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Articles in Agricultural History use a wide range of methodologies to illuminate the history of farming, food, agricultural science and technology, the environment, rural life, and beyond.

Issue 100:4 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/BVU3DwL

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"Contrary to persistent stereotypes of wilderness and countryside, rural locations are heavily mediated and media intensive. What forms of mediation emerge when we foreground rurality in the function of media systems and technologies?"

Excerpt from Media Rurality by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney "Wind farms next to hearth-heated houses. Cell phone towers on isolated mountain tops. Data centers in sight of grazing cattle. -monitored mining access roads cutting through Indigenous land. Drones buzzing over croplands embedded by sensor arrays. Dams drawing energy from remote rivers and fiber-optic cables landing on quiet beaches. Ruined foundations of experimental colonial telecommunications facilities on either side of the Atlantic. Rural communities as hubs of high-tech industry and high-tech work. Border zones that serve as logistical exchanges for migrating media equipment, products, and workers. Informal networks of communication circulating information and cultural engagement with state development projects in metropolitan hinterlands. Low-tech, , and fugitive energy systems in energy-impoverished rural sacrifice zones. Right-wing news and content streaming into rural households and stoking smoldering, misplaced resentments. Contrary to persistent stereotypes of wilderness and countryside, rural locations are heavily mediated and media intensive. What forms of mediation emerge when we foreground rurality in the function of media systems and technologies? How do these forms of mediation affect how we think about, inhabit, and relate to rurality?"
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🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read???

stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

theguardian.comThatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved onlineProject lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
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