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    1. Continued bipartisan support for expanded background checks on gun sales: more polarized views on NRA's influence

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Research report
    Publication Date:
    2015-08-13
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06603
    Notes:
    Survey research report from the Pew Research Center. 7 pages., Rural respondents prioritized gun rights (63%) while urban respondents said it is more important to control gun ownership (60%).

    2. Facebook, contestation and poor people's politics: spanning the urban-rural divide in Cambodia?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hughes, Caroline (author) and Eng, Netra (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    Cambodia: Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 25 Document Number: D10541
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Contemporary Asia
    Journal Title Details:
    49(3) : 365-388
    Notes:
    25 pages., via online journal, Rural internet use, although still limited, is growing, raising the question of how rural people are using social media politically. As a vehicle of communication that permits the rapid transmission of information, images and text across space and connections between dispersed networks of individuals, does technological advance in rural areas presage significant political transformations? This article investigates this question in the light of a poor result for the Cambodian People’s Party in the 2013 elections, and the subsequent banning of the main opposition party, before the 2018 elections. Expanding internet use in rural areas has linked relatively quiescent rural Cambodians for the first time to networks of information about militant urban movements of the poor. Rural Cambodians are responding to this opportunity through strategies of quiet encroachment in cyberspace. This has had real effects on the nature of the relationship between the dominant party and the rural population and suggests the declining utility of the election-winning strategy used by the party since 1993. However, the extent of this virtual information revolution is limited, since neither the urban nor rural poor are mapping out new online political strategies, agendas or identities that can push Cambodia’s sclerotic politics in new directions.