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2. Know The Facts: got milk?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- California Milk Processor Board
- Format:
- Video
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-14
- Published:
- YouTube
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11500
- Notes:
- 1 page., via YouTube
3. Misleading or informing? Examining the effects of labeling design on consumers' perception of gluten-free products and wheat safety
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cantrell, Kimberly (author), Li, Nan (author), Meyers, Courtney (author), Akers, Cindy (author), and Association for Communication Excellence (ACE)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-02
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11301
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 104(1)
- Notes:
- 18 pages., via online journal, As food products marketed as “gluten-free” become increasingly popular, many consumers start to exclude sources of gluten (e.g., wheat, barley, and rye) from their diets for both medical and non-medical purposes. The grain industry is facing a growing challenge to (re)boost consumers’ confidence in the healthiness and safety of its commodities. Using 561 participants recruited from the Amazon Mechanical Turk workers’ panel, this study implemented a 2 (pretzels vs. potato chips) * 2 (positive- vs. negative- frame) * 2 (wheat image vs. no wheat image) experiment to examine the effects of gluten-free labels on consumers’ perceived healthiness and safety of wheat, perceived benefits of labeled products, and their evaluation of the shown labels. Results showed that consumers evaluate the gluten-free labels most positively when they appear on products that could have contained gluten. For products that are naturally gluten-free, adding a gluten-free label only decreased consumers’ confidence in such labels. The presence of gluten-free labels increased consumers’ perceived benefits of the labeled products when they do not contain any misleading information (e.g., image of a wheat head). However, some gluten-free labels could have negative impacts on consumers’ perceptions of the healthiness and safety of wheat. Overall, food producers and marketers might have undervalued consumers’ literacy and overestimated their susceptibility to marketing strategies. We discussed the implications for food marketers, regulators, and communicators.
4. Smoke, mirrors and hot air: how ExxonMobil uses Big Tobacco's tactics to manufacture uncertainty on climate science
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shulman, Seth (author), Abend, Kate (author), and Meyer, Alden (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- USA: Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11419
- Notes:
- 68 pages., Introductory information and executive summary printed from the organization website. Full text available., The report described ExxonMobile as having "underwritten the most sophisticated and most successful disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry misled the public about the scientific evidence linking smoking to lung cancer and heart disease." Documentation described the company as having drawn upon four of the same tactics: manufactured uncertainty, information laundering, promoted scientific spokespeople, and attempt to shift the focus away from meaningful action.