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2. Developing an international framework and agenda for agricultural communications research
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Irani, Tracy (author), Doerfert, David (author), Evans, James (author), and Cartmell, Dwayne (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28362
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 91(3&4) : 7-21
- Notes:
- Abstract posted at http://www.aceweb.org/jac/jac.html
3. Examining Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations to Inform Agricultural and Environmental Science Communication: A Meta-synthesis Approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fortner, Allison (author), Gibson, Kristin (author), Lamm, Alexa J. (author), Wilson, Madison (author), and Moore, Allen (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-05
- Published:
- United Staes: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12199
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 105 - Issue 2
- Notes:
- 19 Pages, Agriculturalists and environmentalists must navigate complex challenges as the global population continues to increase and environmental resources are depleted. Colleges of agricultural and environmental sciences are tasked with addressing the nexus between environmental and agricultural challenges through research, education, and communication. However, the amount of research being conducted with both agriculture and the environment considered is largely unknown and, as a result, their corresponding communication messages may not provide coherent messages from the college. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify if research within a college of agricultural and environmental sciences takes a holistic approach so that communication efforts coming from the college can encompass both perspectives. The data were collected from a web-based system containing university research publications and analyzed using a thematic analysis and meta-synthesis. The meta-synthesis revealed 212 codes overlapping agricultural and environmental themes compared to the total 4,325 codes found across all publications. The findings indicated there was a limited amount of collaboration occurring between environmental and agricultural researchers within the college. Without collaborative research, agricultural communicators cannot develop science communication efforts that holistically integrate evidence-based science. As new challenges emerge at the nexus of agriculture and the environment, researchers must shift toward a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to ensure the science communication efforts sharing their findings are inclusive.
4. FDA seeks opinions on communication of spinach recall
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Crowley, Laura (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-05-13
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27683
- Journal Title:
- Food Navigator
- Notes:
- via Food Safety News
5. Modes of communication and effectiveness of agroforestry extension in eastern India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Glendinning, A. (author), Mahapatra, A. (author), and Mitchell, C.P. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26387
- Journal Title:
- Human Ecology
- Journal Title Details:
- 29(3): 283-305
- Notes:
- 23 p.
6. Pretesting and evaluation of communication materials
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Escalada, M.M. (author / Visayas State University, Philippines)
- Format:
- Teaching material
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12090
- Notes:
- Handout 2 for Development Communication 132 course perhaps at Visayas State University, Philippines, where Monina Escalada taught in the Development Communication Department. 8 pages., How-to resource for pretesting and evaluating communication materials.
7. Show, Not Tell: The Contingency Role of Infographics Versus Text in the Differential Effects of Message Strategies on Optimistic Bias
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Huang, Guanxiong (author), Li, Kang (author), Li, Hairong (author), and City University of Hong Kong Zayed University Michigan State University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-19
- Published:
- China: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: D11241
- Journal Title:
- Science Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(6) : 732-760
- Notes:
- 29 pages, via online journal, Using an online between-subject experiment, this study tested the effects of message framing (gain vs. loss), reference point (self vs. other), and modality (text vs. infographics) in the scenario of recycling promotion. The findings identified that modality determines under what circumstances message strategies make a difference in risk perception and optimistic bias. In particular, only when paired with infographics and other-referencing point are loss-framed messages more effective than gain-framed messages in increasing risk perception and reducing the self-other gap in perceived benefits. Moreover, risk perception variables and the self-other risk perceptual gap were significant predictors of promoted behavioral intentions.
8. Transforming communication and knowledge production processes to address high-end climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tàbara, J. David (author), St. Clair, Asun Lera (author), and Hermansen, Erlend A.T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-01
- Published:
- Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10272
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Science and Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 70 : 31-37
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., Recent GHG emissions trends are in stark contrast with the Paris Agreement’s target to hold the increase in average global warming to “well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to stay below 1,5 °C” by the end of the century compared with preindustrial times. This disconnect has further unveiled the limitations of current knowledge production and communication processes in Southern European countries, where fast institutional changes are needed to address the potential impacts as well as the opportunities for transformation derived from High-End Climate Change (HECC). The prevailing knowledge deficit-model – aimed at producing ‘more knowledge’ about climate impacts, vulnerabilities and long-term scenarios to decision makers – has long proven inadequate in tackling the many complexities of the present socio-climate quandary. The growing emphasis on assessing and implementing concrete solutions, demand new and more complex forms of agent interactions in the production, framing, communication and use of climate knowledge; and in particular, explicit procedures able to tackle difficult normative questions regarding assessment of solutions and the allocation of individual and collective responsibilities. To explore these challenges, we analyse the views of 30 Spanish knowledge contributors and users of the latest UN IPCC AR5 report and share the insights gained from the implementation of a participatory Integrated Assessment procedure aimed at developing innovative solutions to high-end climate scenarios in Iberia. Our analysis supports the view of the need to institutionalise transformation, and in particular underlines the potential role that transformative climate boundary organisations could play to address such difficult ethical choices in different contexts of action.