Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37086
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See C37085 for original, Pages 15-34 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
This newsletter article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- "International" file section - "OCIAC" file folder., Maitra,S. "Role of rural newspapers in adult education." Indian Journal of Adult Education. 45(7/8) : 18-22. 1984., Summary of a journal article. The findings suggested that the rural press would give newly-literate rural people something to practice reading, as well as give them information that would help them participate in development and decision-making processes that affect them.
Solanki, Surabhi (author) and Verma, Seema (author)
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
2019-06
Published:
Elsevier
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11119
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8 pages., Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and Management., In any country, agriculture plays important role in the prospect of economy and sustainability. As technology grow day by day so it is necessary for the farmer to know about the technology, innovations and take them into practice, so they make strong themselves in terms of economic and sustainability. In this paper discussed the intensity exposure to information and communication technology and its relationship to the characteristics of farmers at different stages of adoption use of information and communication technology for different farm practices and also know the preferences of farmers regarding the use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT). In the continuation of this process conduct the personal interview to collect personal details of farmers as well as farm information that associate them to know about the adoption of information technology. The data collected through personal interview of farmers have been classified, tabulated and analyzed to know how efficiently and effectively information and communication technology disseminate farm information to the farmer.
4 pages., Article #:3IAW1, via online journal., Scientific literacy is essential for success of youth and adults in the 21st century. In 2017, Oklahoma 4-H Youth Development initiated a fellowship program to address scientific literacy throughout Oklahoma: the STEMist program. Through this program, college students with a background or interest in science are recruited, trained, and sent to teach science workshops to youths at various educational events during the summer months. In its inaugural year, the program reached over 2,000 youths. The program addresses scientific literacy, aids in career readiness, and promotes 4-H to audiences previously unaware of the positive impact it can have on today's young people.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11084
Journal Title Details:
23 pages
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Bibliography: p. 20-23., Information series ; no. 173. Columbus, Ohio : ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career and Vocational Education : National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University, 1979.
Afghanistan: U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23486
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USAID Afghanistan: Weekly Reports. 2 pages., Describes the importance of radio in agricultural areas of Afghanistan, with the literacy rate of about 30%. Reports details of a recent agricultural journalism workshop for radio reporters.
11 pages., via online journal., The study aims at exploring the extent of agricultural information literacy of farmers in the northern region of Bangladesh. Besides the review of relevant literature the study conducts a questionnaire-based survey of 160 farmers working in ten districts in the region. The analysis of the survey shows that farmers need information for various purposes of agricultural activities, and they use different sources and media for access to such information. Many of the farmers, however, are not well aware of modern techniques of agriculture, and they occasionally use such techniques for farming. Due to some problems farmers are moderately satisfied in getting agricultural information, and in many cases their satisfaction level is very low. The paper concludes with providing certain recommendations for the improvement of information literacy of the farmers in
Bangladesh.
20 pages., Mass media is the main source of scientific information for most Americans, but inaccuracy of reporting has threatened the public’s understanding of science. Perceived media bias and fake news has also made the public skeptical of the media, and scientists’ perceptions are no different. Because scientists are the most trusted source for scientific information in America, it is important they remain willing to work with the media. This study used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to explore scientists’ perceptions of working with reporters, including their attitude, subjective norms, behavioral control, and intent to engage with the media in the future. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 tenure-track faculty at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) in spring 2018. These participants represented low, moderate, and high communicators. The findings from this study indicated mostly negative attitudes toward reporters due to skepticism in their ability to accurately report science. Behavioral control was also limited due to time and ability constraints, but participants recommended trainings as ways to increase behavioral control. Subjective norms were somewhat mixed, with some positive norms from mentors but perceived negative norms from the public. Despite negative attitudes toward reporters, intent to engage with the media was mixed. However, subjective norms and behavioral control were often discussed as reasons to not engage with reporters. The findings from this study offered recommendations for both practice and research to help foster positive relationships between scientists and reporters.
USA: Education and Human Resources Development Division, Office of Technical Resources, Bureau for Africa, Agency for International Development, Washington D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19472
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Burton Swanson Collection, In "Summary of proceedings of the planning session on agricultural education and university building" Conducted at the United States Department of Agriculture, Graduate School, Washington D.C.
Fliegel, Frederick C. (author), Kivlin, Joseph E. (author), Roy, Prodipto (author), Sen, Lalit K. (author), and University of Illinois; National Institute of Community Development, Hyderabad, India; National Institute of Community Development, Hyderabad, India; Michigan State University
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1968
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 31 Document Number: B03106
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Mason E. Miller Collection, Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Community Development, 1968. 119 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08802
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Pages 29-40 in Debra A. Reid, Interpreting agriculture at museums and historic sites. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 265 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C16945
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Pages 135-159 in C.A. Amtmann and Francisco Fernandez M. (eds.), Comunicacion y desarrollo rural. Publicacion del Instituto de Ciencias Historicas y Sociales, Universidad Austral de Chile a traves de su "Programa Centro de Sociologia del Desarrollo Rural." 194 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08813
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Pages 117-143 in Patrick D. Murphy, The media commons: globalization and environmental discourses. United States: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield. 192 pages.
