18 pages, Digital agriculture has been developing rapidly over the past decade. However, studies have shown that the need for more ability to use these tools and the shortage of knowledge contribute to current farmer unease about digital technology. In response, this study investigated the influence of communication channels—mass media, social media, and interpersonal meetings—on farmers’ adoption, decision-making, and benefits obtained using technologies. The research uses data from 461 farmers in Brazil and 340 farmers in the United States, leaders in soybean production worldwide. The results show differences and similarities between these countries. LinkedIn has the highest positive association in Brazil between the communication channels and the digital agriculture technologies analyzed. In the United States, YouTube has the highest positive correlation. The overall influence of social media among Brazilian farmers is higher than among American farmers. The perceived benefits of using digital tools are more strongly associated with mass media communication in the United States than in Brazil. Regarding farm management decision-making, the study showed a higher relevance of interpersonal meetings in Brazil than in the United States. Findings can aid farmers, managers, academics and government decision makers to use communication channels more effectively in evaluating and adopting digital technologies.
International: Two Sides North America, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: D11534
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16 pages., Online from publisher website., "This survey provides insight into how consumers around the globe view, prefer and trust paper and print, from reading for leisure or gaining information to news or marketing collateral." Findings based on a representative international survey of more than 10,700 consumers in 10 countries.
Grebitus, Carola (author), Roosen, Jutta (author), and Seitz, Carolin (author)
Format:
Poster
Publication Date:
2014-05-01
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02726
Notes:
Poster presented at the 2014 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association joint AAEA/EAAE/CAES symposium: Social networks, social media and the economics of food, Montreal, Canada, May 29-30, 2014. 2 pages.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Dispelling common misconceptions, this book examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music until then played only by and for black audiences. Here, Birnbaum argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and R&B—a melange of genres that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into R&B.
Berghorn, Claudia (author), Berghorn, Hans-Heinrich (author), and International research project of the regional Farmers' Union, Westfaelisch-Lippischer Landwirtschaftsverband (WLV) with the support of the German and European Farmers' Unions (DBV/COPA).
Format:
Research report
Language:
German
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02697
Notes:
78 pages., Report of research by the authors in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland and the United States of America, August-December 2012.
The singing of capeyuye (the Mascogo—Black Seminole people—equivalent of the U.S. spiritual) became a significant token of individual and communal identity in that population. The life and career of Gertrudis Vázquez are studied as emblematic of that tradition. The technical aspects of capeyuye are described and its performance is examined with the context of Mascogo society, particularly its connection with important events such as funerals, birthdays, and other festive occasions.
International: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05712
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258 pages., "The developing world is littered with bodies of abandoned or dead development initiatives...Development dies on the very day that external and internal experts, without an understanding of the local setting, come in with their fancy ideas about implementing strategies and initiatives that do not build on local knowledge and strengths."
The African diaspora has been a key concept adopted by artists, activists, educators, and scholars committed to challenging the specific ways in which the marginalization of blackness has operated and continues to operate among Spanish-speaking Caribbeans and their descendants. This essay focuses on a relatively small network of New York roots musicians of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent who nevertheless have a strong impact on the way the concept of the African diaspora is argued for in local musical, educational, activist, and scholarly circles. They constitute a key component of what Rogers Brubaker has termed the “actively diasporan fraction” who seek “not so much to] describe the world as seek to remake it.” This article documents and analyzes these musicians' reliance on the concept of urban maroonage as a politicized permutation of the concept of the African diaspora and a central component of a liberation mythology and pedagogy. I propose that though this mythology and pedagogy often falls into what Brubaker has criticized as a “non-territorial form of essentialized belonging” it is at the same time a mythology that takes into account what Earl Lewis has termed “overlapping diasporas” as well as the shifting borders of diasporic identity that Juan Flores and others have explored—two key factors in the way diaspora is enacted, but that Brubaker himself fails to address properly.
