{"id":9237,"date":"2015-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-dev.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/15_11\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"15_11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/15_11\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News &#8211; Issue 15-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"library_acdc_h1\" style=\"text-align: right\">  <strong>   Issue 15-11  <\/strong> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fixed\">\n<p>  During this season of thanks and year-end reviewing, we want to express our appreciation to you for your interest in the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center. You add much to the value of it. <\/p>\n<p>  Thank you for your words of encouragement from around the world \u2013 for opportunities to serve you and help you gather information for your projects &#8211; for your ideas and suggestions \u2013 for interesting documents and collections you provide or call to our attention \u2013 for collaborating with us on research and writing projects \u2013 and for your friendship. We enjoy serving and working with you in the vital mission of improving communications related to one of our societies\u2019 most basic enterprises. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Critical questions for Big Data  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  That is the title of an article we added recently to the ACDC collection from the journal,  <em>   Information, Communication and Society  <\/em>  . Authors Danah Boyd and Kate Crawford posed five provocations about the \u201cmassive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions.\u201d <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>   Big Data changes the definition of knowledge.  <\/li>\n<li>   Claims to objectivity and accuracy are misleading.  <\/li>\n<li>   Bigger data are not always better data.  <\/li>\n<li>   Taken out of context, Big Data loses its meaning.  <\/li>\n<li>   Just because it is accessible does not make it ethical.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  You can read the article  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/1369118X.2012.678878\" title=\"Critical questions for Big Data\">   here  <\/a>  . <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Drivers, barriers and directions for reducing use of antibiotics  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  Veterinarians serve as key influencers of antibiotic use by dairy farmers in England and Wales, according to a 2015 research report.\u00a0 Here are kinds of information the researchers recommended supplying to veterinarians for use in consulting with producers: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>   Data on cost savings that might be obtained from reduced antibiotic use.  <\/li>\n<li>   Role that sub-optimal use of antibiotics has in causing antibiotic resistance.  <\/li>\n<li>   Advice on best practice in antibiotic use.  <\/li>\n<li>   Assurance that there are low risks to animal welfare from reduced antibiotic use.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  You can read the abstract of this article, \u201cFactors affecting dairy farmers\u2019 attitudes towards antimicrobial medicine use in cattle in England and Wales\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167587715002093\" title=\"Factors affecting dairy famers' attitudes towards antimoicrobial medicine use in cattle in England and Wales\">   here  <\/a>  .\u00a0 Or check with us at  <a href=\"mailto:docctr@library.illinois.edu\">   docctr@library.illinois.edu  <\/a>  for help in gaining access to the full report. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Wellbeing \u2013 more than GDP  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  Jeff Campbell, manager of the Forest and Farm Facility, made that point in an article we added recently from the AgriCultures Network. The Facility is a partnership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). <\/p>\n<p>  \u201cWorking together is a motivating and powerful approach to getting things done,\u201d he said. \u201cThis holds true for my own approach to life; for the work of the millions of forest and farm families stitching together complex livelihoods and ecosystems at a landscape level.\u00a0 Local indigenous peoples, smallholders, female farmers and forest dependent peoples have the knowledge and history, the culture and the potential to maintain and revitalise vibrant rural landscapes \u2013 we must trust and support them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  He emphasized that the complexities of ecological and cultural land use patterns increase our adaptation to climate change, diversify local livelihood possibilities and contribute to a more resilient approach to food security and nutrition. <\/p>\n<p>  You can read the article, \u201cListen and trust,\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriculturesnetwork.org\/magazines\/global\/farmers-landscapes\/interview-jeff-campbell\" title=\"Listen and Trust\">   here  <\/a>  . <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   \u201cFollowing the herd: Why pastoralism needs better media coverage\u201d  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  That is the title of a briefing paper we added recently to the ACDC collection. Mobile\/Nomadic pastoral communities have existed for centuries throughout the world. Many have shifted to sedentary crop-livestock farming. Using content analysis of stories in Kenya, China and India, researcher Mike Shanahan identified significant knowledge gaps and inter-country differences in how journalists perceive and portray pastoralists and pastoralism. <\/p>\n<p>  \u201cJournalists, researchers and pastoralist communities need to improve media coverage of pastoralism, and by doing so highlight pastoralism\u2019s potential contribution to sustainable development in a changing climate.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  You can read this brief report from the International Institute for Environment and Development  <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.iied.org\/pdfs\/10039IIED.pdf\" title=\"Following the herd: Why pastoralism needs better media coverage\">   here  <\/a>  . <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Discovering new sources  <\/strong>  . <\/p>\n<p>  You may be interested in some of the journals from which we have identified agricultural communications literature for the ACDC collection during recent months. The great scatter of literature about agricultural communications continues to impress and amaze us. <\/p>\n<p>  <em>   New Genetics and Society  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Ecquid Novi &#8211; African Journalism Studies  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Journal of Medical Ethics  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Economic Sociology  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Food Science and Technology  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Asia Pacific Media Educator  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Journal for Critical Educational Policy Studies  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Preventive Veterinary Medicine  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   International Journal of Consumer Studies  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   Public Perspectives  <\/em>  <br \/>  <em>   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability  <\/em> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Communicator activity approaching  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  January 29, 2016 <\/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 Memphis, Tennessee during June. Papers are invited from faculty members and\/or graduate students. Information: Jill Rucker at  <a href=\"mailto:kjrucker@uark.edu\">   kjrucker@uark.edu  <\/a> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  <strong>   Out of balance  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  We close this issue of ACDC News with a comment by Alissa Quart in her 2015 book of poetry,  <em>   Monetized  <\/em>  . <\/p>\n<p>  Too many words  <br \/>  Not enough ears <\/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>  . 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<\/div>\n<p class=\"hidden\" id=\"timestamp\"> 2015-12-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue 15-11 During this season of thanks and year-end reviewing, we want to express our appreciation to you for your interest in the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center. You add much to the value of it. 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