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2. Exploring the applicability of the science communication research agenda to agricultural communications scholarship
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Parrella, Jean A. (author), Leggette, Holli R. (author), Kainer, Madalynn P. (author), and Bush, McKenna L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13284
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 107(1) : Article 7
- Notes:
- 24 pages, Agricultural communications scholars do not use a national research agenda to guide their research, which could be limiting the impact and rigor of the discipline. In this commentary, we argue that agricultural communications scholars should adopt the science communication research agenda published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2017 because the goals of science communication, outlined in the agenda, are relevant to agriculture. Members of the committee who developed the agenda study science communication in contexts of food, agriculture, life sciences, the environment, political science, health, nutrition, and psychology, among others. They developed the agenda with the intent for it to inform and guide research in all science communication sub-disciplines or areas involving contentious public issues. We provide examples of studies that have used the agenda to inform research in agricultural and natural resources communications. We also explain how research priorities outlined in the science communication research agenda align with agricultural communications scholarship. Recognizing there are challenges unique to agriculture, we recommend agricultural communications scholars use the science communication research agenda as a research guide and adapt the relevant research recommendations for agricultural communications.
3. Expert? What does that mean? Describing the term "expert" in agricultural communications, education, extension, and leadership research
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Costello, Lori (author), Rutherford, Tracy (author), and Texas A&M University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10234
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 103(1)
- Notes:
- 16 pages., Via online journal., Expertise is dynamic, domain specific, and characterized according to an individual’s level of knowledge, experience, and problem-solving ability. Having expertise in the phenomenon under investigation can be used as an indicator of an individual’s aptitude to effectively serve as a coder in a content analysis or as panelist in a Delphi study. The purpose of this study was to assess 10 years of scholarship published in the premier journals of agricultural education and describe the ways researchers in agricultural communications, education, extension, and leadership disciplines who use content analysis and Delphi study methods are describing the qualifications of the people serving as expert coders and panelists. The study findings revealed the majority of researchers publishing in the premier agricultural education journals are not describing the qualifications used in selecting coders or the credentials the coders possess that would make them qualified to code the data in a content analysis. Furthermore, researchers were inconsistent citing literature that supported their selection of content analysis coders and citing literature to support a decision to describe or not to describe coders’ qualifications. However, a description of Delphi study panelists’ qualifications and citations to support why panelists were selected in a Delphi study were present in all of the Delphi studies analyzed over the 10-year period. Based on these findings, it was concluded that ACEEL researchers should include a description of coder credentials to enhance the consistency, transparency, replicability, rigor, and integrity of ACEEL research. Editors and research professionals who perform journal article reviews for the premier agricultural education journals are encouraged to note the exclusion of a description of content analysis coders’ credentials as part of the peer review process.
4. Are we there yet? Toward an agricultural communications academic organization
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Irlbeck, Erica (author) and Buck, Emily B. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- USA: Association for Communication Excellence
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10294
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 101(3) : 1-7
- Notes:
- 7 pages, Via online journal., As agricultural communications has grown and evolved since its origins more than 100 years ago, the future directions of the discipline related to teaching, research, and as a professional organization are discussed with a challenge to the members of the profession to be engaged in future discussions and decisions.
5. Agricultural Communications Scholarship Program
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois (author)
- Format:
- Procedure
- Publication Date:
- 2012-09
- Published:
- University of Illinois
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13377
- Notes:
- 4 pages
6. Response to commentaries on "Is There a Rural Ethics Literature?"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nelson, William A. (author), Pomerantz, Andrew S. (author), and Weeks, William B. (author)
- Format:
- Correspondence
- Publication Date:
- 2006-09-21
- Published:
- UK: Taylor and Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13168
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Bioethics
- Journal Title Details:
- V.6, N.4
- Notes:
- 3 pages
7. Rural health care ethics: what assumptions and attitudes should drive the research
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hardwig, John (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2006-08-18
- Published:
- UK: Taylor and Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13171
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Bioethics
- Notes:
- 3 pages