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  • 'We work as a team really': Gender Homophily on Australian Cotton Farms

    Author(s)
    Mackrell, Dale
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Mackrell, Dale C.
    Year published
    2005
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    This paper is based on an ongoing study that looks at farm management practices by Australian women cotton growers using farm management software, most particularly an agricultural decision support system, CottonLOGIC. The study is informed through a theoretical framework of structu-ration theory as a metatheory for probing the recursiveness of farm management and technology usage, and diffusion of innovations theory as a lower-level theory for analysing software adoption characteristics. Empirical research indicates that effective information exchange flows from ho-mophilous communication. In this paper, the principles ...
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    This paper is based on an ongoing study that looks at farm management practices by Australian women cotton growers using farm management software, most particularly an agricultural decision support system, CottonLOGIC. The study is informed through a theoretical framework of structu-ration theory as a metatheory for probing the recursiveness of farm management and technology usage, and diffusion of innovations theory as a lower-level theory for analysing software adoption characteristics. Empirical research indicates that effective information exchange flows from ho-mophilous communication. In this paper, the principles of homophily and heterophily in commu-nication networks were initially drawn from diffusion theory. The findings suggest that despite apparent gender disparities, the presence of empathy and shared goals between farming partners overrides 'gender heterophily' to become gender homophily. Therefore cotton growers are in-formed of scientific research through homophilous communication, influencing the construction and reconstruction of innovative software usage and existing farm management practices.
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    Journal Title
    Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
    Volume
    2
    Subject
    Information Systems
    Library and Information Studies
    Social Work
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4597
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