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2. "The movement is my life": the psychology of animal rights activism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Herzog, Harold A. Jr. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D07050
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Social Issues
- Journal Title Details:
- 103-119
- Notes:
- Interviews with animal rights advocates prompt author to suggest that a satisfactory resolution of the debate over the use of animals can only emerge in an atmosphere of respect, communication and mutual understanding rather than through the "argumentation is war" model.
3. A situational theory of environmental issues, publics, and activists
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Grunig, James E. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- United States
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09064
- Notes:
- James E. Grunig Collection, Pages 50-82 in Grunig, Larissa A. (Ed.), Monographs in Environmental Education and Environmental Studies: Environmental activism revisited: The changing nature of communication through organizational public relations, special interest groups and the mass media. The North American Association for Environmental Education, Troy, Ohio. 32 pages.
4. Alternative media in suburban plantation culture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Caldwell, John T. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- USA: University of California Los Angeles
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09969
- Journal Title:
- Media, Culture & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 5
- Notes:
- 21 pages, This article reconsiders the concept of `alternative media', and describes a set of alternative media projects produced over six years in and around migrant farm worker camps in southern California. The media projects described here (small-format videos within marginalized labor communities), challenge assumptions about `alternative media' on three levels - as a theoretical concept, as media practice and as a political project. The article argues the need to attend to the complex spatial and institutional contexts that inflect and complicate any local alternative media project. This examination of how the lived spaces of the migrant camps are both avowed and effaced by local residents and contractors underscores the tortured logic of the region. The study reveals not just how the landed status quo organizes workers lives as parts of its `scenic' landscape. It also describes how indigenous `Mixteco' labor organizers simultaneously work to exploit and resist the same conditions. Occupying semi-public contact-zones and no-man's lands (legally ambiguous spaces), provides migrants with a material beach-head from which to claim other rights that have more legal teeth (including fair labor, health and safety, and civil rights laws). Compared to the conventional video forms the producers/researchers set out to produce, these practices suggested that migrants' unauthorized occupation of space is a consequential form of `alternative media' in its own right; a transnational community response to policies of globalization and `free-trade'.
5. Amazonian indigenous green: media and the ecologically noble savage
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Murphy, Patrick D. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08813
- Notes:
- Pages 117-143 in Patrick D. Murphy, The media commons: globalization and environmental discourses. United States: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield. 192 pages.
6. Behind a veil of secrecy: animal abuse, factory farms, and Ag-Gag legislation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fiber-Ostrow, Pamela (author) and Lovell, Jarret S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11527
- Journal Title:
- Contemporary Justice Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 19(2) : 230-249
- Notes:
- 21 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "This paper exposes the failure of government institutions to protect animals on factory farms while simultaneously silencing what is currently the only available mechanism for Americans to learn about abuse on factory farms. It also explores the Constitutional implications of Ag-Gag laws.
7. Communication at farmers’ markets: commodifying relationships, community and morality
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Garner, Benjamin (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-07-01
- Published:
- USA: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10231
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Creative Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(2) : 186-198
- Notes:
- 13 pages., Via online journal, Consumers are increasingly using their purchasing power to enact their politics and activism. I examine how consumption at farmers’ markets fits into this trend. The consumption of local and organic food and the number of farmers’ markets have drastically increased in recent years. This research examines the ways interpersonal relationships, community ties and morality (ethical consumption) relate to commodification at local farmers’ markets. Specifically, this research is framed through Marx’s understanding and critique of capitalism, including his concept of commodity fetishism. Using Radin’s (1996) indicia of commodification, I explore the degree to which relationships, community and morality either are commodifiable or resist commodification. Using a combination of extant literature as well as interview and observational data from a 2011–2012 market study, I discovered that relationships and community ties resist commodification but morality is commodifiable in this space. Specifically, I argue that the contingent and voluntary nature of human communication as a two-way process is one of the key reasons that interpersonal relationships and community ties resist commodification.
