author), Hayati, Dariush (author), and Haghighi, Negin Fallah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- United States: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12270
- Journal Title:
- Hydrogeology Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 27, iss. 4
- Notes:
- 12 pages, Many environmental dilemmas such as water scarcity originate from human behavior. This study aimed to analyze Iranian farmers’ water conservation behavior using Bandura’s social-cognitive theory. To this end, a cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect the required data. The research instrument was a questionnaire. A sample of 380 farmers was selected using a multistage stratified random sampling method. The results indicated that variables of social-cognitive theory could predict about 73% of farmers’ water conservation behavior variance. Investigation of direct effects of factors on farmers’ water conservation behavior revealed that the major determinants are as follows: intention of water conservation, social-structural factors, perception of others’ behavior, outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, and water conservation co-regulation. Findings showed that factors that have been mentioned in social-cognitive theory could be considered for enhancing farmers’ water conservation behaviors since the theory provides a more realistic insight into farmers’ behaviors with an emphasis on farmers’ social and structural contexts
5. Exploring agricultural communications students' perceptions of communication apprehension and writing apprehension in the classroom
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ahrens, Chelsey Ann (author), Meyers, Courtney (author), Irlbeck, Erica (author), Burris, Scott (author), and Roach, David (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01-01
- Published:
- USA: ERIC
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10161
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(2) : 119-133
- Notes:
- 15 pages., ISSN-1042-0541, Via ERIC., Employers have identified oral and written communications skills to be the most important skills graduates should possess when entering the workforce. In order for faculty to better understand their students' oral and written communications skills, they should understand what apprehension the students have toward oral and written communications. Specifically, no studies have been found that explore communication apprehension (CA) or writing apprehension (WA) in agricultural communications students. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore agricultural communications students' perceptions of CA and WA. Participants believe agricultural communications instructors set up an environment that is conducive to changing behavior. However, students realized and identified areas of improvement that could help them lower their CA and WA. Recommendations for practice are provided in order to help alleviate CA and WA in agricultural communications students.
6. Contribution of information and communication technology in improving access to market information among smallholder farmers: the case study of Kilosa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Njelekela, C Sanga, C. (author) and Sokoine University of Agriculture
- Format:
- Research Study
- Publication Date:
- 2015-07
- Published:
- United States: North American Institute of Science and Information Technology
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07395
- Journal Title:
- The International Journal of Management Science and Information Technology
- Journal Title Details:
- 17
- Notes:
- Study investigates the contribution of information and communication technology in improving access to market information among smallholder farmers.
7. Race Fundamentalism: Caribbean Theater and the Challenge to Black Diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chetty,Raj (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Washington: University of Washington
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 223 p., This dissertation engages with radical Caribbean theater as a crucial literary archive that is nonetheless underexplored as an expression of political culture and thought. The theoretical grounding of the chapters emerges from the analytically generative thrust of a comment by C. L. R. James in The Black Jacobins: "to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental." While the phrase asserts that race cannot be neglected, it also cautions against ensconcing race as fundamental analytical priority, suggesting a powerfully fluid conceptualization of radical political culture. Argues that radical theater projects in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic share this fluid conceptualization of radical politics with the Trinidadian James's own stage versions of the Haitian Revolution.
8. The Erotics of Ache: The Social Experience of Pleasure in Afro-Cuban Ritual Performance
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Valladares,Amy Daken (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New York: New York University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 277 p., Afro-Cuban (Santería ) drummers are trained ritual specialists in minority religious communities, initiated through secret rites into homosocial community groups. Historically, women and non-heteronormative men have been excluded from playing consecrated batá drums. This dissertation investigates how drummers construct the sensual and physical essence of musical sound around gender and sexual hierarchies in Afro-Cuban diasporic contexts (Havana, Miami, New York, and New Jersey). Drummers possess a theory of power based on concepts of how the feeling of aché (from Yoruban language, "the power to make things happen") is channeled during performance. Considers colonial-period Afro-Cuban social societies (cabildos ) as a source of possible residual patriarchal authority in the current male drumming cult community.
9. Decolonizing transnational subaltern women: The case of Kurasolenas and New York Dominicanas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cornet,Florencia V. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- South Carolina: University of South Carolina
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 351 p., Explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn Overzee: Een Familiezoektocht [Overseas Bloodline: A Family Search] (2002); Myra Römer's Het Geheim van Gracia [The Secret of Gracia] (2008). The Curaçaoan painters are: Jean Girigori (1948), Minerva Lauffer (1957) and Viviana (1972). The New York novels and performance text are: Black Artemis' Picture Me Rollin' (2005), Angie Cruz's Soledad (2003) and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints (2002) and Josefina Báez's Dominicanish (2000). The ways the women characters, figures, images and voices align to subvert gendered delineations as well as the stifling cultural and colonial imprints on their bodies and their selves in Curaçao and New York are central to the decolonizing project explored here.
10. Jamaican Mothers' Influences of Adolescent Girls' Sexual Beliefs and Behaviors
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Katherine Hutchinson,M. (Author), Kahwa,Eulalia (Author), Waldron,Norman (Author), Hepburn Brown,Cerese (Author), Hamilton,Pansy I. (Author), Hewitt,Hermi H. (Author), Aiken,Joyette (Author), Cederbaum,Julie (Author), Alter,Emily (Author), and Sweet Jemmott,Loretta (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(1) : 27-35
- Notes:
- The purpose of this study was to identify the ways in which urban Jamaican mothers influence their adolescent daughters' sexual beliefs and behaviors in order to incorporate them into the design of a family-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk reduction intervention program.
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