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Rogers, Everett (1931-2004)
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Democratization
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Public Spheres
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"Sending messages is likely to only be effective in conjunction with a comprehensive approach involving a wider range of activities, such as dialogue or training. The media, such as newspapers, radio and television, are the main way that messages to change attitudes and behaviour are communicated in ... more
"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 ... more

Media Interventions

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2013), xvi, 430 pp.
"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 ... more

Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2012), vi, 266 pp.

Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)

Auckland Park: Jacana Media;University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.
"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu ... more

Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change

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 ... more

Entertainment-Education Through Digital Games

In: Serious games: Mechanisms and effects
Ute RItterfield; Michael Cody; Peter Verderer (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2009), pp. 271-292
"In summary, the present chapter analyzed the role of digital games in the growing practice of entertainment-education. We argued that serious games should not be automatically labeled as E-E digital games just because they include some social content. Connections were drawn between the social inter ... more

Using Edutainment for Distance Education in Community Work

Michael Bailey (contrib.)
New Dehli: Sage (2008), 309 pp.
"Community workers in developing countries can provide on-the-ground support to encourage the general public to adopt and maintain behaviour change. This book is designed specifically as a guide for the creation of distance education programmes for these community workers. Covering the whole process ... more
"This publication focuses on unique communication-centered approaches to social change and introduces basic concepts, strategies and theories supporting edutainment strategies to foster social change and social movement building. It provides examples of how the organizations have used edutainment st ... more

Entertainment education

In: Medienpsychologie: Schlüsselbegriffe und Konzepte
Nicole C. Krämer; Stephan Schwan; Dagmar Unz; Monika Suckfüll (eds.)
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2008), pp. 161-166
"Zusammenfassend bleibt festzustellen, dass mit Hilfe von Entertainment Education (EE) erwiesenermaßen positive Verhaltens- und Wissenseffekte zu erzielen sind. Allerdings wurde auch schon festgestellt, dass die Wirkung einzelner EE-Botschaften nicht unbedingt vorhersagbar ist: Nach der Ausstrahlun ... more
"This book includes 17 articles on the current state of communication for development from renowned communication practitioners and scholars. It covers five areas: an introduction to the relationship between development, participation and communication; the theoretical underpinnings of development c ... more
"This paper is a peer review of journals addressing the issue of the impact of development communication in a number of development projects and programs. It provides an overview of this discipline and then discusses the evidence about the impact of development communication according to a typology ... more
"In this paper we will be looking at the evidence of impact from interventions in the so-called ‘traditional’ media – TV, radio and, to a much lesser extent, print – and factors contributing to that impact. By ‘media interventions’ we mean using mass-media in support of development objec ... more
"This collection of 10 original essays honors the intellectual legacy of Prof Everett M Rogers (1931–2004), a pioneering and distinguished teacher—scholar of diffusion of innovations, communication networks, and social change. Well-known colleagues and contemporaries write on topics that not onl ... more

Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development

Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO);Nordicom (2005), 493 pp.