AGRICULTURE JOURNALISM :

The book that you now have before you is a product of the conviction that we should care about Agriculture journalism and its study. We should care about journalism because its central to democracy, citizenship, and everyday life, and we should care about journalism studies because it helps us understand this key social institution. We are not alone in holding this conviction: Agriculture Journalism studies is one of the fastest growing areas within the larger discipline of communication research and media studies. As indicated by a serious, though not altogether coherent body of academic literature and ongoing scholarly work, the study of journalism has matured to become an academic field of its own right. We felt that the arrival of Agriculture journalism studies ought to be both celebrated and solidified, and to honor this ambition, The book of Agriculture Journalism Studies was conceived as a gathering place for the varied lasting and emerging preoccupations of scholars in the field. This book therefore bears witness to the rapid and exciting developments within this important area of research, as well as its complexity, richness and promise in terms of theory and research. We hope the book can boost the intellectual foundations of journalism studies, providing the reader with an overview of journalism as a dynamic field of study across its diverse epistemological, theoretical and methodological traditions.