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Tracing the linkages of world views, information handling, and communications vehicles

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Too often, advocates of domain-specific belief systems overlook the implications of their beliefs when choosing communications technologies and strategies, although they rarely overlook the importance of content. This essay argues that both environmentalism and sustainable agriculture, as systems of belief, favor certain strategies of generating and distributing information over others; that is, the essay argues that both the content and form of communications imply certain value preferences, hence both are subject to value-relevant choices. An additional purpose of the essay is to set a context for this special edition of Agriculture and Human Values. Collectively the articles in this edition discuss a wide variety of issues, including but not limited to questions connected to information generation, access to information and information technologies, and the value systems conveyed by communications vehicles, including what is conveyed and different discussions of what should be conveyed. This essay looks at the importance of four sets of domain-specific value systems (environmentalism, sustainable agriculture, and the conventionalism counters to both of these) for two different sets of value systems connected to information generation, and further discusses each of these value sets in connection to choosing asymmetrical or symmetrical communications. It is hoped that this discussion of the flow of information, from generation to distribution, will provide a context for reading the edition as a whole. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992

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  • Ann Reisner, 1992. "Tracing the linkages of world views, information handling, and communications vehicles," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 9(2), pages 4-16, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:9:y:1992:i:2:p:4-16
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02217622
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    1. Eric Abbott & J. Yarbrough, 1992. "Inequalities in the information age: Farmers' differential adoption and use of four information technologies," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 9(2), pages 67-79, March.
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    1. Harp, Aaron J., 1995. "Farmers And The Context Of Information For Sustainable Agriculture: A Report To The Sustainable Agriculture Network," A.E. Extension Series 304962, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.

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