{"id":13639,"date":"2020-03-11T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/?p=13639"},"modified":"2020-03-11T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:23:03","slug":"acdc-news-issue-20-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/acdc-news-issue-20-03\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News \u2013 Issue 20-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2020\/03\/DocNews20-03.pdf\">Click Here<\/a> for a printer-friendly PDF of this newsletter.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What young consumers think about insects as food<\/h3>\n<p>We recently added to the ACDC collection a research article exploring the perceptions of millennials about eating insects. Published in the <em>International Journal on Food System Dynamics<\/em>, it examined willingness of young Italian consumers to buy a variety of snacks containing insect-based ingredients.\u00a0 Among the results of this contingent rating experiment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On average, all of the respondents reacted more positively to snacks made of insect flour than of whole insects.<\/li>\n<li>The effect of adding a cacao flavor, on average, was not statistically significant.<\/li>\n<li>A claim of high protein content seemed \u201cnot particularly appealing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Environmental certification of the products appeared not important.<\/li>\n<li>Sixty-four percent of the time, respondents said they were willing to buy the products for a reasonable price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the article, \u201cInsects or not insects?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18461\/ijfsd.v9i3.932\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Communications lessons from a Brazilian meat scandal<\/h3>\n<p>A 2019 article in the <em>International Journal on Food System Dynamics<\/em> offered insights and guidelines for communicating when things go wrong. In their article, \u201cCorporate communication actions in response to crises\u201d researchers tracked the results of a scandal that broke out during early 2017 in the Brazilian meat industry.\u00a0 A federal police operation revealed corruption acts involving selling meat that was beyond its \u201csell by\u201d date and adding carcinogenic chemical additives to alter the product\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n<p>This analysis focused on communications strategies used online by two firms involved in the crisis. Researchers monitored websites, YouTube posts, and Facebook pages during 30 days after the scandal went public.\u00a0 Findings prompted an observation that the corporate strategy adopted by both firms \u201cfailed to satisfy each individual stakeholder\u2019s claim, opting to adopt neutral speech to avoid future litigations.\u201d Stakeholders recognized in this study involved consumers, international buyers, the media, and the government.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18461\/ijfsd.v10i5.30\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>The geography of social media use in America<\/h3>\n<p>We have added to the ACDC collection a 2012 spatial analysis of social media use in all counties throughout the U.S. It was published in a 2019 issue of the <em>International Journal of Geo-Information<\/em>, featuring metropolitan, micropolitan, and rural sub-samples. Researchers found, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The major determinants of use were demographic factors, service occupations, ethnicities, and urban location<\/li>\n<li>Facebook users were highly concentrated in the Northeast coastal region, southern California and Colorado, Utah, and adjacent Rocky Mountain states<\/li>\n<li>Twitter users were more heavily concentrated in southern California, the Northeast coastal region, and lower-central South.<\/li>\n<li>Social media usage was lowest in the Great Plains, lower Midwest, and South, with the exceptions of Florida and major southern cities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Authors offered priorities and policy suggestions for counties in addressing issues related to digital divide.\u00a0 You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijgi8090424\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Why people attend festivals: a case report from South Africa<\/h3>\n<p>Analysis of motives for attending a strawberry festival offered unusually-detailed insights from a research report in the <em>African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure<\/em>. We added it recently to the ACDC collection.<\/p>\n<p>This 2017 article by researcher Takalani Ramukumba of Nelson Mandela University featured evaluation of festival activities as motives to attend the Strawberry Festival in George, South Africa. It focused on specific festival activities that were used in the promotional and advertising material for the festival &#8211; \u201cbreaking the mould of analyzing festival attendance motives as previously employed by many studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/article\/3aa7d9039a2b4e37b2a111c8553481d4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>\u201cGendered constraints for adopting climate-smart agriculture\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The list of constraints is long in this 2020 <em>Scientific African<\/em> article, which focused on smallholder Ethiopian women farmers. Research findings showed that uptake by women farmers was affected by limited access to credit, extension, restricted membership in cooperatives and water user associations, user rights to land, skill training, information, and restricted mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers concluded, \u201cExpanding off-farm diversification and rural employment opportunities through changing the land tenure system, which is currently state-owned, are essential to enhance women stakeholders\u2019 