"Twelve years later, in 1983, with the total number of diffusion publications grown to almost 4,000, Rogers published the third edition which further revised the theoretical framework and introduced new concepts and theoretical viewpoints. All thre
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e editions have extensive bibliographies of works cited and are indexed." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 364)
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"In the 1971 edition of Communication of Innovations: A Cross-Cultural Approach, research had almost quadrupled, and its nature had become more varied and more involved with developing countries, necessitating a change in generalization about the theory." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass medi
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a bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 363)
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"The purposes of the present study are: (1) to examine the nature of the modernization process among peasants in one less developed country, Colombia, and (2) to determine the cross-cultural validity of these findings in other of the less developed nations. Peasants are important subjects of study b
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y social scientists because they constitute a majority of the population of most less developed nations. In this book modernization is viewed as essentially a communication process; modernizing message must reach the peasant via such communication channels as the mass media, change agents, or the villager's trips to cities. The methodological approach to theory construction in the present work is middle-range analysis. Data were gathered from peasants in six Colombian villages varying in degree of modernization; comparable data-gathering procedures and measures were used in two studies in India and one in Kenya in order to provide cross-cultural tests of generalization. Functional literacy was measured among the Colombian peasants by asking each respondent to read a six-word sentence in Spanish. Highly positive relationships were obtained between functional literacy scores and (1) self-defined literacy, and (2) years of formal education. These findings have been confirmed with data from a sample of 702 Indian peasants, whose responses lend cross-cultural credence to the conclusions." (ERIC databse)
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"This is a study of mass media exposure of peasants in five Colombian villages. It relates this exposure to prior literacy, education, social status, age, and cosmopoliteness, and measures its consequences in terms of empathy, innovativeness, political knowledge, achievement, and aspiration." (Abstr
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"In 1963 when Rogers published the first edition of Diffusion of Innovations, summarizing and evaluating research results on the spread of ideas, his literature search revealed about 500 studies ranging from "new drugs among physicians to hand tool
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s among primitive tribes to hybrid corn among farmers." These he described and synthesized, along with unpublished research and personal discussions with American and European researchers in the area. Many of the studies involved cultures other than Western, and many were done by scholars in anthropology, sociology and related disciplines. Rogers concluded his survey with this statement: "This book is the first of two volumes. The second volume, co-authored with Shoemaker, can perhaps be written in ten or fifteen years after the leads for research suggested here have been followed and expanded upon." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 362)
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"In the pages that follow are listed the 489 bibliographical items on the diffusion of innovations. Some of the major works are briefly annotated." (Page 3)