8. Constitutional inclusion of animal rights in Germany and Switzerland: how did animal protection become an issue of national importance?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Evans, Erin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D06992
- Journal Title:
- Society and Animals
- Journal Title Details:
- 18 : 231-250
9. Crowdsourcing change: An analysis of Twitter discourse on food waste and reduction strategies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Specht, Annie R. (author), Buck, Emily R. (author), and Ohio State University The Ohio State University Association for Communication Excellence
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 15 Document Number: D10432
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 103(2)
- Notes:
- 17 pages., Via online journal., Food waste has emerged as a major issue in the United States as the nation collectively sends more than 133 billion pounds of food to its landfills every year. In September 2015, the USDA and EPA announced an initiative to cut U.S. food waste in half by 2030. Between 2015 and 2016, nearly 100,000 posts about food waste have been published on Twitter, a microblogging platform that has been a hub of “slacktivism” since its inception in 2006. Using a conceptual framework of social cognitive theory, online activism, and crowdsourcing, we analyzed food waste conversation participants’ demographics, online communities, and proposed solutions. Data analysis was conducted with listening software Sysomos MAP and a qualitative content analysis of conversation content. The analysis revealed that more than 2,000 U.S. users engaged in the conversation, forming four discrete conversation communities led by influencers from government, news media, and environmental organizations. Proposed solutions to the food waste crisis included domestic or household behavior change, food-waste diversion and donation, recycling and upcycling, consumer education, and governmental action and policy. We recommend using Twitter to mine, test, and deploy solutions for combating food waste; engage with influential users; and disseminate materials for further research into the behavioral implications of online activism related to food waste.
10. Energy communication: theory and praxis towards a sustainable energy future
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cozen, Brian (author), Endres, Danielle (author), Rai Peterson, Tarla (author), Horton, Cristi (author), and Barnett, Joshua Trey (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-01
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10694
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(3): 289-294
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, and consumption. We then offer three generative directions for future research related to energy transitions as communicative processes: analysing campaigns’ strategic efforts, critically theorizing energy’s transnational power dynamics, and theorizing the energy democracy movement.
11. Facebook, contestation and poor people's politics: spanning the urban-rural divide in Cambodia?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hughes, Caroline (author) and Eng, Netra (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Cambodia: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 25 Document Number: D10541
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Contemporary Asia
- Journal Title Details:
- 49(3) : 365-388
- Notes:
- 25 pages., via online journal, Rural internet use, although still limited, is growing, raising the question of how rural people are using social media politically. As a vehicle of communication that permits the rapid transmission of information, images and text across space and connections between dispersed networks of individuals, does technological advance in rural areas presage significant political transformations? This article investigates this question in the light of a poor result for the Cambodian People’s Party in the 2013 elections, and the subsequent banning of the main opposition party, before the 2018 elections. Expanding internet use in rural areas has linked relatively quiescent rural Cambodians for the first time to networks of information about militant urban movements of the poor. Rural Cambodians are responding to this opportunity through strategies of quiet encroachment in cyberspace. This has had real effects on the nature of the relationship between the dominant party and the rural population and suggests the declining utility of the election-winning strategy used by the party since 1993. However, the extent of this virtual information revolution is limited, since neither the urban nor rural poor are mapping out new online political strategies, agendas or identities that can push Cambodia’s sclerotic politics in new directions.
12. Food justice and narrative ethics: reading stories for ethical awareness and activism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dixon, Beth A. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International: Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09973
- Notes:
- 177 pages.
13. Genetic modification, factory farms, and ALF: A focus group study of the Netflix original film Okja
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Steede, Garrett M. (author), Opat, Kelsi (author), Curren, Leah (author), and Irlbeck, Erica (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10139
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 102(4)
- Notes:
- 15 pages, via online journal article, Okja is a fictional Netflix original film that was released in 2017. Okja features a “super pig” that is owned by the large, agricultural company Mirando Corporation. Okja is raised by a young girl, Mija, and her grandfather in the South Korean mountains. The film climaxes when Mija and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) narrowly save Okja and a smuggled piglet from the slaughter process. The purpose of this study was to understand how college students responded to the film. The viewers of this film included students who were majoring in a field within the agricultural college (COA) at Texas Tech University as well as students who were majoring in a field outside of agriculture (NCOA). Emergent themes from this focus group study identified the film as overdramatized and that the film misrepresented food production. Previous knowledge and experiences impacted how viewers perceived the film with COA students indicating that Okja was portrayed more like a pet than as a food animal. Both COA and NCOA students indicated that their food purchasing decisions would not be affected by viewing the film. Findings suggested that entertainment films may not be an effective method for changing public opinion of agriculture and food production. Transparency in agriculture through real-life and real-time activities in a documentary style may serve a greater role in improving public opinion of food and agricultural production practices and industries.Findings from this study serve as an indicator of the role entertainment films play in swaying public opinion of food and agriculture.
