{"id":9225,"date":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-dev.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/14_12\/"},"modified":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","slug":"14_12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/14_12\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News &#8211; Issue 14-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"library_acdc_h1\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fixed\">\n<p>  <strong>   Creative ag science communicator honored  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam recently received the 2014 Borlaug CAST Communication Award. At the University of California-Davis she is an extension specialist in animal genomics and biotechnology. She \u201cworks tirelessly and creatively to relay important information about agriculture and food production,\u201d according to the citation report. Her efforts reveal an \u201coutstanding ability to communicate complicated and sometimes controversial scientific issues to the general public.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  You can learn more about Dr. Van Eenennaam\u2019s communications efforts at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/animalscience.ucdavis.edu\/animalbiotech\/index.htm\">   http:\/\/animalscience.ucdavis.edu\/animalbiotech\/index.htm  <\/a>  . <\/p>\n<p>  That site provides links to: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>   \u201cThe potential impacts of mandatory labeling for genetically engineered food in the United States,\u201d CAST Issue Paper Number 54 (April 2014). She chaired the task force that developed it.  <\/li>\n<li>   A 30-minute documentary, \u201cAnimal Biotechnology,\u201d which she produced.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Also, you can view an award-winning five-minute video she wrote and directed, \u201cThose Were the Days My Friend,\u201d at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/dateline.ucdavis.edu\/dl_detail.lasso?id=14060\">   http:\/\/dateline.ucdavis.edu\/dl_detail.lasso?id=14060  <\/a>  . It shows animal agriculture in the United States, then and now. <\/p>\n<p>  Thanks to Scott Kilman for alerting us to this recognition. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   How blogs boost attention to research papers  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  \u201cBlogging about a paper causes a large increase in the number of abstract views and downloads in the same month,\u201d David McKenzie and Berk Ozler said recently on the World Bank website. Their report is based on download statistics from Research Papers in Economics. <\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThese increases are massive compared to the typical abstract views and downloads these papers get,\u201d said the authors. <\/p>\n<p>  You can see graphic evidence at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/impactevaluations\/the-impact-of-economic-blogs-part-i-dissemination-aka-check-out-these-cool-graphs?cid=EXT_TwitterWBPubs_P_EXT\">   http:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/impactevaluations\/the-impact-of-economic-blogs-part-i-dissemination-aka-check-out-these-cool-graphs?cid=EXT_TwitterWBPubs_P_EXT  <\/a> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Three emerging platforms for digital photography about nature  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  Here are three emerging platforms for photography that Daniel Palmer identified in a chapter of  <em>   Environmental Conflict and the Media  <\/em>  (2013). He suggested that all three can help \u201cturn ordinary citizens into producers and participants of public imagery around the environment, rather than mere consumers.\u201d <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>   <em>    Photovoice   <\/em>   (   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photovoice.org\">    www.photovoice.org   <\/a>   ) is being used in community development and contemporary social resource with participants taking photographs in response to particular issues.  <\/li>\n<li>   <em>    Camera phones and sharing sites   <\/em>   engage citizens with the environment. \u201cAccompanying these developments is so-called \u2018participatory sensing,\u2019 which uses embedded devices like the smartphone to capture data about oneself and one\u2019s community\u2026\u201d For example, a mobile phone\u2019s geo-tagging camera helps people work together for targeting the location of invasive plant species.  <\/li>\n<li>   <em>    Grassroots mapping   <\/em>   . For example, after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, mappers used DIY tools for sending inexpensive digital cameras up in helium balloons and kites. \u201cBy setting the camera to automatically take pictures every five seconds, they were able to generate aerial photos\u2026to document the effects of the spill.\u201d  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Check with us at  <a href=\"mailto:docctr@library.illinois.edu\">   docctr@library.illinois.edu  <\/a>  if you would like help in gaining access to this case study in Palmer\u2019s book. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   New review of BBC rural coverage in the United Kingdom  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  We are adding to the ACDC collection a 2014 report of an impartial review of coverage of rural areas in the UK. This was the sixth review carried out by the BBC Trust. Here are some of the findings with regard to the television, radio and online services of BBC: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>   On the whole, the BBC coverage of rural affairs includes a wide range of voices and opinions  <\/li>\n<li>   Coverage of controversial stories is generally impartial.  <\/li>\n<li>   There is no evidence of party political bias.  <\/li>\n<li>   In England particularly, rural stories and rural lives could be more fully represented in nationwide coverage.  <\/li>\n<li>   BBC relies disproportionately on a small number of external bodies for input and comment.  <\/li>\n<li>   A tendency to focus on environmental aspects of rural UK should be balanced by the economic and social dimensions.