Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19710
Notes:
Pages 39-51 in Georgette Wang and Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Continuity and change in communication systems: an Asian perspective. Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, New Jersey USA. 274 pages.
Steeves, H. Leslie (author) and Porras, Luz Estella (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00447
Notes:
Pages 141-158 in Thomas L. McPhail (ed.), Development communication: reframing the role of the media. Electronic resource from Wiley InterScience. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK. 239 pages.
Steeves, H. Leslie (author) and Porras, Luz Estella (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00829
Notes:
Pages 141-158 in Thomas L. McPhail (ed.), Development communication: reframing the role of the media. Electronic resource from Wiley InterScience. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK. 239 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19597
Notes:
Pages 7-25 in Karen Gwinn Wilkins, Redeveloping communication for social change: theory, practice, and power. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 216 pages.
See related dissertation: "Reading, reform and rural change: the Midwestern farm press, 1895-1920", This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume they expressed the farmer's point of view. Farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas, such as those involving rural school consolidation, rural churches and family farms. "Farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing the ideas of farmers, but providing a forum for reformers and farmers to debate proposed changes to country life." Research involved four midwestern farm newspapers between 1895 and 1920: Iowa Homestead; Wallaces' Farmer; Prairie Farmer; and Missouri Ruralist.