14. Growing food, growing a movement: climate adaptation and civic agriculture in the southeastern united states
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Furman, Carrie (author), Roncoli, Carla (author), Nelson, Donald R (author), and Hoogenboom, Gerrit (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03
- Published:
- Netherlands: Springer Science & Business Media
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12244
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 31, iss. 1
- Notes:
- 15 pages, his article examines the role that civic agriculture in Georgia (US) plays in shaping attitudes, strategies, and relationships that foster both sustainability and adaptation to a changing climate. Civic agriculture is a social movement that attracts a specific type of "activist" farmer, who is linked to a strong social network that includes other farmers and consumers. Positioning farmers' practices within a social movement broadens the understanding of adaptive capacity beyond how farmers adapt to understand why they do so. By drawing upon qualitative and quantitative data and by focusing on the cosmological, organizational, and technical dimensions of the social movement, the study illuminates how social values and networks shape production and marketing strategies that enable farmers to share resources and risks. We propose a conceptual framework for understanding how technical and social strategies aimed to address the sustainability goals of the movement also increase adaptive capacity at multiple timescales. In conclusion, we outline directions for future research, including the need for longitudinal studies that focus on consumer motivation and willingness to pay, the effects of scale on consumer loyalty and producer cooperation, and the role of a social movement in climate change adaptation. Finally, we stress that farmers' ability to thrive in uncertain climate futures calls for transformative approaches to sustainable agriculture that support the development of strong social networks.
15. Hashtag hijacking and crowdsourcing transparency: social media affordances and the governance of farm animal protection
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rodak, Olga (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06
- Published:
- Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12240
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 37 Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 15 pages, The post-war Western world has seen a gradual shift from government to governance, a process that also concerned the issues related to agro-food sustainability, such as food quality, environmental impact, social justice, and farm animal welfare. Scholars believe that social media are a new site that reconfigures relations between various actors involved in the governance of these problems. However, empirical research on this matter remains scarce. This paper fills this gap by examining the case of Februdairy, a Twitter hashtag campaign to promote the British dairy industry, hijacked by animal protection activists. For this case, I employ the relational perspective on technology affordances—as operationalised by Faraj and Azad (in: Leonard et al. (eds), Materiality and organizing. Social interaction in a technological world, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012)—to highlight two distinct strategic modes of embracement of social media functionalities by the opposing groups: hashtag hijacking and crowdsourcing transparency. The analysis reveals also that a pre-existing social structure of the agro-food system conditions reconfiguration of social relations by technology in a way that actually strengthens the tendency to govern the issue of farm animal protection with market mechanisms.
16. Hello from the other side: popular culture, crisis, and climate activism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pezzullo, Phaedra C. (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2016-09-08
- Published:
- UK: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D08395
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (6): 803-806
17. High Country News
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hanscom, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Magazine
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02
- Published:
- USA: High Country News
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13022
- Journal Title Details:
- V.54, N.2
- Notes:
- 47 pages
18. Resurrection swamp, the
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Slepyan, Anya (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-03-02
- Published:
- United States: Daily Yonder, The
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12880
- Journal Title:
- Daily Yonder, The
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 4pgs, A wetland contaminated by industrial waste is slowly coming back to life. Nature’s tenacity found a powerful ally in a kayak tours operator and her many volunteers.
19. Review of a program of research on activism: incidence in four countries, activist publics, strategies of activist groups, and organizational responses to activism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Grunig, James E. (author) and Grunig, Larissa A. (author)
- Format:
- Presentation
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- Slovenia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 53 Document Number: D09000
- Notes:
- James E. Grunig Collection, Paper presented to the Fourth Public Relations Research Symposium, Managing Environmental Issues, Lake Bled, Slovenia, 66 pages.
20. Saving food: Food preservation as alternative food activism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Click, Melissa A. (author) and Ridberg, Ronit (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-09-16
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09771
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(3) : 301-317