Via online issue. 4 pages., Author describes "open access" journals and suggests web sites and searching methods agricultural journalists can use to gain access to them.
6 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Author analyzed case studies of corruption reported in 24/7 "convergent" media and concluded: "As the mainstream media is failing in exposing the enormous corruption in the government, there is a need to use the 'convergence' and 'blogging' to expose the corruption from the people side."
Newsplex at the University of South Carolina., Author argues that the only things about convergence that are new are some terms and the fact that duties once the prerogative of the news editor and the photographer and techniques used in newspapers and magazines now are relegated to the news reporter.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27734
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Available in CD and print formats., Abstracts of six papers presented to the Research Special Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, in Traverse City, Michigan, June 10, 2008. 10 pages., Titles: Genetically modified crops in developing countries: a meta-analysis of mass media coverage, public knowledge and attitudes; Conversations with gatekeepers: an exploratory study of agricultural publication editors' decisions to publish risk coverage; Branding the land-grant university: agricultural producers' and community leaders' awareness of the tripartite mission; Student publication's' place in agricultural communication curriculum; A content analysis of food safety measures on television's Food Network; and Food tube: online coverage of food safety.