Doerfert, David L. (author), Akers, Cindy (author), Oskam, Judy (author), Davis, Chad S. (author), and Vinyard, Ashlee (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-05-25
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27222
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Pages 350-362 in Volume 32, Proceedings of the National AAAE (American Association of Agricultural Education) Research Conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 25-27, 2005.
Schramm, Wilbur (author) and Sathre, Eugene (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1976
Published:
International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17064
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Pages 1-14 of Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner (eds.), Communication and change: the last ten years - and the next. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. 372 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08797
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Pages 255-267 in Dillon, Justin, Towards a convergence between science and environmental education: the selected works of Justin Dillon. United States: Routledge, New York City, New York, 2017. 361 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25288
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Comments before the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadcast Localism, RM-10803. 2 pages., Author urged the Commission to seek ways to help maintain and encourage more localized agricultural programming on radio and television stations throughout the nation.
Ward, William B. (author / Cornell University), Read, Hadley (author / University of Illinois), and Colle, Royal D. (author / Cornell University)
Format:
Presentation
Publication Date:
1971
Published:
India
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: D11136
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From the "India visit 1971" file of the international programs section of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., 24 pages., Presented at the second convention of Indian Agricultural Universities, at U.P. Agricultural University, Pantnagar, India,February 25-28, 1971
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12868
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Chapter 16 in Anjan Kumar Banerji (ed.), Communication and development. Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 135 pages.
Heasley, Daryl K. (author), Price, Deborah A. (author), and Heasley: Associate Professor, Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Price: masters Candidate, Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05194
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37093
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See C37085 for original, Pages 159-177 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
Kante, Assa (author), Dunkel, Florence (author), Williams, Ashley (author), Magro,Sam (author), Traore, Haoua (author), Camara, Abdoulaye (author), and Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2009-05
Published:
Mali
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00429
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Pages 284-291 in the proceedings of the 25th annual meeting of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 24-28, 2009.
Agunga, Robert A. (author / Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Education, Ohio State University) and Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Education, Ohio State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 76 Document Number: C03970
18 pages., Via online journal., The study asserts that rural villages which have developed relatively complex communication systems have extensive local knowledge and practice systems. Using the knowledge and community-based perspective, the study departs from past works of development communication scholars, who have focused their attention mainly on the transfer of information. The study is concerned with how meaning is created and shared in rural communities through the use of communication. It looks at how small homogenous farming communities in Thailand – world’s number one rice exporter – utilize communication to improve rice crop production. It asks: what roles does communication play in the formation of collective definitions (perspectives) and the construction/management of local knowledge and practices on rice farming? To explore the plausibility of this paper’s assertion, ethnographies of two rice farming villages were conducted – Baan Sap Som Boon (irrigated) in Chainat province (Central Region) and Baan Hua Hae (rainfed) in Ubon Ratchathani province (Northeast Region). Data generation period was from October 2004 to July 2005. Research results indicate that Baan Sap Som Boon has both an extensive knowledge of rice farming methods and procedures and an elaborate community-based communication system. Baan Hua Hae, on the other hand, practices more traditional means of rice production and divides time with other livelihood activities. In both villages, communication plays a central role in improving crop production via facilitating the formation of collective definitions on rice farming, labor, economics and agriculture-related institutions.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D03025
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Three-part research report for a course, Agricultural Communications 300, University of Illinois, Urbana. 12 pages., Part 1 - Communication methods used by the Extension Service in Nigeria. 13 pages. Part 2 - Factors that effective effectiveness of communication. 17 pages. Part 3 - Ways to overcome problems and recommendations in use of communication in the Extension Service. 28 pages.
Amtmann, Carlos A. (author) and Fernandez M., Francisco (author)
Format:
Book
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
International: Instituto de Ciencias Historicas y Sociales, Universidad Austral de Chile a traves de su "Programa Centro de Sociologia del Desarrollo Rural."
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C16938
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27908
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Presented at the Participatory Communication Research Section in the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002. 11 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37089
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See C37085 for original, Pages 68-84 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 161` Document Number: D07869
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Pages 107-109 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech?. ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
7 pages., Article #: v58-1iw3, via online journal., Breakfast on the Farm educational farm tours were introduced in Michigan in 2009 to improve consumer knowledge about, impressions of, and trust in modern food production. Over 89,000 participants have attended events on 40 commercial dairy, beef, crop, and fruit farms. This article addresses organization and funding of the events and some of their general impacts. Volunteers staff stations on topics such as animal care, food safety, nutrition, and water quality. Surveys indicate that attendees' impressions of and trust in farmers and food production improve and that product purchases increase. Events patterned after Michigan's model have occurred in several states and may be implemented elsewhere for similar purposes.
