Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23814
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Via Poynteronline. 3 pages, Author argues that "journalism on a smaller scale provides a bigger opportunity to connect with (and answer to) readers and viewers." Cites an experience in which a reporter at a small daily newspaper on the coast of rural North Carolina told her readers that the water was polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and that city leaders had known about the pollutants for many years without doing anything. She received a Pulitzer Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service, but a hostile reception, locally, by people upset by the uproar she had caused in the community.
Abstract and citation online via search of Ebscohost.com. 1 page., This article deals with the deliberation of development journalism as a subfield of development communication. It further examines the connection between public journalism and development journalism. The development journalist "should be an active community participant in social change. He or she cannot be a neutral observer who adheres to objectivity. The journalist must relate development to people and focus on relations and the totality of concrete life situations. He or she must go well beyond economics and bring out the inherent drama in development, democracy, and participation."
Editor of Western Farm Press explains how shameless it would be for editors to waste paper and ink to brag about their grandchildren and even include photos of them (as he does here).
Hopke, Scott D. (author), Otto, Justin F. (author), and Shellabarger, Jacob W. (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2004-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23496
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Agricultural journalism class project, University of Missouri, Columbia. 28 pages., Results of an e-mail survey among alumni of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri. Respondents suggested increased coverage of agricultural issues, more reporter training on agricultural issues, hiring reporters with agricultural background to cover agricultural issues, and increased quality and depth of coverage of agricultural issues.
"Our data suggest that the majority of newspaper articles accurately convey the results of and reflect the claims made in scientific journal articles. Our study also highlights an overemphasis on benefits and under-representation of risks in both scientific and newspaper articles. The cause and nature of this trend is uncertain."
3 pages., Features "one of the pre-eminent Western-adventure novelists of his time" and a writer who "also ranks among America's profoundly involved agricultural journalists."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23461
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Department of Agriculture, South Africa. 4 pages., Speaker reviews the role and achievements of the Agricultural Writers' Association of South Africa and urges members to "speed up with these new plans to acknowledge members of the emerging farming community, because they are part of the future of South African agriculture." Also describes recent agricultural developments in South Africa.
International Food Information Council (author) and International Food Information Council, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2004-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21921
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Executive Summary, 8 pages., Fifth in a series of snapshots of media coverage of food news. Compares leading food-related topics from 1995 through 2003.
Via Online Journalism Review. 4 pages., Case examples include a periodical that investigated unregistered chemicals and found widespread use throughout Japan, even on "organic" farms. Started an online "Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Research Lab" as a virtual think tank to tackle the problem in a way that included the voices of everyday Japanese citizens. "The idea of connecting producers and consumers through civic journalism has become a standard approach to agriculture coverage in the Tohoku farming region."
Telg, Ricky (author / University of Florida), Irani, Tracy (author / University of Florida), Ruth, Amanda (author / University of Florida), and Locke, Deanna (author / University of Florida)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2004-02-14
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19768
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14 pages; Paper presented at Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Oklahoma, February 14-18, 2004.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25911
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Via Media South Asia. 3 pages., "A low-profile, but innovative and imaginative farm journal is very popular among cash-crop growers in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala." Variously spelled "Adike Patrike" and "Adike Pathrike"
International Programme for the Development of Communication, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2004-02-03
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24721
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, 1 page., Describes a monthly selection of rural reportage from a wide range of local and community newspapers from different parts of India. "A considerable number of mainstream newspapers are now using 'Grassroots' as a source of rural news features."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23815
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"Monday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages, Provides source of information for identifying contributions by members of the meat industry to U.S. legislators who influence agricultural policies. Also describes coverage by the St. Petersburg Times about livestock auctions being hurt by the mad cow scare.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21600
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Pages 175-187 in Susan L. Senecah (ed.), The Environmental Communication Yearbook. Volume 1. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. 267 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21774
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Pages 97-115 in Sandra Braman (ed), Biotechnology and communication: the meta-technologies of information. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. 287 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21598
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Pages 99-134 in Susan L. Senecah (ed.), The Environmental Communication Yearbook. Volume 1. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. 267 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21755
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Pages 169-187 in Robert E.Evenson and Vittorio Santaniello (eds.), Consumer acceptance of genetically modified foods. CABI Publishing, Oxon, United Kingdom. 235 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21510
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Pages 205-226 in Susan L. Senecah (ed.), The Environmental Communication Yearbook. Volume 1. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. 267 pages.
