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Effective Serious Games Development: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Key Guides
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (2025), xii, 222 pp.
"This book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through different phases step by step. It follows a narrative approach, telling the story of a young game developer in a fictitious near-future setting who overcomes the challenges of a typical development pro
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Tobias and Syd: A research-based podcast audio-drama about tobacco
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 103-126
"We report on an experiment that used podcast audio-drama as a medium to generate impact from academic outputs in a creative, inclusive and collaborative way. Tobias and Syd was a serialized podcast audio-drama published in January 2023 based on ideas contained in the book Anthropology of Tobacco an
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Using social impact games to overcome intractable conflicts: The case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 16 pp.
"Is there a spillover effect in multiperspectivity regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among Israeli and Palestinian undergraduate students that results from playing a social impact game about a different conflictual context? We examined whether playing Fact Finders (Cyprus conflict) and Peac
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Tackling Misinformation with Games: A Systematic Literature Review
Interactive Learning Environments, volume 32, issue 10 (2024), pp. 7086-7101
"Misinformation and fake news are severe threats to society. The role of critical reading skills is crucial in the battle against misinformation. Despite the promising results of game-based interventions to mitigate the effects of misinformation, the corpus of research on games supporting critical r
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ADE for Games: Approaches to Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Games Research and Creation
Pittsburgh: Play Story Press (2024), viii, 241 pp.
Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh
Journal of Development Effectiveness, volume 16, issue 2 (2024), pp. 159-186
"Edutainment intervention is a popular and inexpensive behavioural change communication toolkit to raise positive social norms through broadcast media. We evaluated a 26-episode nationally broadcasted television series targeted to improve attitudes towards preventing child marriage in Bangladesh. We
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"Die kenianische, auch mit deutschem Geld produzierte Serie "Country Queen"läuft auf Arte und weltweit auf Netflix. Sie ist raffiniert erzählt - und ein Glücksfall für das globale Lagerfeuer." (Einleitung)
Evaluating Use of Mass-Media Communication Intervention ‘MTV-Shuga’ on Increased Awareness and Demand for HIV and Sexual Health Services by Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa: An Observational Study
BMJ Open, volume 13, issue e062804 (2023), 12 pp.
"Objective: To investigate the effect of exposure to 'MTV Shuga:Down South’ (MTVShuga-DS) during the scale-up of combination HIV-prevention interventions on awareness and uptake of sexual reproductive health (SRH) and HIV-prevention services by adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) [...] Conclus
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Teaching with Games: Formative Gaming in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
Gamevironments, issue 19 (2023), 205 pp.
"This special issue explores the power of games to shape worldviews, share perspectives, develop religious identities and provoke ethical reflection. Contributors bring together ideas from classrooms of philosophy and religious studies with case studies fromreligious communities and companies engage
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Efficacy of Radio Entertainment Education in Promoting Health Behavior: A Meta-Analysis
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 387-407
"Radio-based entertainment education (EE) programs have long been a way to communicate health-related information, particularly in developing countries. To explore the effectiveness of these campaigns, we used meta-analysis to examine the results of 20 published studies on the effectiveness of healt
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Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda
Journal of Health Communication, volume 28, issue suppl. 2 (2023), pp. 49-60
"Misinformation can decrease public confidence in vaccines, and reduce vaccination intent and uptake. One strategy for countering these negative impacts comes from inoculation theory. Similar to biological vaccination, inoculation theory posits that exposure to a weakened form of misinformation can
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Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 280 pp.
"As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient in
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‘It is Guiding Us to Protect Ourselves’: A Qualitative Investigation Into Why Young People Engage with a Mass-Media HIV Education Campaign
Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 25, issue 7 (2023), pp. 803-817
"This study explores how and why young people engage with MTV Shuga, a popular mass media campaign in South Africa, to understand what makes effective HIV edutainment. Young MTV Shuga viewers from the Eastern Cape, South Africa and their parents participated in remote individual interviews and focus
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Metaverse und Gaming: Potenziale für die Auswärtige Kultur- und Bildungspolitik
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 88 pp.
"Diese Studie trägt dazu bei, ein Verständnis für das Thema ,Gaming‘ und seine Derivate zu vermitteln und mithilfe von interdisziplinären, theoriegeleiteten Übersichten, Modellen und Handlungsempfehlungen eine praxisorientierte, qualifizierte Extended Gaming Literacy für Akteur:innen der Aus
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