There are many parallels between the music and worship of the African American Pentecostalism of the author’s upbringing and that of Afro-Caribbean religious groups, including Trinidadian Spiritual Baptists, the Haitian Heavenly Army, and Jamaican Revival Zionists. This can partly be attributed to their shared West African roots. Many features of West African worship have survived among these two geographically separate groups, including a heavy use of rhythm and percussion instruments, a call and response vocal form, and a climax of spirit possession, when congregants reach a state of rhythmically induced ecstasy in which they feel fully possessed by the divine. Both groups have also independently adopted white Christian hymnody, in which they stay true to the text but often change the music in an improvisatory style.
Anderson,William M., (Ed.And Pref.), Campbell,Patricia Shehan, (Ed.And Pref.), and Seeger,Anthony, (Foreword)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2011
Published:
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: William M. ANDERSON, Michael B. BAKAN, Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Jackie Chooi-theng LEW, Phong NGUYỄN, Pornprapit PHOASAVADI, Music of Southeast Asia (RILM ref]2010-13857/ref]); William M. ANDERSON, Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Teaching music from a multicultural perspective (RILM ref]2010-13846/ref]); William M. ANDERSON, Kuo-huang HAN, Tatsuko TAKIZAWA, Ricardo D. TRIMILLOS, Music of East Asia (RILM ref]2010-13856/ref]); William M. ANDERSON, Kristin Olson RAO, Music of South Asia: India (RILM ref]2010-13858/ref]); Sarah J. BARTOLOME, Pierre Cary (Kazadi wa Mukuna) KAZADI, Elizabeth OEHRLE, Music of sub-Saharan Africa (RILM ref]2010-13847/ref]); Bryan BURTON, Kay L. EDWARDS, Music of native peoples of North America (RILM ref]2010-13853/ref]); Milton L. BUTLER, Marvelene C. MOORE, Rosita M. SANDS, Linda B. WALKER, African American music (RILM ref]2010-13848/ref]); Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, David G. HEBERT, World beat (RILM ref]2010-13855/ref]); Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Ellen MCCULLOUGH-BRABSON, Euro-American music (RILM ref]2010-13852/ref]); Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Music of Europe (RILM ref]2010-13851/ref]); Ann C. CLEMENTS, Peter DUNBAR-HALL, Sarah H. WATTS, Music of Oceania and the Pacific (RILM ref]2010-13854/ref]); David G. HEBERT, Jazz and rock music (RILM ref]2010-13850/ref]); Rita KLINGER, Christopher ROBERTS, George D. SAWA, Terese VOLK TUOHEY, Music of the Middle East (RILM ref]2010-13859/ref]); Dale A. OLSEN, Milagros Agostini QUESADA, Amanda C. SOTO, Music of Latin America and the Caribbean (RILM ref]2010-13849/ref]). The first edition is abstracted as RILM ref]1990-07600/ref], the second as RILM ref]1996-23510/ref].
Belafonte,Harry, (Author) and Shnayerson,Michael, (Collab.)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2011
Published:
New York: Alfred A. Knopf
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
A personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America's greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists. Belafonte spent his childhood in both Harlem and Jamaica, where the toughness of the city and the resilient spirit of the Caribbean lifestyle instilled in him a tenacity to face the hurdles of life head-on and channel his anger into positive, life-affirming actions. He returned to New York City after serving in the Navy in World War II, and found his calling in the theater, before transitioning into a career as a singer and Hollywood leading man. During the 1960s civil rights movement, Belafonte became close friends with Martin Luther King, Jr., and used his celebrity as a platform for his activism in civil rights and countless other political and social causes. This book tells the inspiring story of an original and powerful entertainer who has always engaged fiercely with the issues of his day.
Examines the political and cultural possibilities and limits of the wide-ranging reggae scene that has emerged along both sides of the U.S./Mexico border since the 1990s. It investigates why and how members of seemingly disparate border communities, including Mexicanas/os, Chicanas/os, and Native Americans, find common social and political ground playing Afro-Caribbean inspired music. It also interrogates how people living in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have responded to the impact of economic and political globalization by using reggae to fashion multiethnic and post-national political formations and social relationships at the grassroots.
Examines the transplantation of the vocal romance from France to the Federalist U.S, focusing on romances by Eugène Guilbert (1758–1839) and Jean-Baptiste Renaud de Chateaudun (fl. 1795). The songs are described as both vehicles of nostalgia for the ancien régime and the French colony of Sainte-Domingue, and aspects of the new post-revolutionary reality. Both composers came from the Caribbean region and settled on the East Coast of the U.S.
