Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11590
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3 pages., Online from publisher website. 2 pages., Report explains that more than $1 billion are "flowing to 126 communities in 38 states and tribal lands to build broadband networks." Author summarizes a Federal Communications Commission resource page explaining why rural broadband is so important.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11768
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Report from Agri-Pulse received online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 6 pages., Report of a letter to Capitol Hill and the White House from a new American Connection Project Broadband Coalition calling for a "robust federal investment in broadband internet connectivity." Letter (attached) signed by 40 ag, tech, and healthcare groups.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11769
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Online from BroadbandNow, a registered trademark of Centerfield BBN LLC. 3 pages., Whereas the FCC reports that broadband is unavailable to 21.3 million Americans, BroadbandNow Research analyzed FCC Form 477 data and estimated that 42 million Americans do not have the ability to purchase broadband internet. This is an additional 6.5 percent of Americans beyond FCC estimates.
Shafer, Mary Jo (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25727
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Via Institute web site. 5 pages., Summarizes discussion at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Lloyd, Mark (author) and Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2007-06-27
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28107
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4 pages., Discusses how rural Americans are lagging behind in connectivity, compared with urban/suburban Americans and rural systems in other parts of the world.
Via online issue. 3 pages., One of five articles featuring "The challenges of rural journalism" in this special section of the May 2007 issue of Montana Journalism Review.
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."
Matthess, Annemarie (author) and Kreutz, Christian (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
International: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eshborn, Germany.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29014
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41 pages., Provides a systematic overview of Web 2.0 experiences made to date in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It serves as a practice-oriented introduction to the theme and discusses both the potentials and the possible limits to the participatory web..
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29759
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Recommendations from the 2nd Agriculture Leadership Summit, New Delhi, India, September 4-5, 2009. 13 pages., Summary and recommendations, including those involving extension and communications.
Xiaoming, Hao (author), Banerjee, Indrajit (author), and Jinqui, Zhao (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-12-15
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36116
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Presented to the Conference on Empowering Rural Communities through ICT Policy and Research, Chennai, India, December 15-17, 2007. 17 pages., Case study of a rural community internet access center that lacked sustainability.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36211
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Section 3 in Don Richardson and Lynnita Paisley (eds.), The first mile of connectivity, Communication for Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. Via online. 15 pages.
Tran, Phuong (author), Ng, Felicia (author), Chia, Cathy (author), Chib, Arul (author), and International Association for Media and Communication Research, London, UK.
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-07-18
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36276
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Retrieved 03/22/2011, Via online. Pages 9-10 in Book of Abstracts: Participatory Communication Research Section of the IAMCR Conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36364
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Pages 243-262 in Benjamin M. Compaine (ed.), The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 357 pages., Author suggests that the digital divide may be disappearing on its own through declining cost, natural acculturation and growing availability. Observes that the lower cost of living in rural areas may more than compensate for having to pay higher rates closer to full cost of telecommunications.
Despite significant improvements in nominal levels, severe gaps of digital inclusion still exist in the American economy. This paper argues that, for certain groups, migration towards mobile computing and digital inclusion may transpire from 2G voice centric mobile telecommunications to data centric mobile computing devices. Accordingly, this analysis employs a large data set to investigate what socio-economic factors are determinant for the diffusion of mobile telecommunications; how these findings can be extended to help close the digital divide; and how these findings can inform policy making concerning the digital divide.
Author Keywords: Digital divide; Mobile computing; 2G & 3G mobile communications; Internet
Davis, Dee (author / President, Center for Rural Strategies)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2005-06-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23360
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Keynote speech at the "Rural America, Community Issues" conference, Knight Center, University of Maryland, June 12, 2005. 6 pages., Sketches problems in rural America and describes two campaign efforts of the Center to bring people together and reframe rural perceptions. One involved opposition to plans by CBS to produce a reality show, "The Real Beverly Hillbillies." The other involved opposition to a plan to exempt all but the largest banks from Community Reinvestment Act obligations. "And the press has a critical role to play." Not as advocates, but to cover rural issues better.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23924
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 4 pages., Results of a content analysis of rural development coverage by regional newspapers in three newly formed states in India.
Hilliard, Robert L. (author) and Keith, Michael C. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24025
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242 pages., Authors examine how "the short-term financial gains from consolidation in radio have resulted in the demise of local radio services to individual communities, concomitantly resulting in the not-so-long-term possible demise of radio itself."
Langa, Zakes (author), Conradie, Pieter (author), and Roberts, Benjamin (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2006-03
Published:
South Africa
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25054
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Retrieved December 9, 2006, Chapter 7 in Udesh Pillay, Benjamin Roberts and Stephen Rule (eds.), South African social attitudes: changing times, diverse voices. Human Sciences Research Council, HSRC Press, Cape Town, South Africa. 400 pages., "the digital divide is likely to remain with us in the medium to long term, thus reinforcing the gap between the included and the excluded." Authors examine the divide and the socio-economic factors related to it.
Gregorio, Leonor B. (author), Sison, Josephine C. (author), and Gregorio: University Librarian, University of Philippines at Los Banos; Sison: Project Officer, Agricultural Information Bank of Asia
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1991-03
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 85 Document Number: C05495
