farmers are the most persuasive. Incorporating communication dynamics can enrich the literature on social learning. … agents to communicate with farmers, although social networks are known to be the most credible source of information about … new technologies. We conduct a large-scale field experiment on communication strategies in which extension workers are …

-scale experiment to test these predictions among farmers in Western Kenya, and we fail to find support for either. However, in the same … this new technology. The core idea of the model is that not all information is reliable, and farmers are reluctant to …, transparent technologies to facilitate communication …

); internet-based communication seems to stimulate local offline communication (Storper and Venables, 2004). Social network sites … are major fields of online communication and "enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks" (boyd and … Ellison, 2007). Online social network (OSN) are large-scale networks and claimed to be supplemental forms of communication …