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2. Carbohydrate claims can mislead consumers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Labiner-Wolfe, Judith (author), Lin, Chung-Tung Jordan (author), Verrill, Linda (author), and United States Food and Drug Administration
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-09-07
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11458
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
- Notes:
- 3 pages., via online journal
3. Communicating to and engaging with the public in regulatory science
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Smith, Anthony (author), Parrino, Lucia (author), Vrbos, Domagoj (author), Nicolini, Giulia (author), Bucchi, Massimiano (author), Carr, Melanie (author), Chen, Junshi (author), Dendler, Leonie (author), Krishnaswamy, Kannan (author), Lecchini, Davide (author), Löfstedt, Ragnar (author), Patel, Michelle (author), Reisch, Lucia (author), Verloo, Didier (author), Vos, Ellen (author), Zollo, Fabiana (author), and Gallani, Barbara (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10820
- Journal Title:
- EFSA Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(S1)
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., This paper presents selected highlights from the ‘Engaging with society’ session of EFSA's third Scientific Conference ‘Science, Food and Society’ (Parma, Italy, 18–21 September 2018). The social dimension for scientific advisory bodies largely concerns science communication and public engagement. The political, economic and technological transformation of contemporary societies is challenging conventional structures and approaches in these areas. The disintermediation of communication and the proliferation of misinformation, it is argued, herald the onset of the post‐truth society. A better understanding of the way individuals consume information today has led to the development of tools to guide mediators such as journalists and communication specialists in countering these trends. Public engagement can reinforce confidence in regulatory bodies and potentially contribute to the quality of the scientific process. Scientific advisory bodies in Europe have created strategies and mechanisms to engage the public that are designed to increase transparency and representativeness. To be effective, several engagement mechanisms are needed, although factors such as resource constraints, institutional culture and public/stakeholder attitudes may limit their development. In conclusion, a more vigorous role for social research is needed to place scientific risk assessment within broader socio‐economic and political contexts. Social science expertise can help to define more impactful public information strategies and to explore the potential opportunities that engaged stakeholders and citizens can make to sustain and strengthen regulatory science.
4. Consumer perceptions of poultry production: a focus on Arkansas
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Estes, Stuart (author), Edgar, Leslie D. (author), and Johnson, Donald M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13286
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 99(4) : Article 4
- Notes:
- 16 pages, Poultry production holds an important place in Arkansas economically and as a food source. The viability of poultry production ultimately hinges on consumer demand and the perceptions that drive their purchases. With this in mind, this study surveyed consumers to assess their perceptions of poultry production in Arkansas. The instrument used to survey consumers was created by the researcher and an expert committee at the University of Arkansas. Consumers were surveyed through direct communication at grocery stores in Northwest Arkansas. Data gathered from the study were analyzed using descriptive and correlational statistics. Consumers were uncertain as to whether or not conventionally produced poultry possessed unsafe levels of antibiotics and hormones (M = 3.68, SD = 1.45). Consumers also thought the majority of poultry farms in Arkansas were factory farms (M = 4.15, SD = 1.37). Consumers perceived organic poultry as a more healthy food than conventionally produced poultry (M = 4.47, SD = 1.39). Based on these results, specific recommendations were made to maintain the viability of poultry production in Arkansas. Marketing and communication efforts should be tailored to improve consumer understanding of antibiotic and hormone use in poultry production and the healthiness of conventionally produced poultry. Messaging and marketing should depict the reality of conventional poultry production, and agricultural communicators should work to improve logic and reason for combating campaigns that misinform the public about agriculture. This research also highlights the need for further research to better understand the ways consumers develop perceptions of poultry production.
