{"id":11972,"date":"2018-07-10T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/?p=11972"},"modified":"2018-07-10T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:16:51","slug":"acdc-news-issue-18-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/acdc-news-issue-18-07\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News \u2013 Issue 18-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>A tsunami of change facing Big Food<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBarely 100 years old, the grocery store model is becoming obsolete, and with it the organization of the food value chain must be re-written.\u201d Researchers Kate Phillips-Connolly and Alden J. Connolly offered that perspective in a recent article published in the <em>International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. <\/em>In \u201cWhen Amazon ate Whole Foods,\u201d they observed that access to more information opens more options (and opportunities) to buyers and suppliers all along the food value chain.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wageningenacademic.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.22434\/IFAMR2017.0074\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>The Agricultural Communicator\u2019s Creed<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The ACDC collection contains \u201cThe Journalist\u2019s Creed (1922),\u201d \u201cThe Editor\u2019s Creed (1955),\u201d and \u201cMy Creed (1911).\u201d However, until recently we weren\u2019t aware of \u201cThe Agricultural Communicator\u2019s Creed.\u201d\u00a0 It is now part of the ACDC collection and was written by Dr. Delmar Hatesohl, professor emeritus of the University of Missouri. He wrote it in 1990 while working with associates at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>This creed identifies 12 responsibilities of those in the agricultural communicator role. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2018\/07\/DocNews18-07-D09592.pdf\">here<\/a>. Thanks to Dr. Hatesohl for this valued contribution. And we welcome your thoughts about how it fits today\u2019s role of the agricultural communicator.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Findings of the 2018 Food and Health Survey from IFIC Foundation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We have added to the ACDC collection a 63-page report of findings from research among American consumers about health and diet, food components, food production, food safety, and food insecurity. The International Food Information Council Foundation sponsored it.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consumer confusion remains entrenched<\/li>\n<li>Context can influence the consumer\u2019s judgment of healthfulness, even when the nutritional facts are the same<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the survey report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodinsight.org\/2018-food-and-health-survey\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Social media and civic participation:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>creating engagement \u2013 or hierarchies?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>While social media have been heralded to diminish power relations and hierarchies, the Facebook platform reproduces existing divides and power relations.\u00a0 That observation emerged from a case study in Sweden involving civic volunteering during a refugee crisis. Reporting in the journal<em> New Media and Society<\/em>, researchers Anne Kaun and Julie Uldam concluded:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is evident in the case of volunteer activism, for example, between coordinating administrators, donors and volunteers and migrants.\u00a0 Especially, migrants are rendered marginalized and in some cases even voiceless.\u201d Authors emphasized that hierarchies are not created by social media per se, but by a combination of ways in which they are used, the discourses they propagate, and the power relations in which they are embedded.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/sh.diva-portal.org\/smash\/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1143678&amp;dswid=-302\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>We topped 45,000 documents last month<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A recently-contributed 1976 farm magazine article accounted for that milestone. Really? And what was it? It reported results of a seven-state survey about consumer attitudes toward dairy farmers and products.\u00a0 You can learn more about it by going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bibleaves.library.illinois.edu\/?f%5Bcollection_facet%5D%5B%5D=ACDC\">ACDC search engine<\/a> and entering ACDC_D09612 in the search box.<\/p>\n<p>Such insights from more than 40 years ago add depth and value to research and understanding about consumer trends important to food and agriculture. That\u2019s a special role of ACDC.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Communicator events approaching<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>July 11-15, 2018<br \/>\n\u201cDutch Roots: small country big solutions\u201d 2018 World Congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) in The Netherlands. Information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchroots.info\">http:\/\/www.dutchroots.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 4-8, 2018<br \/>\n\u201cEverything under the Sun\u201d 20th annual Agricultural Media Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. Participants include AAEA \u2013 The Agricultural Communicators Network; Livestock Publications Council (LPC), Connectiv Agri-Media Committee; Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE); and Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT). Information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agmediasummit.com\">www.agmediasummit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>September 20-22, 2018<br \/>\n\u201cThe changing face(s) of agriculture.\u201d Annual conference of the Canadian Farm Writers Federation (CFWF) in Winnipeg, Manitoba Province, Canada.<br \/>\nInformation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfwf18.ca\">http:\/\/www.cfwf18.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>October 3-7, 2018<br \/>\nAnnual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Flint, Michigan, site of the most serious drinking water crisis in modern U.S. history.<br \/>\nInformation: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sej.org\/calendar\/sejs-28th-annual-conference-flint-mi-oct-3-7-2018\">https:\/\/www.sej.org\/calendar\/sejs-28th-annual-conference-flint-mi-oct-3-7-2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>October 12-16, 2018<br \/>\n\u201cScienceWriters2018.\u201d Meeting of the National Association of Science Writers in Washington, D.C. Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasw.org\/events\/sciencewriters2018\">https:\/\/www.nasw.org\/events\/sciencewriters2018<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>A dining lesson for us all?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This issue of <em>ACDC News<\/em> has included a sprinkling of food news. In that spirit, <strong>w<\/strong>e close with a bit of eating advice from Hilaire Belloc (1897):<\/p>\n<p>The Vulture eats between his meals<br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s the reason why<br \/>\nHe very, very rarely feels<br \/>\nAs well as you and I.<\/p>\n<p>His eye is dull, his head is bald,<br \/>\nHis neck is growing thinner.<br \/>\nOh! What a lesson for us all<br \/>\nTo only eat at dinner.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Best wishes and good searching <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Please pass along your reactions, suggestions and ideas. Feel free to invite our help as you search for information. Don&#8217;t forget to follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACDCUIUC\">@ACDCUIUC<\/a>. And please suggest (or send) agricultural communications documents we might add to this unique and valuable collection. We welcome them in hard copy (sent to Ag Comm Documentation Center, Room 510, 1101 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801) or in electronic format sent to <a href=\"mailto:docctr@library.illinois.edu\">docctr@library.illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2018\/07\/DocNews18-07.pdf\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0for a printer-friendly PDF of this newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tsunami of change facing Big Food \u201cBarely 100 years old, the grocery store model is becoming obsolete, and with it the organization of the food value chain must be re-written.\u201d Researchers Kate Phillips-Connolly and Alden J. 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