Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23747
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Presented at 2006 Agricultural Outlook Forum sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture in Arlington, Virginia, February 16-17, 2006. 6 pages., Reports factors involved in 25% lower use of broadband by rural than by urban small businesses.
9 pages., via online journal, Since 2014, the Chinese government has initiated new-type urbanization under the guidance of ‘the National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020)’, which embarks on a significant transformation of the model of urbanization in post-reform China. To understand the origin and outputs of this policy, this article demonstrates the context of China’s new-type urbanization. The paper proposes a conceptual framework of new-type urbanization, which mainly includes four aspects: humanism, people-oriented urbanization; inclusivism, benefits sharing for urban and rural; sustainability, development without sacrifice of resources and environment; and harmonism, coordination. This is followed by an examination of the case of Anhui province, as a pilot province of China’s new-type urbanization. Anhui has performed a lot of related work to promote citizenization of peasant workers and has made great progress on the reform of the household registration system. The study found that despite a special emphasis on people-oriented urbanization, the pressures and costs of citizenization of peasant workers are growing fast, accompanied by rising housing prices in cities. This insight suggests there are benefits and costs of promoting China’s new-type urbanization. Despite the advantages of institutional innovation, the unexpected side effects such as rapid rising housing prices actually undermine the success of plan implementation.
12 pages, Background
Health risk communication plays a key role in promoting self-protective measures, which are critical in suppressing COVID-19 contagion. Relatively little is known about the communication channels used by rural poor populations to learn novel measures and their effectiveness in promoting self-protective behaviors. Behavioral change can be shaped by people’s trust in government institutions which may be differentiated by social identity, including indigeneity.
Methods
During an early phase of the pandemic, we conducted two telephone surveys with over 460 communities – both Indigenous and mestizo – without road access and limited communication access in the Peruvian Amazon. This is the first report on the association of information sources about self-protective measures against COVID-19 with the adoption of self-protective behaviors in remote rural areas in developing countries.
Results
People mainly relied on mass media (radio, television, newspapers) and interpersonal sources (local authorities, health workers, neighbors/relatives) for information and adopted handwashing, mask-wearing, social distancing, and social restrictions to varying degrees. Overall, self-protective behaviors were largely positively and negatively associated with mass media and interpersonal sources, respectively, depending on the source-measure combination. Mistrust of the government seems to have shaped how Indigenous and mestizo peoples distinctively responded to interpersonal information sources and relied on mass media.
Conclusions
Our findings call for improved media access to better manage pandemics in rural areas, especially among remote Indigenous communities.
Engelman, Kimberly K. (author), Perpich, Denise L. (author), Peterson, Shelly L. (author), Hall, Matthew A. (author), Ellerbeck, Edward F. (author), and Stanton, Annette L. (author)
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Journal article
Publication Date:
2005-04
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23138
Via online issue. 4 pages., Author explains how she used listening and observation in producing a video documentary, "At highest risk: material health care in the high Peruvian Andes."
Ganeswar, S. (author), Satapathy, C. (author), and Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, India; Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, India
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Journal article
Publication Date:
1974-05
Published:
India
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05088
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23734
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One World South Asia. 3 pages., "I believe that the cell phone, not the computer, will be the real bridge across the digital divide." Cites example of effective use by Kerala fishermen in marketing their catches.
Evans, cited reference, In a study to compare key-communicators with non-communicators, with regard to their role as change agents, the date of inter-personal interactions at different stages of adoption of three improved varieties of seeds, obtained from 94 families constituting an entire medium sized multicaste village were analyzed (sic). Key communicators were defined as those who had performed more than average acts of communication at different stages of adoption of three improved seeds. Non-communicators were those who had not performed any act of adoption. Twenty three key-communicators were identified. The most important way in which the former differed from the latter was in the frequency of their contact with extension agency (sic) working in the area. (original)
Retrieved December 9, 2006, Author describes three communication-related aspects of the "diversity generated into rural areas by globalisation of the economy and of society."
Deva, A.K. (author), Jaiswal, N.K. (author), Roy, N.K. (author), and Social Science, Bihar Agricultural College, Sabour, India; SIET Institute, Hyderabad, India; Social Science, Bihar Agricultural College, Sabour, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1974-04
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05081
Posted at http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/07-4NRwinter/p53-curley.html, Editor explains how memories of how local newspapers served his family in rural Kansas helped him and his associates create hyperlocal news coverage for the Washington Post newspaper. "The nature of local journalism has not changed significantly in many years."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28752
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Bulletin No. , Agricultural Publishers Association Collection, UI Archives. Series 8/3/80, Box 4. 1 page., Cites author's comparison of city and farm living conditions, as reported in the "Short Turns and Encores" department of the Saturday Evening Post magazine.
