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    1. Routine influences on aquaculture news selection: A Q method study with new England journalists

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Duffy, Kevin P. (author), Rickard, Laura N. (author), Grosswiler, Paul (author), and University of Maine
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-10-01
    Published:
    United States: SAGE Journals
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11063
    Journal Title:
    Science Communication
    Journal Title Details:
    41(5) : 602-632
    Notes:
    30 pages, via online journal, Environmental journalists, as gatekeepers, often become arbiters of risk and benefit information. This study explores how their routine news value judgments may influence reporting on marine aquaculture, a growing domestic industry with complex social and ecological impacts. We interviewed New England newspaper journalists using Q methodology, a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to study shared subjectivity in small samples. Results revealed four distinct reporting perspectives—“state structuralist,” “neighborhood preservationist,” “industrial futurist,” and “local proceduralist”—stemming from the news value and objectivity routines journalists used in news selection. Findings suggest implications for public understanding of, and positionality toward, natural resource use and development.

    2. Gatekeepers, shareholders, and evangelists: expanding communication networks of African American forest landowners in North Carolina

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hitchner, Sarah (author), Dwivedi, Puneet (author), Schelhas, John (author), and Jagadish, Arundhati (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-02-08
    Published:
    USA: Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10140
    Journal Title:
    Society & Natural Resources
    Notes:
    17 pages., via online journal article, The Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program (SFLR) was launched in 2012 to increase adoption of sustainable forestry practices among African American landowners in the southeastern United States to prevent land loss, increase forest health, and build economic assets. One of its main goals was to build communication networks through which African American landowners could obtain and share information about forestry practices and landowner assistance programs independent of public agencies. To measure and examine the growth of these communication networks over a three-year period (2014-2017), we conducted 87 interviews with landowners (24 of whom were interviewed multiple times), SFLR personnel, and Federal and State staff members in North Carolina. We used complementary methods of data gathering and analysis, including social network analysis and qualitative analysis. Our results showed expanding communication networks will be sustained independently of the program over time, although there is still a heavy reliance on program personnel.

    3. Model farmers, extension networks and the politics of agricultural knowledge transfer

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Taylor, Marcus (author) and Bhasme, Suhas (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-11
    Published:
    International: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10128
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    64 : 1-10
    Notes:
    10 pages, via online journal, Model farmers are a common feature of many developing world agricultural extension networks within which they demonstrate new cultivation techniques and technologies to local communities. The diverse political-economic and socio-cultural roles that such farmers assume, however, are rarely afforded critical scrutiny. To do so, we emphasise the ways in which model farmers facilitate not only the production and transfer of knowledge but also of materials and legitimacy. These transfers occur both horizontally to community members and vertically through linkages with extension agents, research institutions and private sector interests. We establish how these transfers have important impacts upon both efficiency and equity. To illustrate, we use examples of model farmers drawn from research on hybrid rice dissemination in Mandya district, Karnataka. Despite having the same official functions within the extension network, the model farmers we surveyed assumed strongly different roles with notable implications for the effectiveness of knowledge transfer alongside equity considerations.

    5. Agri-marketers go to Washington

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wyant, Sara (author / Agri-Pulse Communications), DiBacco, Tom (author / Broadhead), Smith, Lisa (author / FLM+), Caskey, Neil (author / Osborn Barr), and Tiahrt, Todd (author / Paulsen Marketing)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2013-07
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01908
    Journal Title:
    Agri Marketing
    Journal Title Details:
    51(6) : 40, 42-43

    6. Knowledge, attitudes and behavioral intentions of agricultural professionals toward genetically modified (GM) foods: a case study in southwest Iran

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ghasemi, Sedigheh (author), Karami, Ezatollah (author), and Azadi, Hossein (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    Iran
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06166
    Journal Title:
    Science and Engineering Ethics
    Journal Title Details:
    19 : 1201-1227

    8. Conversations with gatekeepers: an exploratory study of agricultural publication editors' decisions to publish risk coverage

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Meyers, Courtney (author) and Abrams, Katie (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36697
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Applied Communications
    Journal Title Details:
    94(1-2) : 6-18

    9. Survival in electronic times

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dallimore, Karen (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2009-04
    Published:
    Canada: Eastern Canada Farm Writers' Association
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29499
    Journal Title:
    Nib Newsletter
    Notes:
    Panel discussion about how farm writers can adapt to changes in the electronic world.