access to land and other agricultural inputs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article by open access <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.sciaf.2019.e00250\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Reminder: Welcoming your feedback and ideas<\/h3>\n<p>We invite you to participate in our listening survey to help us serve your interests. Participating includes answering 10 questions that will take about 10 minutes. The ACDC Coordinator will review, synthesize and keep your responses confidential. If you have any questions about the research study, please contact Janis Shearer at <a href=\"mailto:jshearer@illinois.edu\">jshearer@illinois.edu<\/a>. If you have questions or concerns about your rights as a participant please contact the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office for the Protection of Research Subjects at 217-333-2670 or via email at <a href=\"mailto:irb@illinois.edu\">irb@illinois.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your help. Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/surveys.illinois.edu\/sec\/940597\">here<\/a> for the survey<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Communicator events approaching<\/h3>\n<p><strong>April 15-17, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cCharting the course.\u201d Conference of the National Agri-Marketing Association in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/nama.org\/amc\/2020-amc-home\">https:\/\/nama.org\/amc\/2020-amc-home\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 23-24, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary reception celebration and spring regional workshop of AAEA &#8211; The Agricultural Communicators Network in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/agcommnetwork.com\/events\/regionalworkshops\/\">https:\/\/agcommnetwork.com\/events\/regionalworkshops\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 21-25, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cOpen communication.\u201d 70<sup>th<\/sup> annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/icahdq.org\/page\/ICA2020\/\">https:\/\/icahdq.org\/page\/ICA2020\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 1-3, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cSpice up your creativity.\u201d 2020 CCA Institute of the Cooperative Communicators Association in Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communicators.coop\/cca-institute-2020\">www.communicators.coop\/cca-institute-2020<\/a><u>\/<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 22-25, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cBe inspired Chicago!\u201d Annual conference of the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE), Hyatt Regency O\u2019Hare, Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aceweb.org\/\">https:\/\/www.aceweb.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 23-25, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\nAnnual conference of the Agricultural Relations Council (ARC) in Roanoke, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/agrelationscouncil.org\/conference-registration\">https:\/\/agrelationscouncil.org\/conference-registration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 24-28, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\nConference of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors at the University of Nevada, Reno. Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iswne.org\">https:\/\/www.iswne.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 24-29, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cFarming today for the society of the future.\u201d Annual Congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) in Bredsten, Denmark.\u00a0 Hosted by the Danish Food and Agricultural Journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Information:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ifaj.org\/events\/annual-congress\">https:\/\/ifaj.org\/events\/annual-congress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 25-29, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cAg Media Summit 2020.\u201d\u00a0 AMS is an industry-wide gathering of agricultural media and communications professionals in Kansas City, Missouri. It joins together AAEA \u2013 The Agricultural Communicators Network, Livestock Publications Council, and Connectiv Agri-Media Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/3edf6233-1a53-4e57-bfe5-6d7765331a75\/summary\">https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/3edf6233-1a53-4e57-bfe5-6d7765331a75\/summary<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>\u201cClimate emergency\u201d &#8211; Oxford Word of the Year 2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We close this issue of <em>ACDC News<\/em> noting rapid rise in use of the term \u201cclimate emergency,\u201d as revealed in the language data collected by Oxford Languages. Use of it increased steeply during 2019, more than 100 times more commonly than during the previous year. From relative obscurity, it became \u201cone of the most prominent \u2013 and prominently debated \u2013 terms of 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oxford defines \u201cclimate emergency\u201d as a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Best wishes &#8211; and good searching<\/h3>\n<p>ACDC is a resource for you, so please feel free to invite our help as you search for information. Don\u2019t 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 international 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 <u>acdc@library.illinois.edu<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here for a printer-friendly PDF of this newsletter. What young consumers think about insects as food We recently added to the ACDC collection a research article exploring the perceptions of millennials about eating insects. 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