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2. 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.
3. 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'.
4. 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.
5. Sierra club study shows who become activists
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Grunig, J.E. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08987
- Journal Title:
- Public Relations Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(3) : 3-24
- Notes:
- James E. Grunig Collection
6. Social media hypes about agro-food issues: activism, scandals and conflicts
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stevens, T.M. (author), Aarts, N. (author), Termeer, C.J.A.M. (author), and Dewulf, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11475
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 79: 23-34
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Analysis of five cases of peak social media activity in the Dutch livestock sector. Findings indicated that social media hypes revolved around activism, scandals, and conflicts - each with characteristic patterns of activity, framing, interaction and media interplay. "Our results show the need to adopt a proactive and interactive approach that transcends the view of social media as a mere communication channel to respond in crisis situations."
7. Teaching amid despair: global warming and Israeli wars on Lebanon
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Masri, Rania (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-10-16
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09764
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 1(2): 236-242
8. The ecological conscious consumer behaviour: are the activists different?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brochado, Ana (author), Teiga, Nídia (author), and Oliveira-Brochado, Fernando (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-11-27
- Published:
- USA: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08267
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 (2): 138-146
9. The environment in the age of the internet: activists, communication, and the digital landscape
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Graf, Heike (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers, Cambridge
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08814
- Notes:
- 175 pages.