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Allison Fortner, doctoral student, is headed to France to complete an internship with the Safe Seaweed Coalition. She has been assisting them with their science communication efforts the past 6 months virtually and will now spend time in Paris with the Secretariat and then Roscoff, at one of the biological research stations, to get first-hand…
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Alexa Lamm traveled to Washington D.C. this week to turnover the editorial reins of the Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education to Dr. Todd Brashears and Dr. Mary Rodriguez after 4 years as the Managing and Executive Editor. She reflected on the amount of research she has been privy to being conducted across the…
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Dr. Lamm was thrilled to engage with the Impact Collaborative Summit as a Key Informant on January 19th. The Impact Collaborative Summit helps increase Cooperative Extension’s organizational readiness and capacity for innovation and change by connecting teams with skills, tools, resources and partners that can expand and deepen their impact. Lamm’s role was to help…
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Authors develop an instrument to measure Extension networks’ advocacy capacity
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Climate change is often found to be a controversial topic; one where opposing positions argue. Through the rise of social media as the mainstream communication method used by the public to obtain information about critical issues, arguments on social media about climate change have overtaken the conversation. Given the changing climate has been identified as…
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As the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) turns 50, several of their past CAST Borlaug Communication award recipients were asked to discuss past and future efforts. Dr. Lamm shared her thoughts on how CAST can expand their communication efforts to reach and engage a broader audience. Her call to action included placing an…
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Did U.S. audiences in different geographic areas access media sources differently during COVID-19 when under shelter in place orders? Our recent publication uses sense-making theory to explore the differences in news access based on four geographic regions.
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In early 2020, when we were all locked up in our homes, waiting to learn more and relying on the internet as our sole source of information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, we all wondered where this mysterious virus came from with little scientific information available. Conspiracy theories ran rampant ranging from a form of warfare…
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What do African countries do when they face the challenge of personnel shortages in rural advisory services? The Malawi Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (MaFAAS) is striving to assist during times of extension personnel shortages. This case study examined the impact of a country for a network on ensuring farmers get the support they need.…
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Does the way we talk about technology impact the sustainability of digital agricultural innovations?
UGA researchers examine how artificial intelligence in agriculture is currently discussed on Twitter.