5. Exploring the applicability of the science communication research agenda to agricultural communications scholarship
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Parrella, Jean A. (author), Leggette, Holli R. (author), Kainer, Madalynn P. (author), and Bush, McKenna L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13284
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 107(1) : Article 7
- Notes:
- 24 pages, Agricultural communications scholars do not use a national research agenda to guide their research, which could be limiting the impact and rigor of the discipline. In this commentary, we argue that agricultural communications scholars should adopt the science communication research agenda published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2017 because the goals of science communication, outlined in the agenda, are relevant to agriculture. Members of the committee who developed the agenda study science communication in contexts of food, agriculture, life sciences, the environment, political science, health, nutrition, and psychology, among others. They developed the agenda with the intent for it to inform and guide research in all science communication sub-disciplines or areas involving contentious public issues. We provide examples of studies that have used the agenda to inform research in agricultural and natural resources communications. We also explain how research priorities outlined in the science communication research agenda align with agricultural communications scholarship. Recognizing there are challenges unique to agriculture, we recommend agricultural communications scholars use the science communication research agenda as a research guide and adapt the relevant research recommendations for agricultural communications.
6. Greenwashing and environmental communication: Effects on stakeholders' perceptions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Torelli, Riccardo (author), Balluchi, Federica (author), and Lazzini, Arianna (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10823
- Journal Title:
- Business Strategy and the Environment
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., Since the first Earth Day in the 1970s, corporate environmental performance has increased dramatically, and cases of greenwashing have increased sharply. The term greenwash refers to a variety of different misleading communications that aim to form overly positive beliefs among stakeholders about a company's environmental practices. The growing number of corporate social responsibility claims, whether founded or not, creates difficulties for stakeholders in distinguishing between truly positive business performance and companies that only appear to embrace a model of sustainable development. In this context, through the lens of legitimacy and signalling theory, we intend to understand and assess the different influences that various types of misleading communications about environmental issues have on stakeholders' perceptions of corporate environmental responsibility and greenwashing. Stakeholder responses to an environmental scandal will also be assessed. The hypotheses tested through a four‐for‐two design experiment reveal that different levels of greenwashing have a significantly different influence on stakeholders' perceptions of corporate environmental responsibility and stakeholders' reactions to environmental scandals.
7. Heated discussion: strategies for communicating climate change in a polarized era
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Merzdorf, Jessica (author), Pfeiffer, Linda J. (author), and Forbes, Beth (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10816
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 103 (3)
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., The 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that Earth’s temperatures may soon reach a tipping point that threatens humanity’s future. Scientists from many disciplines agree that anthropogenic climate change is a serious problem yet many Americans remain skeptical of the existence, causes, and/or severity of climate change. In this article, we review recent research on climate change communication focusing on audience variables and messaging strategies with the goal of providing communication practitioners research-based recommendations for climate change message design. Factors that influence audience acceptance and understanding of climate science include: demographic variables (such as political party affiliation, religious orientation, and geographic location), as well as brief sections on misinformation, and beliefs in pseudoscience. Keys to effectively construct climate messaging are discussed including: framing strategies; reducing psychological distance; emotional appeals; efficacy cues; weight-of-evidence/ weight of expert reporting; inoculation/correcting misinformation; and separating science from conspiracy theories. Evidence-based strategies are critical in giving science communicators the tools they need to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the at-risk public.
8. How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp (author), Lewandowsky, Stephan (author), Sunstein, Carl R (author), and Hertwig, Ralph (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06-15
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13226
- Journal Title:
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Journal Title Details:
- V.12
- Notes:
- 8 pages, Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has been designed predominantly to capture user attention rather than to promote deliberate cognition and autonomous choice; information overload, finely tuned personalization and distorted social cues, in turn, pave the way for manipulation and the spread of false information. How can transparency and autonomy be promoted instead, thus fostering the positive potential of the web? Effective web governance informed by behavioural research is critically needed to empower individuals online. We identify technologically available yet largely untapped cues that can be harnessed to indicate the epistemic quality of online content, the factors underlying algorithmic decisions and the degree of consensus in online debates. We then map out two classes of behavioural interventions—nudging and boosting— that enlist these cues to redesign online environments for informed and autonomous choice.
9. Know The Facts: got milk?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- California Milk Processor Board
- Format:
- Video
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-14
- Published:
- YouTube
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11500
- Notes:
- 1 page., via YouTube
10. Media training: "journalism ethics in agriculture: avoiding fake news"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mpaso, Paida (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-06-20
- Published:
- USA: Michigan State University
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D12988
- Notes:
- 5 pages