Role of social media for civic participation, drawing on Swedish volunteer initiatives that emerged in the context of the migration crisis in 2015 as a case study.
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29240
Notes:
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.
Block, John (author / U.S. Secretary of Agriculture)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1984-06-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10742
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Speech written for presentation to the first Agricultural Communicators Congress, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1984. 8 pages., Author presents 12 features that he ascribes to the role, work, and impact of agricultural journalists and communicators. Among them: "you are national treasuries of this land of ours." He describes current issues facing agriculture and discusses elements of a 2018 farm bill to be developed.
