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Silence Begets Violence: A Mass Media Experiment to Prevent Violence Against Women in Rural Uganda?

Donald P. Green, Anna Wilke, Jasper Cooper

New York: Columbia University (2018), 42 + 69 pp.

"Preventing violence against women (VAW) requires witnesses to come forward, yet willingness to report is often undermined by social sanctions against those suspected of fabricating allegations. Our theory of the micro-politics of information disclosure in interdependent communities elucidates the r ... more

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The fake news game: Actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation

Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden

Journal of Risk Research, volume 22, issue 5 (2018), pp. 570-580

"The rapid spread of online misinformation poses an increasing risk to societies worldwide. To help counter this, we developed a ‘fake news game’ in which participants are actively tasked with creating a news article about a strongly politicized issue (the European refugee crisis) using misleadi ... more

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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda

Elizabeth Starmann, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe et al.

BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.

"This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communitie ... more

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Effect of a Mass Radio Campaign on Family Behaviours and Child Survival in Burkina Faso: A Repeated Cross-Sectional, Cluster-Randomised Trial

Sophie Sarrassat, Nicolas Meda, Badola Hermann, Moctar Ouedrogo, Henri Someet al.

Lancet Global Health, volume 6, issue 3: e330-341 (2018), pp. 330-341

"Media campaigns can potentially reach a large audience at relatively low cost but, to our knowledge, no randomised controlled trials have assessed their effect on a health outcome in a low-income country. We aimed to assess the effect of a radio campaign addressing family behaviours on all-cause po ... more

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Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on Debate Participation in a Liberian Election

Jeremy Bowles, Horacio Larreguy

[no publisher] (2018), 45, 24 pp.

"In this paper we assess the electoral consequences of candidate selection into the supply of widely-disseminated programmatic information in the setting of Liberia, where clientelism is pervasive and the media sector is weak. We partnered with USAID and the NGO Internews to study the impact of rand ... omized elements of a nationwide initiative to hold debates for all 73 House of Representatives seats ahead of the Liberian election of October 2017. Beyond lawmaking, House members in Liberia control access to development funds as well as play key roles in the allocation and implementation of public goods, and thus voters have incentives to care about the policy priorities of the candidates and vote accordingly. However, historically, votes have been bought as often as won (Bowles et al., 2017). In an effort to improve democratic accountability, Internews organized 129 standardized debates, with at least one in each electoral district, to solicit the policy promises of the participating candidates. In the debates, the 59% of candidates who participated were asked a series of questions by moderating journalists on particular issues of local policy relevance, most often relating to district schools, primary healthcare facilities, and infrastructural investments. Rather than large townhall-style debates, the emphasis was on soliciting concrete policy platforms and promises from the candidates that would then be rebroadcast by community radio stations. To shock the supply of policy promises, we randomly varied the intensity of invitation efforts to persuade candidates to participate in the debates. The decision to participate is risky, particularly in clientelistic settings where the returns to programmatic competition can be both limited and highly uncertain. Candidates who ‘win’ a debate may enjoy greater publicity and net electoral gains, but ex ante they risk performing poorly, revealing their policy priorities to be disconnected from their constituents and restricting their ability to target campaign promises to small groups of influential voters. These risks are especially pronounced for the leading candidates (incumbents and their challengers), who enjoy greater resources for campaigning, are adapted to the existing clientelistic equilibrium, and are more likely to be attacked by opponents to gain publicity." (Pages 2-3) more

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How Media Portrayals of Suffering Influence Willingness to Help: The Role of Solvability Frames

Lauren Kogen, Susanna Dilliplane

Journal of Media Psychology, volume 31 (2017), pp. 92-102

"When we hear stories of distant humanitarian crises, we often feel sympathy for victims, but may stop short of taking action to help. Past research indicates that media portrayals of distant suffering can promote helping behavior by eliciting sympathy, while those that prompt a more rational respon ... more

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Modeling Collective Action Through Media to Promote Social Change and Positive Intergroup Relations in Violent Conflicts

Rezarta Bilali, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Jason Ray David Rarick

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, volume 68 (2017), pp. 200-211

"Does social influence exerted through role modeling of collective action impact social change in contexts that are not conducive to collective action, such as long-lasting violent conflicts?We examined this question in two field experiments in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We created tw ... more

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Storytelling for Social Change: Leveraging Documentary and Comedy for Public Engagement in Global Poverty

Lauren Feldman Caty Borum Chattoo

Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 678-701

"Narrative is essential for public engagement with global poverty. Stand Up Planet, a documentary about global development, was produced to evaluate the effects of a little-utilized nonfiction comedy narrative. Using a pretest–posttest experimental design, this study examines shifts in U.S. audien ... more

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Can Media Interventions Reduce Gender Gaps in Political Participation After Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Liberia

Eric Mvukiyehe

Washington, DC: World Bank (2017), 16 pp.

