{"id":15061,"date":"2021-12-13T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/?p=15061"},"modified":"2022-06-20T20:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:04:44","slug":"acdc-news-21-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/acdc-news-21-12\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News &#8211; Issue 21-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/12\/DocNews21-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> for a printer-friendly pdf of this issue.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>When it\u2019s OK to say \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cLeading your company with decisiveness can seem like the way to go,\u201d Amy Sowder of <em>The Packer<\/em> observed in a recent article. \u201cIt\u2019s strong. Firm answers can encourage employees to feel confident and secure in their company. Employees need assurance, especially in these uncertain times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, speakers in a COVID-19 Environment session of the 2020 United Fresh Washington Conference also emphasized that sometimes it\u2019s better to tell your employees that you don\u2019t know. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remaining silent until you have an answer for your next step during a crisis can cause employees even more stress.<\/li>\n<li>Silence may make employees think their leaders don\u2019t care.<\/li>\n<li>Have a plan for when you don\u2019t know.<\/li>\n<li>Make space for employees to talk, to ask questions, and to hear updates from you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read this brief and ever-timely article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/opinion\/when-its-ok-say-i-dont-know\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>\u201cReinforcing the rural status quo\u201d in a river system<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Media coverage of health and politics involving Australia\u2019s largest river system came under review in a recent article in the journal, <em>Environmental Communication<\/em>.\u00a0 Researchers conducted a critical discourse analysis of rural radio coverage of issues in the Murray-Darling River system. In particular, they analyzed national coverage in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) \u201cCountry Hour\u201d program. Findings prompted them to note a \u201cconstrained range of discourses&#8230;largely due to journalists assigning framing power to a limited group of elite agricultural and political sources and legitimating their ideological positions especially through the program presenters\u2019 contextualizing commentary.\u201d They also noted \u201csome significant absences \u2013 the voices of people who live in the Basin, including First Nations and others with environmental concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs scholars who desire to be actively participating subjects in a global environment, we take up (Arjun) Appadurai\u2019s invitation to imagine a time soon when the Murray-Darling will be heard on its own terms, not only on Australia\u2019s rural airwaves, but throughout the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article is available for purchase from the publisher. You can read the abstract and get details about how to purchase the article from the publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/routledg\/ecjnc\/2021\/00000015\/00000003\/art00006\">here.<\/a> Feel free to check with us at <a href=\"mailto:acdc@library.illinois.edu\">acdc@library.illinois.edu<\/a> for help.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Where the produce industry is missing the boat on consumption<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>How is consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables not increasing at record margins each year? Alex DiNovo, president of DNO Produce group of companies, Columbus, Ohio, asked that question in a recent issue of <em>The Packer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a concise, unapologetic, and perhaps even edgy approach to marketing ourselves as an industry,\u201d he suggested, perhaps along the line of what the milk industry did. It began the Dairy Checkoff program nearly 40 years ago, forming an organization to grow consumption and trust through promotion, research, and nutrition education. \u201c\u2026as an entire industry, we are far more powerful than on a commodity-by-commodity basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the commentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/opinion\/where-produce-industry-missing-boat-consumption\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Small-town newspapers and heinous crimes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We recently added a journal article that examined the role of small newspapers when bizarre and shocking crimes are committed locally. The study by Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller focused on three towns in regional Australia \u201cthat have been represented in metropolitan and international news media as \u2018dead zones\u2019 after shocking crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Findings indicated that while small newspapers lack the power to overturn negative media representations of their communities they do have the authority to instruct their readership in how to respond to the events themselves and the negative representations by big media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read this article, \u201cThe Snowtown we know and love,\u201d in <em>Rural Society<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/dro.deakin.edu.au\/eserv\/DU:30043216\/hess-snowtownweknow-2012.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Scholars need to address rural health care ethics more rigorously<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We recently added a 2006 research report about this subject in the <em>American Journal of Bioethics<\/em>. The research team members based that conclusion on their review of health care literature focused on rural America between 1966 and 2004. They identified 55 publications that specifically and substantively addressed rural health care ethics. Only seven (13%) were original research articles; most were descriptive summaries of research and general commentaries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article is available for purchase from the publisher. You can read the abstract and get details for full access <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15265160500506746\">here.<\/a> Feel free to check with us at <a href=\"mailto:acdc@library.illinois.edu\">acdc@library.illinois.edu<\/a> for help.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Communicator events approaching<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Uncertainties of the COVID-19 health issue continue to prompt flexible event planning. Here are plans of which we are aware, with contact information you can use for details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>January 28, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for research papers to be presented at the annual conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) in Kansas City, Missouri, June 12-14, 2022,<\/p>\n<p>Information: Shannon Norris at <a href=\"mailto:norriss@nmsu.edu\">norriss@nmsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>February 13-14, 2022<\/p>\n<p>National Agricultural Communications Symposium in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists in New Orleans, Louisiana. Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saasinc.org\">https:\/\/www.saasinc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for posters to be presented at the ACE annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri, June 12-14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Information: Cara Lawson at <a href=\"mailto:cara.lawson@oregonstate.edu\">cara.lawson@oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for outstanding theses and dissertations to be recognized at the ACE annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri, June 12-14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Information: Garrett Steede at <a href=\"mailto:gsteede@umn.edu\">gsteede@umn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>June 12-14, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Annual Conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) in Kansas City, Missouri. Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/aceweb.org\">https:\/\/aceweb.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>July 16-20, 2022<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the point.\u201d Ag Media Summit in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/agcommnetwork.com\/unveiling-the-theme-and-logo-for-ag-media-summit-2022\">https:\/\/agcommnetwork.com\/unveiling-the-theme-and-logo-for-ag-media-summit-2022<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>A year-end toast<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We close this year-farewell issue of <em>ACDC News <\/em>with an Irish toast:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay the roof above us never fall in,<\/p>\n<p>And may we friends gathered below<\/p>\n<p>Never fall out.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Offering information and best regards<\/strong><\/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 valued international collection. We welcome them in hard copy (sent to Ag Comm Documentation Center, Room 510, 1101 S. Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801) &#8211; or in electronic format sent to <a href=\"mailto:acdc@library.illinois.edu\">acdc@library.illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for a printer-friendly pdf of this issue. When it\u2019s OK to say \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d \u201cLeading your company with decisiveness can seem like the way to go,\u201d Amy Sowder of The Packer observed in a recent article. \u201cIt\u2019s strong. Firm answers can encourage employees to feel confident and secure in their company. 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