Examines how Connecticut-born reggaetón artist Notch incorporates oratorical, visual, and musical cues in his music video, Qué te pica (What's itching you?), to establish connections between Latino and Caribbean communities in the U.S. These communities have typically been disavowed by hegemonic racial categories that distinguish between them. While Notch’s music disrupts these particular racial hierarchies, he also maintains hetero-normative patriarchal relations in his video. An analytic, Afro-Latino space is proposed to account for the ways that reggaetón as a musical genre, and Notch more specifically, unsettle certain distinctions between blackness and Latinidad, while simultaneously relying on stereotypes of black hypermasculinity.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02247
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Pages 35-37 in Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha (eds.), The green pen: environmental journalism in India and South Asia. Sage Publications India, New Delhi. 303 pages.
Culte, Cara L. (author), Schefske, Scott D. (author), Randolph, Elizabeth M. (author), Hooker, Neal H. (author), Nucci, Mary L. (author), Hallman, William K. (author), and Food Policy Institute, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2009-01-29
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01542
Notes:
Publication Number RR-1208-017. Via online. 17 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24394
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UPI via LexisNexis Academic. 2 pages., Discusses evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom showing that children eat more "after being bombarded with TV food ads."
Lindner, James R. (author) and Hynes, James W. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2006-05-14
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24507
Notes:
Retrieved June 16, 2006, Conference, Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education, May 14-17, 2006, at Clearwater Beach, Florida. 10 pages.
Wolfson, David J. (author) and Sullivan, Mariann (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
International: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01516
Notes:
Pages 205-233 in Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Animal rights: current debates and new directions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 338 pages.
Wolf, M. McGarry (author) and Domegan, C. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21692
Notes:
Pages 25-37 in Vittorio Santaniello, Robert E. Evenson and David Zilberman (eds.), Market development for genetically modified foods. CABI Publishing, Oxon, United Kingdom. 318 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: C20818
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, from "Integrating multiple landuse for a sustainable future" 15th European Seminar on Extension and Education, Wageningen International Conference Centre, The Netherlands, August 27-31, 2001
Yost, Kevin (author / Spectrum Communications, Inc.)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1993-02-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06655
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Paper presented at the Agricultural Relations Council Annual Meeting; 1993 February 11; Las Vegas, NE; Contains charts only, Mimeographed, 1993. 5 p.
AGRICOLA FNI 92002562, American science-media relations and regulatory changes concerning nutrition have an influence on the scientific community and the food industry in the UK. This article discusses several of these factors.
James F. Evans Collection, After purchase by seven employees in 1973, Farm Journal reduced circulation from more than 3 million to 800,000 and spun off four new free-standing magazines. Its controlled circulation to nation's largest farm operators made it the leading farm magazine, particularly attractive to advertisers. Its 1991 profit margin nearly 9%. Includes financial profile.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06574
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James F. Evans Collection, Washington, D.C. : 1992 U.S. Agricultural Communicators' Congress, 1992. 32 p., A report of the highlights of the 1992 U.S. Agricultural Communicators' Congress; 1992 June 28 - July 1; Washington, D.C.
Chern, Wen S. (author), Hushak, Leroy J. (author), Tweeten, Luther (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06500
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; See C06498 for book, In: Rueben C. Buse and James L. Driscoll, eds. Rural Information Systems: New Directions in Data Collection and Retrieval, 1992. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 118-213
James F. Evans Collection, The shared hopes of farm ownership in America motivated many Black farmers and educators during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although an independent Black yeomanry was not to be, and a host of factors have combined to remove Black Americans from farming, the quest has not been a vain one. Black land-grant institutions continue to redefine their mission in a changing world and in the process maintain their relevancy. (original).