"Five weeks prior to the 2011 general election in Liberia, women in randomly selected villages were allocated radios and organized into groups to listen regularly to radio programs on the electoral process broadcast by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The field experiment was designed ... more

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Assessing the Impact of a Media-Based Intervention to Prevent Intergroup Violence and Promote Positive Intergroup Relations in Burundi

Rezarta Bilali, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Jason Ray David Rarick

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, volume 26, issue 3 (2016), pp. 221-235

"The present study (N= 1074) examined the impact of a theory-driven media intervention aimed atviolence prevention and intergroup reconciliation in Burundi. We used a novel methodology utilizing audio-based surveys to assess attitudes related to intergroup conflict and reconciliation among community ... more

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Crowdseeding in Eastern Congo: Using Cell Phones to Collect Conflict Events Data in Real Time

Peter Van der Windt, Macartan Humphreys

Journal of Conflict Resolution, volume 60, issue 4 (2016), pp. 748-781

"Poor-quality data about conflict events can hinder humanitarian responses and bias academic research. There is increasing recognition of the role that new information technologies can play in producing more reliable data faster. We piloted a novel data-gathering system in the Democratic Republic of ... more

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Social Media Use During Disasters: How Information Form and Source Influence Intended Behavioral Responses

Brooke Fisher Liu, Julia Daisy Fraustino, Yan Jin

Communication Research, volume 43, issue 5 (2016), pp. 626-646

"This study provides insights that can inform disaster communication management, policymaking, and theory building through a nationally representative field experiment (N = 2,015 U.S. adults) grounded in media richness theory, information and communication technologies (ICTs) succession theory, and ... more

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Can Mass Media Cause Change? A Randomised Control Trial Finds Out

BBC Media Action (2016)

"Can the mass media cause changes in an audience’s knowledge, attitudes and intention to practise behaviours? At BBC Media Action, we have just successfully conducted a randomised control trial (RCT) to investigate this chain of causality in a prime time health TV drama in Bangladesh." (Introducti ... more

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The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa

Philip Keefer, Stuti Khemani

World Bank Economic Review, volume 30, issue 2 (2016), pp. 233-267

"We use a “natural experiment” in media markets in Benin to examine the impact of community radio on government responsiveness to citizens. Contrary to prior research on the impact of mass media, in this experiment government agents do not provide greater benefits to citizens whose exposure to c ... more

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How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge

Eric Arias

New York: New York University, Department of Politics;UNESCO (2016), 28 pp.

"How does media influence beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors? We know surprisingly little about this influence and I argue that two mechanisms account for its impact. Media provides new information that persuades individuals to accept it (individual channel), but also, media informs listeners about w ... more

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Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Devra C. Moehler

Journal of Politics, volume 77, issue 2 (2015), pp. 575-587

"Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media ... more

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Testing the Influence of Radio Programs on Climate Change Knowledge: A Pilot Experience from the Congo Basin

Alba Saray Perez-Teran, Anne Marie Tiani, Merline Touko-Tchoko, Bérenger Tchatchou

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2015), v, 17 pp.

"We provide an assessment of the change in knowledge of a rural village in the Congo Basin after inhabitants listened to one of the radio programs that were prepared on climate change. The document also provides potential indicators for result up-scaling. After applying a micro-economic model to a c ... more

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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.

Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100

"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more

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Psychophysiological Audience Responses to War Journalism and Peace Journalism

Jake Lynch, Annabel Mc Goldrick, James Heathers

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 3 (2015), pp. 201-217

"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment in which television viewers were exposed to either a war journalism (WJ) or a peace journalism (PJ) version of two news stories, on Australian government policies towards asylum seekers and US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ between Israe ... more

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Do Mass Media Interventions Effectively Promote Peace in Contexts of Ongoing Violence? Evidence from Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Rezarta Bilali, Johanna Ray Vollhardt

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, volume 21, issue 4 (2015), 17 pp.

"We report on a field experiment and a focus group interview study that examine the impact of a media-based intervention (i.e., radio drama) aimed at promoting peaceful intergroup relations in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In Study 1, we used a priming paradigm to assess the causal ... more