29 pages, J. N. Rogers, the publisher of the Rural Citizen, joined the Farmers' Alliance soon after it spread to Jack County, Texas. He started using the newspaper to promote the order in March 1881, and in February 1882 the Alliance named the Rural Citizen its official newspaper. Rogers changed the newspaper's name to the Jacksboro Gazette and distanced himself and the publication from the order shortly before the Alliance's August 1886 adoption of political demands at Cleburne.
21 pages, Women empowerment and gender equality have been found to be statistically significant and positive predictors of global agricultural development. Therefore, reducing gender disparities can encourage economic progress and growth in developing nations. As such, determining effective ways to stimulate social progress and women’s empowerment has emerged as a critical need. One strategy used to raise the public’s consciousness about gendered issues in Thailand has been through mass media. In response, this study aimed to (1) determine to what extent Thailand’s newspaper coverage focused on topics related to women and the agricultural industry; and (2) describe how women in agriculture have been portrayed in newspaper coverage since the introduction of Thailand 4.0’s policy in 2016. Using a qualitative content analysis of Thailand’s newspaper coverage of women in the agricultural sector, four themes emerged: (1) economic policy implications for Thailand’s agricultural system; (2) human rights; (3) women entrepreneurship and leadership; and (4) agricultural development. Therefore, this study concluded that newspaper coverage of women in agriculture was diverse and conflicting – a finding not previously reported. The findings also revealed that women in agriculture have been underrepresented in newspaper publications historically. Moving forward, we provided critical implications for how future research, theory, and practice can depict women in agriculture more positively in the newspaper media.
Sachsman, David B. (author), Bulla, David W. (author), and Moore, Jennifer E. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2013-01-01
Published:
USA: Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D12978
Notes:
Chapter 8: "Ours Has Been No Pleasing Task": Sensationalism in Frank Leslie’s Campaign against Swill Milk, Frank Leslie's newspaper was the first successful American publication devoted to pictorial presentations of news events. His pictorial crusade against the underbelly of the swill milk business garnered public attention to what Leslie viewed as a public health crisis. The swill milk problem had all of the components for a compelling story, which also lent itself to being sensationalized: political corruption, business fraud, and social ills disproportionately affecting immigrant and poor populations. The swill milk business continued unregulated for many years, but that would all change in May 1858 when Leslie began a full-scale investigation. Leslie's coverage of swill milk in New York City and surrounding areas in antebellum America reflects aspects of sensationalism. Leslie's pictorial news content marks a significant development in the history of journalism between the penny press and the 1890s yellow papers, and the illustrated newspaper served as an agent of social change.
Baranowski, Dariusz B. (author), Flatau, Maria K. (author), Flatau, Piotr J. (author), Karnawati, Dwikorita (author), Barabasz, Katarzyna (author), Lubaz, Michal (author), Latos, Beata (author), Schmidt, Jerome M. (author), Paski, Jaka A.I. (author), and Marzuki (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2020-05-19
Published:
UK: Nature Portfolio
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13091
10 pages, Floods are a major contributor to natural disasters in Sumatra. However, atmospheric conditions leading to floods are not well understood due, among other factors, to the lack of a complete record of floods. Here, the 5 year flood record for Sumatra derived from governmental reports, as well as from crowd-sourcing data, based on Twitter messages and local newspapers’ reports, is created and used to analyze atmospheric phenomena responsible for floods. It is shown, that for the majority of analyzed floods, convectively coupled Kelvin waves, large scale precipitation systems propagating at ∼12 m/s along the equator, play the critical role. While seasonal and intraseasonal variability can also create conditions favorable for flooding, the enhanced precipitation related to Kelvin waves was found in over 90% of flood events. In 30% of these events precipitation anomalies were attributed to Kelvin waves only. These results indicate the potential for increased predictability of flood risk.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13130
Notes:
121 pages total. Folder includes table of contents, preface, vanishing readers, and entrepreneurial stalwarts and start ups (8 pages). Link to full document.
21 pages, Journalists who cover rural areas in the United States say they are afraid to report on hate groups, and this fear is exacerbated by close community ties and limited resources among rural journalists. We examine the concept of “hate speech” as a boundary object, analyzing in-depth interviews with U.S. journalists reporting in rural communities (n = 33) to better understand how rural journalists report on hate. We find that rural journalists articulate a clear definition for hate speech but struggle to apply that definition to events within their communities, even as they articulate numerous forms of hate. Journalists often dismissed acts of hate using the residual category of “not hate, but … ” to signal something that they felt was out of place or unsuitable but did not rise to the legal definition of hate speech and thus was not worth reporting on. This approach ends up challenging journalists’ normative commitments to their communities and exemplifies their desire to avoid an objectivity trap.