Case report of a deceased rural community newspaper in Australia which was revived, using simple digital publishing systems with reporting (college students working under instruction from the community) and production staff based 735 kilometers away. Findings illustrated the importance of local editorial control.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22083
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Pages 79-87 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Citation, abstract, and conclusions (2 pages) printed for ACDC filing and storage., This study identified five underlying frames (mostly in print media but with attention to a television soap opera based on the MST's activities) and examined the images of the movement that the frames presented. "Though the coverage often presents the MST in a favorable light, it does not necessarily encourage the goal of mobilization that the movement seeks to promote."
Cook G (author), Pieri E (author), Robbins P T (author), and Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
UK: University of Reading
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: C21642
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13 pages, The research aims to analyse the language and discourse of the debate over GM crops and food during February-July 2003. This period is expected by all sides to be one of renewed controversy and interest in the UK, with a government initiated national debate, discussion of the GM crop field trial results, and reconsideration of the current moratorium on commercial cultivation. Although it is impossible to predict either the exact course or duration of the debate, it is certain to provide a wealth of material for research into the impact of stakeholders' communication strategies upon public trust and understanding. Recently, the GM debate has generated a great deal of research and publication. The proposed project, however, is distinctive for its attention to the language and discourse of the debate, and for its combination of linguistic and sociological methodology. The GM debate brings together scientific, ethical, political and social concerns. Each perspective has its own discourse, and this in itself can be a source of misunderstanding and disagreement. The research will focus less upon the content of the debate, as other research has done, and more upon the forms in which it is expressed, as well as ways in which it is framed by its actors. It will explore how styles of argument, metaphors and analogies, phrases and single words can change in meaning and effect when they cross discoursal boundaries. As such, it will make a unique contribution to understanding of the public debate, and be of value and relevance to all stakeholders, interested academics, and society in general. More generally it will provide insights into the communication of controversial new technology and the responses of both public, media, and policy makers. For this purpose, the project will collect, analyse and relate three datasets. The first will be an electronically stored corpus of newspaper articles and public statements by major stakeholders (such as NGOs, government, and biotechnology companies). This first datatset can be automatically analysed using current corpus linguistic software to reveal frequent word choices and combinations. The second dataset will be transcripts of interviews with representatives of major stakeholder organisations about the factors governing their choices of language and strategies of argumentation. This second dataset will be coded using software for qualitative analysis, to reveal recurrent themes and opinions. The third dataset will be transcriptions of six focus groups, meeting on two occasions each, in which participants react to the language choices and communicative styles of selected extracts from dataset one. Focus groups have been chosen for the depth which they allow in the exploration of views and opinions among targeted groups with a particular relation to the topic. In our research each group identity will relate to one area of the debate, as follows: parents of young children (diet and health); charity volunteers (ethical concerns); students in higher education (long term effects); birdwatchers (biodiversity); farmers (consequences for agriculture); temporary UK residents from poor countries (effect on crop nutrition and yield). The intention is not to provide a survey of opinion, of which many already exist, nor to duplicate the existing focus-group literature on public responses to GM, but to provide new evidence of the discoursal sources of conflict and mistrust. This third dataset will also be coded for themes and arguments. This research will elucidate the actual (rather than presumed) effect of styles of argument on public perceptions and trust, thus complimenting and deepening existing understanding.
Priest, Susanna Hornig (author) and Ten Eyck, Toby A. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21777
Notes:
Pages 175-196 in Sandra Braman (ed), Biotechnology and communication: the meta-technologies of information. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. 287 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22549
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Online from indiatogether.org. 5 pages., Reports on a successful experiment of "farmers penning for their fellowmen" through a farm periodical, Adike Pathrike.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25987
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Article published in the Times-News, Hendersonville, North Carolina. 2 pages., Describes results of two roundtables that brought the newspaper together with readers "to examine questions of the public's trust in journalism."
