Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29978
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Presented at the Agricultural Communications Section of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Conference, Orlando, Florida, February 7-9, 2010. 24 pages.
House, Lisa (author), Fritz, Melanie (author), Ameseder, Christoph (author), Haas, Rainer (author), Meixner, Oliver (author), Dahl, Ellie (author), and Hofstede, Gert Jan (author)
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Paper
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2010-02-08
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International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35934
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In the Proceedings in Food System Dynamics 2010, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria, February 8-12, 2010. Pages 255-264.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30262
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7 pages., "If more of our news is going to be produced by non-traditional sources - like NGOs who have an interest in promoting their own agenda - how can news consumers sort through their sources and figure out who to believe?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00580
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Pages 63-80 in Arnold Pichot and Josef Lorenz (eds.) ICT for the next five billion people: information and communication for sustainable development. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 122 pages.
pgs. 1423-1448, Via online journal, Researchers who are interested in small towns and rural communities in the United States often find that they need to conduct their own sample surveys because many large national surveys, such as the American Community Survey, do not collect enough representative responses to make precise estimates. In collecting their own survey data, researchers face a number of challenges, such as sampling and coverage limitations. This article summarizes those challenges and tests mail and Internet methodologies for collecting data in small towns and rural communities using the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivery Sequence File as a sample frame. Findings indicate that the Delivery Sequence File can be used to sample households in rural locations by sending them invitations via postal mail to respond to either paper-and-pencil or Internet surveys. Although the mail methodology is quite successful, the results for the Internet suggest that Web surveys alone exclude potentially important segments of the population of small towns and rural communities. However, Web surveys supplemented with postal questionnaires produce results quite similar to those of mail-only surveys, representing a possible cost savings for researchers who have access to Web survey capabilities.
Via online issue. 1 page., Author describes highlights of a radio interview between Mike Adams of AgriTalk and Brian Walsh, author of a Time magazine article critical of modern food production methods in the U.S. Author describes his approach to the article. Document also identifies access to an audiocast of the 15-minute interview, Notes taken from the interview are attached to the document.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29251
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From BrownfieldAgNews via AgriMarketing update. 1 page., Reports on ag industry reactions to what one critic described as a "full-blown opinion piece disguised as news" in Time magazine.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29240
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Via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Organization criticizes lack of balance and one-sided reporting in a cover story, " America's food crisis and how to fix it," in Time magazine.
Via Drovers.com. 1 page., "Critics are crying foul over this week's Time magazine cover story." Includes links to reactions from others. Accompanying this document are notes from an AgriTalk radio interview with Daren Williams of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. A link identified in this document provides access to the 19:35-minute interview.
