Authors identify challenges and potentials for using new information technologies, such as the Internet, to help jobseekers in rural labour markets find employment. Social networks and telephone helplines were found to be used most at present.
"Discusses the role of social photography in effecting a change in the ideology of the American Dream from individualism to co-operation during the Great Depression of the 1930s." Focuses on the work of Farm Security Administration photographers of that period.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17073
Notes:
Page 80 in Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner (eds.), Communication and change: the last ten years - and the next. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. 372 pages., "Initially, the communication in Comilla was from the top down. It was essential to prime the pumps, so that self-sustaining local action could be generated. The importance of top-down communication should not be underestimated. It was necessary to start the engine of local initiative and action. Once local participation was initiated, open communication in all directions is necessary to strengthen and maintain it."
Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01940
Notes:
Nieman Report via online. 3 pages., Report about photographs taken by women in rural China for a book: "Visual voices: 100 photographs of village China by the women of Yunnan Province."
Attwood, Gillian (author), Castle, Jane (author), and Smythe, Suzanne (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Lesotho: Routledge, London, England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37092
Notes:
See C37085 for original, Pages 139-158 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages., REFLECT - Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Emplowering Community Techniques. Combines the work of the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the participatory development methodology known as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29538
Notes:
From CBC Morningside via Don Snowden Program for Development Communication. 6 pages., Exerpt from a CBC interview with Simon Halaghan, long-time member of the Farm Radio Forum.
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18406
Notes:
Pages 25-38 in Bruce R. Crouch and Shankariah Chamala (eds.), Extension education and rural development. Volume 1. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. 371 pages.
Damhorst, Mary Lynn (author), Lennon, Sharron J. (author), Kim, Minjeong (author), Johnson, Kim K.P. (author), Jolly, Laura D. (author), and Jasper, Cynthia R. (author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2007-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30221
Damhorst, Mary Lynn (author), Lennon, Sharron J. (author), Kim, Minjeong (author), Johnson, Kim K.P. (author), Jolly, Laura D. (author), and Jasper, Cynthia R. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30541
Examines adaptation as a dynamic diffusion of innovations process in which adopters change innovations according to their individual needs. Adaptation may be explained by three factors: (a) the differing interpretation of innovation components by individual adopters, (b) an individual's level of adopter innovativeness or readiness to accept change and [c] the generative learning process whereby an individual relates new information prior knowledge and experience. Adaptation may occur unconsciously at the beginning of the diffusion process. Those who study the adaptation process should begin at the initial awareness state when potential adopters are forming their opinions and ideas about an innovation. Author uses an example involving a group of Kalahari bushmen first considering a sample of soft drink that they are told can quench thirst.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00924
Notes:
Paper presented at the 131st EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists) seminar, "Innovation for agricultural competitiveness and sustainability of rural areas," Prague, Czech Republic, September 18-19, 2012.
"Our findings expose a clear contrast between the ambitious and future oriented ways in which adults imagine ICTwill expand their children's educational and employment opportunities, and social and special horizons, and the everyday ways in which these technologies actually emerge for children in practice."
Announces Sigma Delta Chi award presented to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper (Pennsylvania) for coverage of terrorism in an Amish community. "A world apart, shattered" was published October 3, 2006, p. A01.