Bonnen, James T. (author), Wimberly, Ronald (author), and Bonnen: Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Wimberly: Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06505
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; See C06498 for book, In: Buse, Rueben C. and Driscoll, James L., eds. Rural Information Systems : New Directions in Data Collection and Retrieval, 1992. Ames, IA : Iowa State University Press. p. 419-439
Deavers, Kenneth L. (author / Director, Agricultural and Rural Economy Division, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06499
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; See C06498 for book, In: Rueben C. Buse and James L. Driscoll, eds. Rural Information Systems: New Directions in Data Collection and Retrieval, 1992. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 24-51
Buse, Rueben C. (author), Driscoll, James L., eds. (author), and Buse: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Driscoll: Research and Development, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USDA, Kansas City, MO
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06498
Notes:
Contains Table of Contents only; See C06499-C06505 for individual chapters; James F. Evans Collection, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. 1992. 458 p.
AGRICOLA IND 92004221, County agents receive cost of production information primarily from state extension services and then disseminate it to agricultural producers. A survey gathered data on agent usage of this information. A Poisson regression analysis using count data was performed to determine the factors influencing the number of times county agents directly referred to published cost of production (enterprise budget) information in a year. The agent's understanding of budget information use in management decisions, the availability of budgets, and his/her receiving the budgets in multiple forms (e.g., sheets, booklets, or software) had significant positive impacts on the use of budgets by the agent. (original)
AGRICOLA IND 91034172, Ethical activity cannot be mandated, since ethics are an individual value system hat interacts with, and is supported or inhibited by, the moral values of society and any restrictive legislation. However, discussion of ethical topic areas assist in the establishment of individual and societal ethical standards. Extension specialists are characterized as being dedicated professionals; advocates of the industry and of consumers; and persons interested in the long-term success of the poultry system, which results in benefits to society. Too often, they also are characterized as accepting of situations that must be changed if the poultry system is to survive and to progress. Administrators have the power and, therefore, the responsibility to ensure policy decisions are ethical and to examine the long-term effects of those policy decisions. Many administrators have the respect of their agricultural industries and of Extension personnel because of the attempt to create an ethical environment. The objective of Extension personnel should not be ethical perfection, which is unattainable, but rather recognition of imperfections in themselves and the system with attempts to correct deficiencies. Basic questions of ethics or fairness should be discussed before attempting to create changes in individual behavior or in a system. There is little value to great philosophical debates or protestations of unethical behavior if there is no concurrent attempt to modify situations that led to initial ethical concerns. (original)
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology and (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06857
Notes:
Full Title: Copyright protection for computer software to enhance technology transfer : hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, July 18, 1991., AGRICOLA CAT 92983468; Contains Table of Contents only, Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1991. iii, 125 p.
Brosius, Hans-Bernd (author), Mundorf, Norbert (author), Staab, Joachim F. (author), and Brosius and Staab: Institut fur Publizistik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universtat Mainz, Germany; Mundorf: Department of Speech Communication, University of Rhode Island
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06470
James F. Evans Collection, This study provides a quantitative content analysis of the depictions of sex roles in the American news magazine Time and the West German news magazine Stern from 1969 to 1988. The underlying assumption of the study is that advertisements reflect changes in social reality. While most studies focus on explicit aspects of gender role depictions such as jobs, activities, interactions and situations, this content analysis also covers implicit aspects of role depictions such as posture, gestures, and facial expression. Some authors have claimed that these are powerful means of transmitting traditional sex role stereotypes of women as being submissive and of men being dominant. Results indicate that while there have been considerable changes in the explicit presentation of male and female roles, the implicit presentation remained quite consistent over the 20-year period. According to these findings, sex roles may have changed primarily on the surface, while nonverbal sex role stereotypes still linger on. Differences between the developments in Germany and the US are outlined. (original)
Wortman, Max S., Jr. (author / Pioneer Hi-Bred International Professor of Agribusiness, Department of Management, and Director, Center for Agribusiness Management, College of Business Administration, Iowa State University, Ames, IA)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-03
Published:
USA: New York : John Wiley & Sons
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06214
Hambley, Diane I. (author), Marquardt, Raymond A. (author), and College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-03
Published:
USA: New York : John Wiley & Sons
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06211
CCOD Agric/Bio Issue 9/21/90, The land-grant extension system has long been known as the best educational network in the world. Extension home economists are focusing much of their efforts in food, nutrition and health programming. Extension personnel are collaborating with other agricultural health professionals in programs designed to improve the nutritional quality of diets consumed by individuals in the United States. (original)
