Announces organization of the Association of Agricultural College Magazines. Six magazines as members. Magazines are published by students and circulated to graduates of the colleges and farmers in their respective states. "By associating they can offer an advertiser a large circulation among educated and prosperous farmers." Magazines represented: Cornell Countryman, Iowa Agriculturist, Purdue Agriculturist, Wisconsin Country Magazine, Penn State Farmer and Illinois Agriculturist.
Ruth, Taylor K. (author), Rumble, Joy N. (author), Galindo-Gonzalez, Sebastian (author), Lundy, Lisa K. (author), Carter, Hannah S. (author), Folta, Kevin M. (author), and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Ohio State University
University of Florida
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: D10430
24 pages., Via online journal., Faculty at land-grant universities are expected to engage in some form of Extension, or science communication, as part of the land-grant mission. However, critics have claimed these institutions are out of touch with their stakeholders’ needs and faculty mainly communicate with others in academia. This engagement with a homogenous group reflects the concepts of echo chambers, where people are only exposed to information that aligns with their beliefs and current knowledge and discredit opposing information. An explanatory mixed-methods design was used to understand land-grant faculty’s engagement in echo chambers. A survey was distributed to a census of tenure-track faculty in the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to understand respondents’ engagement in echo chambers. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 13 of the survey respondents to further explore their audiences and channels used in science communication to understand their engagement in echo chambers. Survey results indicated faculty did not necessarily participate in echo chambers, but they also did not contribute to an open communication network. However, the interviews found participants were interested in reaching new audiences yet struggled to communicate with stakeholders. The participants also reported wanting to find alternative channels to peer reviewed journals to help disseminate their work. The findings from this study indicated faculty contributed to a type of echo chamber, but rather than viewing their stakeholders’ opinions as false, they simply did not hear the opinions. Agricultural communicators should work with land-grant faculty administrators to identify appropriate audiences and channels for science communication.
Hamrock, J. (author), Wheeler, M. (author), Yarbrough, F. (author), and Yarbrough, P. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00575
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, Presented to the National Conference on International Agricultural Programs and Agricultural Communications, St. Louis, Missouri, Feb. 13, 1985. Reprint
Ward, W.B. (author / Cornell University) and Cornell University
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1963
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05567
Notes:
William B. Ward Collection, A statement presented before the administrative board of the Cornell Unniversity Council, New York City, November 15, 1963. 16 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01585
Notes:
Pages 404-405 in Donald E. Green, A history of the Oklahoma State University Division of Agriculture. Centennial Histories Series. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. 472 pages., Brief description of the origins and development of the Department of Agricultural Communications in the Division of Agriculture, Oklahoma State University. Includes a list of staff members and their dates of service in the Department.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: C08778
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: One hundred years of agricultural research at Cornell University: a celebration of the centennial of the Hatch Act, 1887-1987.
