This newsletter article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- "International" file section - "OCIAC" file folder., Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Summary of findings reported in: Milton Munoz, "Understanding visual illiteracy: a study of comprehension of pictorial messages among farmers." Bulletin 43. Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. February 1986.
Murphey, M.B. (author), Frutchey, F.P. (author), and Gallup, G. (author)
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Research summary
Publication Date:
1942
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USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08955
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Page 15 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of research reported by New Jersey Agriculture College Extension, New Brunswick. 1942. 7 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35774
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Suggests that ag magazines must respond to the new reality calling for readers to be far better served and to charge accordingly. "The force driving magazines forward will be content rather than advertising."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11904
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Correspondence from author to ACDC. 2 pages., Case example of an agricultural economist who came to the editor in a renewable energy research center with the text he was going to publish as a book. He rejected the editorial suggestions offered and had 2,000 copies of the text printed. Only 48 "ever saw the light of day. The remaining 1,952 copies were destroyed" for lack of demand.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: B02113
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#1210, Harold Swanson Collection. Hal R. Taylor Collection. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Journalism, 1956. 49 p. (Bulletin 26)
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08957
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Page 16 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of research reported by the National Fertilizer Association, Inc., Washington, D.C. 1929. 38 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23929
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Reprinted from the Hindu, December 19, 2004. 3 pages., "The rural news network is live and well." Two newspapers compete in starting local editions, using stringers. Article describes the careers and activities of these rural reporters.
Ninan, Sevanti (author) and Malaviya, Sushmita (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-06-28
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India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23931
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 6 pages., "Two years ago newspaper publishers in these parts witnessed a decline in circulation because of the influence of electronic media. But now there is a whole new territory being carved out in Hindi-speaking rural India b y newspapers which see their urban markets stagnating, and advertising being taken away by TV channels."
Onyango, Benjamin (author) and Food Policy Institute, Rutgers Universitry.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2003-10-29
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29426
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Via AgEconSearch. Presented at the 2003 annual conference of the Food Distribution Research Society, Biloxi, Mississippi, October 25-29, 2003. 17 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23813
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E-Media Tidbits via Poynteronline. 1 page, Cites a rural newspaper editor who suggests: "As small papers concentrate their energy from print to digital, I think we are cutting off our collective noses to spite the face of community journalism - and not fighting for the attention of readers."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D02471
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Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's AAEA and CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Washington,D.C., August 4-6, 2013. 43 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D11605
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2 pages., Masters thesis - technical journalism, Kansas State College, Manhattan. 56 pages., Report of farmer interviews in Gear County, Kansas, assessing their readership and perceptions of agricultural publications distributed by the Agricultural Extension Service. Questions also invited their suggestions for improving access to desired agricultural information.
Peirce, Lincoln C. (author / Professor of Plant Science, Department of Plant Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH) and Professor of Plant Science, Department of Plant Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04888
Phifer, B. (author), Judkina, B. (author), Frutchey, F. (author), and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Federal Extension Service
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1961
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 24 Document Number: B02489
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#917, Harold Swanson Collection, abstract available in Main Stacks 630.73 Un364r., Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Federal Extension Service, 1961. 34 p. (Extension Service Circular 536)
Prijatel, Patrica (author), Foskit, Barry (author), and Milam, Henry (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1996-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C13256
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12 p., paper presented to the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28079
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Pages 95-99 in Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi (eds.), Journalism, science and society: science communication between news and public relations. Routledge, New York, New York. 286 pages., Examines the uneasy relationship between science and journalism, including influences on coverage of issues such as environment and conservation.
Rainie, Lee (author), Zickuhr, Kathryn (author), Purcell, Kristen (author), Madden, Mary (author), Brenner, Joanna (author), and Pew Research Center, Pew Internet and American Life Project, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2012-10-23
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: D00043
Online via keyword search of UI Library ecatalog., Report of newspaper reading among 241 farmers in Gujarat State, India. Findings suggested that newspapers play an important part in popularizing the agricultural practices of farmers. Author recommended that sufficient space should be given to agricultural information, and it should be published on time, more understandable, interesting, acceptable to readers, and in regional-language newspapers.
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08956
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Page 16 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of research reported by Iowa State College Agricultural Extension. 1941. 11 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: C02708
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electronic publishing, James F. Evans Collection, Mississippi State, MS : Mississippi State University, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Editorial Department, 1988. 32 p.
Riley, Harold (author), Saurez, Nelson (author), Shaffer, James (author), Henkety, Donald (author), Larson, Donald (author), Guthrie, Colin (author), and Lloyd-Clare, David (author)
Format:
Collection
Publication Date:
1970-03-31
Published:
Columbia: Latin American Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes2 Document Number: D00883
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Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Research Report No. 5, Marketing in Development Communities Series, 386pp
Presentation to the 1926 AAACE meeting, East Lansing, Michigan. Includes summaries of results of several readership studies among farmers and farm families.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: B01481
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AgComm Teaching, see also ID B01478, In mass communication and the development of nations (ppIII-1-III-19) East Lansing, Michigan: International Communication Institute, Michigan State University
Sabrosky, L.K. (author / U.S. Department of Agriculture), Mason, Ida C. (author / U.S. Department of Agriculture), and Clark, Ruth Russell (author / University of Connecticut)
Format:
Study
Publication Date:
1946
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30386
Scherer, Clifford W. (author / Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University) and Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: C03037
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08614
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a research report. Connecticut Agriculture College Extension, Storrs. 15 pages.
Snowdon, Gail (author / Decision Data Specialist, Communication Services, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois) and Decision Data Specialist, Communication Services, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 76 Document Number: C04058
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, Information Services, 1989. 1 p. (Decision Data Summary, Information Guide to Communications Planning No. 4S)
Snowdon, Gail (author / Decision Data Specialist, Information Services, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06611
Notes:
Snowdon, Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, Information Services, 1991. 4 p. (Decision Data Summary, Information Guide to Communications Planning No. 16)
Snowdon, Gail (author / Decision Data Specialist, Information Services, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06608
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Snowdon, Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, Information Services, 1991. 2 p. (Decision Data Summary, Information Guide to Communications Planning No. 13)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: C00177
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451-457, Harold Swanson Collection, Mimeographed, 1983. 5 p. Paper presented at the 1983 National Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) Meeting; 1983 July 17-21; Madison, WI