19 pages, This paper describes a multimodal brochure assignment in an undergraduate animal science subject with a mixed cohort of animal science and veterinary science students. The assignment involved group work and peer feedback that allowed students to improve their brochures prior to submission. Support for the communication aspects of the assignment was developed by a teaching team consisting of the subject lecturer and two lecturers with a specialisation in academic language and learning. This support consisted of a rubric containing detailed communication rows, and annotated brochures illustrating written and visual features of this unfamiliar assignment genre. At the end of the subject, students were surveyed to seek their feedback on the usefulness of the assignment, the rubric (especially the detailed communication rows), the annotated brochures, and the peer review process. Results were highly positive, with students seeing value in this type of assignment for developing their communication skills. Students reported benefits in both giving and receiving (and using) peer feedback to improve their brochures. While giving feedback was considered to be helpful for enhancing both communication and understanding of the rubric, receiving feedback was mostly seen as beneficial for the purposes of editing and proofreading. Students reported that the main challenges of the assignment were in being concise and tailoring the language of the brochure to the target audience. The results suggest that while the support was viewed as very helpful, students may need more explicit and scaffolded guidance in tailoring their communication for a non-academic audience in a multimodal genre.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09040
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Pages 112-127 in Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi, and Eric Morgan (editors), Environmental communication pedagogy and practice. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, England. 277 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06823
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Pages 297-308 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37087
Notes:
See C37085 for original, Pages 35-56 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23741
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 9 pages., "The indiscriminate nature of local news does not encourage purposeful reporting on the development needs of local areas, and their populations."
17 pages., Via open source journal., The rural farmers in western Rajasthan State are uneducated and most of the applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are demonstrated and run in the English Language. The majority of these rural farmers who are illiterates with a very low level of understanding of the English Language find it difficult to take advantage of the availability of ICT to facilitate their access to information for their farm businesses. This study examined the role of ICT in enhancing the farmers’ access to production and marketing information in western Rajasthan State in India. Primary data was collected from 133 farmers consisting of 71 ICT users and 62 Non-ICT users through questionnaire administration. The results of the Analysis of Variance test regarding the farmers’ access to different types of production and marketing information revealed that the user type (i.e., ICT versus Non-ICT user) significantly explains the differences in farmers’ access to the different types of marketing and production information. These results are consistent with the empirical results of the student’s t-test that farmers’ access to different types of production and marketing information from ICT sources is significantly higher than from Non-ICT sources. Consistently, the empirical results of the multiple regressions revealed that the percentage of production and marketing information obtained from ICT sources had positive significant influence on the farmers’ access to marketing and production information; and that the percentage of marketing and production information obtained from Non-ICT sources had negative significant influence on the farmers’ access to marketing and production information. These results suggest that ICT sources of marketing and production information play a crucial role in the farmers’ access to this information for their business operations. The implication is that proper education and training of farmers (especially the female farmers) about the utilization of ICT sources to accelerate access to information is crucial
5pgs, Attention to stress and mental health among agricultural producers has increased over recent years, and Cooperative Extension has been active in offering educational workshops and resources to agricultural audiences. This article describes the process and effectiveness of expanding two (university) Extension farm stress management programs to Cooperative Extension in other states through a national Farm Stress Management Summit. The two-day training Summit provided deeper knowledge about farm stress issues and prepared Extension professionals to offer behavioral health programs in their own communities and respective states. Evaluation findings highlight effective aspects of the Summit and next steps.
Redwine, Tobin (author), McKim, Billy (author), Roberts, Lacey (author), and Rogers, Taylor (author)
Format:
Paper abstract
Publication Date:
2018-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10002
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Abstract of paper presented at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (SAAS) Agricultural Communications Section, Jacksonville, Florida, February 4-5, 2018.
13 pages., Via online journal., Developing public and policy maker understanding of agriculture and natural resources is a national research priority of the American Association for Agricultural Education. Because of cultural and geographic distancing from agriculture, consumers' ability to obtain firsthand knowledge of agriculture may be limited to a handful of experiences including local, county, and state fairs. As such, agriculturalists' opportunities to communicate with the public about production agriculture may be limited to these experiences. Youth livestock exhibitors fill a gap in the agricultural education system. While a body of research exists about agricultural literacy among youth and adult groups, few studies exist concerning the impact of youth livestock show exhibits upon fairgoers. This study employed a survey research method using semantic differential scales with a then-now approach. Fairgoers, who had been through the youth livestock exhibits at the California State Fair, were asked about their attitudes toward the exhibits. Findings led to the conclusion viewing livestock exhibits and interacting with youth exhibitors resulted in fairgoers having more positive attitudes toward animal agriculture. Interaction between fairgoers and livestock exhibits should be encouraged and exhibitors should be prepared to view interactions with fairgoers as opportunities to educate about agriculture.