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WASH Communication (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene)
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People with Disabilities: Advocacy & Empowerment
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Shamba Shape Up (Agricultural Reality TV Programme, Kenya)
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Child Marriage
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Conflict Prevention, Mediation & Reconciliation: Role of Media
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Edutainment Campaigns: Concepts & Strategies
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Radio for Development
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Online Learning, E-Learning
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Civic Education: Use & Role of Media
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Audience Clubs & Listener Groups
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Television Use: Children
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Development Education: Films
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Development Assistance
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Energy Supply, Electricity
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Educational Effects of Media, Educational Role of Media
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
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Television Serials
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Environmental Communication
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Media Assistance: Impacts, Effectiveness, Efficiency
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Mega FM (Radio Station, Gulu, Uganda)
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Television Reception & Effects
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Research in Media & Communication
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Domestic Violence
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Reality & Communication, Truth & Media
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Television
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Rethinking Entertainment-Education for Development and Social Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 168-188
"The story of entertainment-education (EE) is that of a highly successful communication strategy that has achieved global recognition as a useful and effective approach to tackling contemporary development challenges. This chapter discusses the observed diversification of the science produced around
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Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia
Stockholm University, Department of Economics (2013), 49 pp.
"This paper investigates whether exposure to "edutainment" (education - entertainment) radio leads to improved women's status and primary school participation. Specifically, I examine a popular radio station focusing on gender issues in Cambodia. To identify the effect, I exploit plausible exogenous
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The Impacts of an Entertainment-Education Radio Serial Drama in Botswana on Outcomes Related to HIV Prevention Goals in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 3 (2013), pp. 353-367
"This study examines the effectiveness of an entertainment education (EE) programme, Makgabaneng, in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. If successful, this communication intervention should result in greater self-report of attitudes, actions and knowledge related to risk reduction goals am
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Entertainment-Education für Kinder: Potenziale medialer Gesundheitsförderung im Bereich Ernährung
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2013), 336 pp.
"Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Debatte um die Rolle der Medien für das kindliche Ernährungsverhalten und Übergewicht stellt dieser Band die Entertainment-Education-Strategie als Weg für eine effektive mediale Gesundheitskommunikation in den Mittelpunkt. Untersucht wird, ob in unterhaltende F
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Entertainment Education and Social Change
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 27, issue 1 (2013), 146 pp.
Edutainment: Using Stories and Media for Social Action and Behaviour Change
Key Guidance
Johannesburg: Soul City Institute (2013), 141 pp.
"This manual is for media practitioners and social activists who wish to use the power of entertainment and mass media to promote health, human rights and social justice. Drawing on successful stories and case studies from Africa and elsewhere, this manual aims to inspire, give fresh ideas and share
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Testing a Media Intervention in Kenya: Vioja Mahakamani, Dangerous Speech, and the Benesch Guidelines
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2013), 29 pp.
"Susan Benesch, human rights scholar, genocide prevention fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, has, over the last several years, developed an analytical framework for identifying ‘dangerous speech’
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Priming Effects of a Reconciliation Radio Drama on Historical Perspective-Taking in the Aftermath of Mass Violence in Rwanda
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, volume 49, issue 1 (2013), pp. 144-151
"A field experiment in Rwanda investigated the impact of a radio drama designed to increase perspective-taking with regard to the history of intergroup conflict. An audio-based priming technique was used to assess the causal impact of the radio drama. Rwandan participants (N=842) listened to an audi
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Raising Women’s Voices Through Radio Drama: Reflections from South Africa
Johannesburg: People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA); Community Media for Development (CMFD) (2012), 12 pp.
"This case study is being produced to share the process, techniques, and lessons learned from "Zaphamban' izindlela!" radio drama both as way to document, as well as facilitate others working on women’s issues to undertake similar initiatives. The case study demonstrates how entertaining forms of
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Reinforcement or Reactance? Examining the Effect of an Explicit Persuasive Appeal Following an Entertainment-Education Narrative
Journal of Communication, volume 62, issue 6 (2012), pp. 1010-1027
"Entertainment-education interventions frequently include an explicit persuasive appeal, such as an epilogue, at their conclusion. This may help to overcome potential limitations of narrative persuasion by highlighting and clarifying the underlying message. Despite this potential, an explicit persua
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Reality Television for Community Development: The Kwanda Initiative in South Africa
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special issue (2012), pp. 149-162
"Kwanda was an innovative community development initiative of the Soul City Institute and partners. Five deprived communities were challenged to make their areas 'look better, feel better and work better’ by addressing health and development issues. Responses to this challenge were documented in a
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Mobilizing the Hordes: Radio Drama as Development Theatre in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bamenda (CM): Langaa (2012), xvi, 277 pp.
Forum Theatre on the Air: Towards a Model of Participatory Radio Drama for Development on Community Radio
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 10, issue 2 (2012), pp. 173-187
"This article proposes an enhanced model of radio drama for development, which places forum theatre on the community radio platform. The model responds to the key development priorities of democratic, multi-directional communication, participation and social advocacy. It utilizes the mass disseminat
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Effects of the Gama Cuulu Radio Serial Drama on HIV-Related Behavior Change in Zambia
Journal of Health Communication, volume 17, issue 8 (2012), pp. 929-945
"The Gama Cuulu radio serial drama is written and produced in Zambia's Southern Province. It promotes behavior change and service use to prevent HIV transmission. The authors evaluated the effects of Gama Cuulu on intermediate outcomes (e.g., perceived norms), as well as number of sexual partners, c
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"Betrachtet man die Beliebtheit und den Hörerzuspruch für Loke Pol, kann man von einem Erfolg des Programmes sprechen. Auch wenn einige Aspekte des Senders Mega FM wie die quasi-Monopolposition die Rezeption des Programmes begünstigen, zählt Loke Pol sowohl in den Augen der Produzenten, angesich
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Les séries télévisées dans l’éducation sur le VIH: Atteindre les populations grâce au divertissement populaire
Inspiring Practice
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2011), 40 pp.
"Se rangeant parmi les cinq plus grands donateurs d’aide publique au développement (APD), l'Allemagne est fortement engagée dans la lutte pour un accès universel à la prévention, au traitement et à la prise en charge du VIH. Une bonne partie des contributions allemandes est accordée sous fo
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Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change
Inspiring Practice
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2011), xxiii, 324 pp.
"By assessing edutainment as a space of cultural translation, Drama for Development advances an often neglected perspective in this topics' research. It focuses on what happens when various goals, worldviews and needs from donors, producers and the audiences come together in the production and meani
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Radio Sound and Social Realism: In the Terrain of Drama for Development Production
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 7 (2011), pp. 595-609
"This article explores the use of sound in the context of two BBC World Service development-focused social realist radio drama productions in Afghanistan (New Home, New Life) and Nepal (Sweet Tales of the Sarangi). It examines the various ‘sound strategies' employed to enhance the realist aspirati
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Medios que mueven: Entretenimiento educativo para el cambio social
Key Guidance
La Haya: Oxfam Novib (2011), 82 pp.