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  You can read the summary and gain access to further details at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbctrust\/news\/press_releases\/2014\/rural_affairs\">   http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbctrust\/news\/press_releases\/2014\/rural_affairs.html  <\/a>  <strong>  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Caution about teaching our own environmental values  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  Teaching environmental values to youth should not mean teaching our own values, says Michigan State University Extension Specialist Nick Baumgart. Instead, it should encourage young people to develop their own environmental values. <\/p>\n<p>  \u201cImparting your own values creates a danger that youth are being \u2018brainwashed\u2019.\u201d The author of this article says it is important to ask questions that are intriguing and thought provoking, and to give answers that are non-biased. \u201cIn so doing, we as environmental educators give value to what we do and increase environmental literacy to those who will be the future caretakers of our world.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  You can read this article at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/msue.anr.msu.edu\/news\/values_as_part_of_environmental_education\">   http:\/\/msue.anr.msu.edu\/news\/values_as_part_of_environmental_education  <\/a> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   How can you have a profitable community newspaper with a circulation of 312?  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  Kevin Slimp of  <em>   Software Review  <\/em>  recently asked that question of a publisher whose wife and he own six small newspapers (all profitable) in rural Nebraska. <\/p>\n<p>  \u201cWell, people ask me that question a lot,\u201d publisher Rob Dump replied, \u201cand I look at it this way. We\u2019re able to pay our staff and to make a little profit. And it\u2019s good for a community to have its own newspaper.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  Author Slimp thinks these three qualities exist in most successful newspapers these days: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>   Focus on local content, produced locally  <\/li>\n<li>   Support and training for staff  <\/li>\n<li>   A quality sales staff that understands the role and benefits of newspaper advertising  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  You can read his commentary, \u201cWhat it takes to be successful,\u201d at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/nnaweb.org\/artic.e?articleTitle=what-it-takes-to-be-successful--1399409022--822--pub-aux-stories\">   http:\/\/nnaweb.org\/artic.e?articleTitle=what-it-takes-to-be-successful&#8211;1399409022&#8211;822&#8211;pub-aux-stories  <\/a> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   The lukewarm editor  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  On that note, we close with a sample of poetry used sometimes a century ago to fire up country journalists and get them to speak out. This poem in the  <em>   National Printer-Journalist  <\/em>  of 1904 was written by a Wisconsin editor, O. Byron Copper. <\/p>\n<div>  Luke Warm, a timid editor, <\/div>\n<div>  Once ran a country sheet, <\/div>\n<div>  Whose every line and local note <\/div>\n<div>  Was couched in tones discreet, <\/div>\n<div>  That none might take offense thereof, <\/div>\n<div>  Not register a tick, <\/div>\n<div>  Although his guff and red-hot air <\/div>\n<div>  Made all his readers sick. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>  Luke smiled on ev\u2019ry face he met, <\/div>\n<div>  And wrote all things up right, <\/div>\n<div>  And never was he known to mix <\/div>\n<div>  In any righteous fight; <\/div>\n<div>  When any local renegade <\/div>\n<div>  Got in a nasty mess <\/div>\n<div>  Luke smoothed it o\u2019er without a word, <\/div>\n<div>  And let his readers guess. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>  And thus poor Luke went blindly on <\/div>\n<div>  With plan he thought discreet, <\/div>\n<div>  Until his patrons \u2018gan to ask; <\/div>\n<div>  \u201cWhat good is Luke\u2019s old sheet? <\/div>\n<div>  Without backbone, nor e\u2019en a mind <\/div>\n<div>  To stand by home and right; <\/div>\n<div>  Nor e\u2019en the nerve to print the truth <\/div>\n<div>  In plain old black and white! <\/div>\n<div>  We\u2019ll stop our papers all at once, <\/div>\n<div>  Our sentiments to show!\u201d <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>  Then each into the sanctum stalked <\/div>\n<div>  And plainly told Luke so. <\/div>\n<div>  Thus poor L. Warm the lesson learned: <\/div>\n<div>  This honeysuckle fun <\/div>\n<div>  Of trying every class to please, <\/div>\n<div>  Displeases everyone. <\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   International communicator activity approaching  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  April 27-May 1, 2015 <\/p>\n<p>  Annual conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) in Wageningen, The Netherlands. <\/p>\n<p>  Information:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiaee.org\/index.php\/upcoming\">   http:\/\/www.aiaee.org\/index.php\/upcoming  <\/a> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Best wishes and good searching  <\/strong> <\/p>\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>  (we are more active now, so now is a great time to follow if you weren&#8217;t already!). And please suggest (or send) agricultural communications documents we might add to this unique 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>  <strong>   <strong>    <br \/>   <\/strong>  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"hidden\" id=\"timestamp\"> 2014-11-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative ag science communicator honored Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam recently received the 2014 Borlaug CAST Communication Award. At the University of California-Davis she is an extension specialist in animal genomics and biotechnology. She \u201cworks tirelessly and creatively to relay important information about agriculture and food production,\u201d according to the citation report. 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