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    1. An evaluation of festival activities as motives for festival attendance: a case study of Strawberry festival at the Redberry farm in George, South Africa

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ramukumba, Takalani (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017
    Published:
    South Africa
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11369
    Journal Title:
    African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
    Journal Title Details:
    6(4)
    Notes:
    12 pages., Online via open access. 11 pages., Findings from a case study prompted author to assert that it is imperative that festival organizers understand tourist motivations for attending festivals in order to conduct effective festival planning and achieve productive festival marketing position.

    2. Comparing cross-national coverage of genetically modified organisms: a community structure approach

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Pollock, John C. (author), Peitz, Krysti (author), Watson, Elizabeth (author), Esposito, Cara (author), Nichilo, Phil (author), Etheridge, James (author), Morgan, Melissa (author), and Hart-McGonigle, Taylor (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017
    Published:
    Springer
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10865
    Journal Title:
    Global Health Communication
    Journal Title Details:
    94(2) 571–596
    Notes:
    26 pages., via online journal., A community structure analysis compared cross-national coverage of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) with variations in national-level demographics from 19 newspapers worldwide, yielding combined article “prominence” and “direction” “Media Vector” newspaper scores emphasizing either “favorable” (42%) or “unfavorable” (58%) coverage of GMOs. Regression analysis revealed “poverty level” (24.2% of variance) and “percent of agricultural land” (4.7%) totaled 28.9% of the variance, confirming that “vulnerability” indicators are associated with favorable media coverage of GMOs. Contrary to conventional “guard dog” assumptions that media mirror elite interests, systematic research on demographics and GMO coverage reveals that media can mirror the interests of society’s most “vulnerable.”