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Peer reviewedAudirac, Ivonne; Beaulieu, Lionel J. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Proposes new model for study of microcomputer technology in agriculture in which diffusion/adoption of innovations is conceptualized as a structural process affected by "access conditions" resulting from research and development, intrinsic technology characteristics, and distributional characteristics. Examines thesis that potential adopters…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Trends, Change, Diffusion (Communication)
Download full textBeaulieu, Lionel J. – 2002
Although the economic expansion of the 1990s was felt even in small towns and rural areas, events in recent months point out that the economic health of rural America remains fragile. Rural manufacturing has suffered sizable employment declines in recent months and only modest expansion has occurred in the service sector--the lifeblood of rural…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Computers, Community Development, Community Needs
