"Despite some impressive economic statistics and relative social improvements, the world communications economy has left little space for the region's urban and rural working people."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23354
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Wireless via InternetNews. 2 pages., Reports on research showing efficiency of RFID systems. Cites concerns among consumer privacy organizations about issues arising from use of RFID on individual products, a practice known as item-level tagging.
Heffernan, William D. (author) and Hendrickson, Mary K. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2002-02-14
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23365
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Presented at the annual meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium: Science and Sustainability. The farm crisis: how the heck did we get here?" Boston, Massachusetts, February 14-19, 2002. 21 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23441
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Reports on other topics featuring interviews with rural Americans can be found at www.wkkf.org., This report is part of a project seeking to understand how various groups perceive rural America, its challenges and strengths. "Perceptions of rural America" looks at how certain news organizations report on the rural population. Researchers analyzed the events and issues making news, the sources quoted, and the opinions these sources expressed about the current and future state of rural America. Researchers conducted a content analysis of news coverage during the six-month period from Jan. 1, 2002, through June 30, 2002, in a sample of major newspapers, news magazines and television networks.
Author questions the value of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and identifies ways in which it threatens the traditional freedoms associated with the rural way of life.
Fountas, Spyros (author), Pedersen, Soren Marcus (author), and Blackmore, Simon (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2005-07-18
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23520
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In the e-book, E.Gelb and A. Offer (eds.), ICT in Agriculture: perspectives of technological innovation. Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 15 pages.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., American Newspaper Publishers Association protests efforts by government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to control advertising content inappropriately. Article cites an example: "A 1933 order by the animal industry bureau of the Agriculture Department deleting from Jones's dairy farm advertising a jingle, 'Most little pigs to to market, The best little pigs go to Jones's,' on the grounds that it was misleading."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., U.S. Court of Appeals ordered the Midwest Farm Paper Unit, Inc., to pay $37,000 in damages for having acquired a substantial monopoly of the advertising in that type of publication, and that competition was destroyed.
Khan, Rachel E. (author), Lee, Nathan J. (author), and Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: C23756
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Media Alerts 2006, CMFR Study on Slain Journalists from 2000-2005. 6 pages., Discusses the case of Marlene Esperat, a "well-known crusading provincial journalist," whose murder is believed to be associated with her expose of anomalies she discovered in the Department of Agriculture Region XII.
Bhattacharjea, Ajit (author / Director, Press Institute of India)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2002-04-11
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23925
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Extracted from the Indian Express, New Delhi. 2 pages., Access to information reveals that funds for rural development projects in Rajasthan were mis-appropriated by local officials.
Evans, James F. (author) and Banning, Stephen A. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23966
Notes:
Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005. 13 pages., Report of qualitative research among a sample of U.S. agricultural advertisers and commercial farm publishers regarding their concerns and their perspectives about managing the editorial-advertising "wall." Authors employed a contractualist model in which power within the reader-publisher-advertiser triad requires mutual agreement by all parties.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C24023
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Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota. 69 pages.
Retrieved June 16, 2006, 3 pages., Discusses information-related issues associated with criticism of Coca-Cola Company on the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24348
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162 pages., Focuses on the language being used by politicians, scientists, journalists and companies regarding genetic modification of plants. Examines "how language shapes, and can be used to manipulate, our opinions."
Southeastern Newspapers Corporation via LexisNexis Academic. 2 pages., Author comments about pressures on tv meteorologists to avoid discussing global warming, a topic that he believes may jeopardize advertising revenues from corporate advertisers.
Miraldi, Robert (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24428
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, 2 pages., Comments on the high cost Oprah Winfrey incurred in defending against the defamation suit by beef interests. "When an industry can haul a speaker into court for merely discussing food safety, the result, inevitably, is silence of the next speaker."
Collins, Ronald K.L. (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
1998-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24431
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, From the Baltimore Sun (Maryland) via CSPI. 3 pages., In the interest of First Amendment protection, author says "it is essential that existing food-disparagement laws be rejected in the courts and legislatures of this land."
Green, Lyndsay (author), Simailak, David (author), and Green: Communication Specialist and former Policy Analyst, Federal Department of Communications, Canada; Simailak: Director, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1981-12
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04484
Lauffer, Sandra (author / Program Officer for Telecommunications, Academy for Educational Development and Director of Information, AID C045Rural Satellite Program) and Program Officer for Telecommunications, Academy for Educational Development and Director of Information, AID C045Rural Satellite Program
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04505
