27 pages, via online journal, This study explored whether satire (an emotional blend of humor/indignation) can minimize the emotional tradeoffs researchers have documented for humorous appeals about climate change. Using a sample of U.S. young adults, we conducted a 2 (humor: present/absent) × 2 (indignation: present/absent) + 1 (control) experiment in which we manipulated a climate change segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! Our evidence suggests that it is possible for a late-night host to affect young adults’ climate change risk perception and behavioral intentions under certain conditions. Moderation analyses indicated that avoiding humor helped close the partisan gap in risk perception between Republicans and Democrats.
3 pages., via online journal., As a long-time writer of silly, nonsensical blogs and books and the owner of a Himalayan trekking company, I’m often asked the same question from people who are clearly confused about what I do: “What makes a great communicator?” I’m faced with this question so often that I’ve decided to impart some of the overflowing wisdom that people seem to think I have on the topic and compile my Top Five Secrets to Achieving Great Communication, which will then render the title improper because they will no longer, by definition, be secrets.
First published May 7, 2019. In press., We analyzed comedy series for food and beverage references, with particular attention to their type of presentation, along with the characteristics of actors associated with the references. Because the generally positive tone of comedy series can exert affective influence over audiences, the result that clearly unhealthy products appeared more often (food: 51.6%; beverage: 40.5%) than clearly healthy ones (food: 11.2%; beverage: 19.6%) could be especially problematic. Moreover, women (56.5%; men: 47.4%) and African American characters (62.7%; Caucasians: 51.5%; Other: 44.7%) were significantly more often associated with unhealthy foods, which could prompt stereotypes of such individuals.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Dispelling common misconceptions, this book examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music until then played only by and for black audiences. Here, Birnbaum argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and R&B—a melange of genres that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into R&B.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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212 p., Examines writers, such as Louise Bennett, Aimé Césaire, Junot Díaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler, who engage humor to challenge representations of people of African descent within canonical Western texts and forms.
[By the way [Anthony Morgan], in another University publication you're quoted as saying: "I think the bigger issue is how little we know about the history and historical contributions of Jamaicans." Well, the issue is way bigger than Jamaica; it's a "race" issue, targeting and ridiculing Black people, all of whom are people of African descent, sons and daughters of slaves.] So those students, froshers, "...were just having fun," eh? There was "nò mal-intent?" according to director [Michel Patry]. Surely they could've found another and more interesting and humanly innocuous way to have (even more) fun. The blackface skit is a sad cliché, it's passé, plus it's not funny. Except for [White] people as they seek ways to fulfill their final stage of life: their pursuit of happiness, by any means. It serves us right; it's the 'house divided' maxim. We are fractured from pulling in so many directions. We lack cohesion and the essential elements that hold people together to secure a strong !foundation. We've long cut the ties that bind, so it's very easy for people to have their way with us.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37294
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See C37280 for original, Page 15 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Posted at http://www.agrimarketingdigital.com/?iid=9297, Pages 33-35 in 2008 Agribusiness Employer Guide, a special supplement of Agri Marketing magazine. One featured career involves an agricultural communicator who works with an advertising agency. Another involves an agricultural cartoonist.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00248
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LLS 496: Diversity Research Project: Assessing and Enhancing Campus Climate at UIUC. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Via IDEALS. 14 pages., Student researcher examines a controversial social exchange, Tacos and Tequila, of a University of Illinois fraternity and sorority, and the way in which it depicted Mexican/Mexican American culture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27737
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255 pages., Focuses on a popular radio comedy series that was broadcast from 1931 until 1954. "The show is a rare example of a lasting national network program on rural themes."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26478
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324 pages., Author documents ways in which agriculture and rural culture stirs the artistic impulse, in many forms. Examines evidence in art, literature, farm magazines, rural radio, country music.
Includes an anecdote about USDA information officer John Baker's response to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy after receiving a letter questioning some of the statements Baker was assumed to have made, as supposed evidence he was sympathetic to Communism. Another anecdote involves food served in a USDA buffet.
Australia: University of Western Australia Press, Crawley.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25274
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James F. Evans Collection, Insights about life, conditions, people and perspectives in rural Australia, as reflected in selected sayings from essays, poems, Bush songs, novels, books, advertisements, rural residents and other sources. Photographs by Richard Woldendorp, widely acclaimed for his landscape photographs.
" Who can lament the passing of perpetual risk and fear, anyway? But probably we have lost something profound if corporate culture, like corporate farming, has eroded our lively old democratic pleasure in storytelling."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29918
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223 pages., One of the featured campaigns (Chapter 13) involves the creation of Phileas Fogg to help establish a brand by British snack food marketer, Derwent Valley Foods.
USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA).
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 47 Document Number: D10711
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69 pages., 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/, Features award-winning article and photos in this national recognition program.
Priddy, Veronica (author), Alison, Kathy (author), and Hively, Peg (author)
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Manuscript
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1980s
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USA: International Training Division, Office of International Cooperation and Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07282
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Paul Hixson Collection., Unpublished mimeograph. 2 pages., Guidelines for teaching courses in ways that build group cohesion among culturally diverse groups.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00317
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John Harvey Collection, 45 pages., Author's illustrated stories describing adventures of/with Charley, "one of the finest bulls to ever pass through a sales ring. Sometimes it seems as though it was a dream. Do we own Charley, or does Charley own us?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14435
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Pages 21-25 in National Academy of Sciences, Communication for change with the rural disadvantaged: a workshop. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 117 pages.
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Sampling of Twain's writing style in his reporting for the Sacramento Daily Union newspaper in covering horse races, the livestock show, attractions, incidents, and other activities at the California state fair in 1866.
USA: Oxmoor Press, a subsidiary of The Progressive Farmer Company, Birmingham, Alabama
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10009
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Copy also located in the James F. Evans Collection, 114 pages., An edited collection written to "build something of the spirit that has always pervaded the lives of rural people." Features brief stories, poems, and commentaries. Sections include love of the land, joys of country living, the farmer and his family, creeds for farm living, the soil and growing things, cotton, animal friends, the business of farming, and the lighter side.
