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Reducing Albinism Related Stigma in Tanzania: An Exploration of the Impact of Radio Drama and Radio Interview
Disability & Society, volume 37, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1479-1500
"Reducing stigma is key to improving the wellbeing of people with albinism in Tanzania. This study aimed to obtain more insight into the effects of two radio interventions with regard to albinism-related stigma: a radio drama and a radio interview. Assessment of the radio interventions was based on
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Romper el Silencio: Historias Para no Repetir la Historia. Una estrategia de eduentretenimiento basada en la Realidad colombiana, Para cambiar Lla Realidad colombiana
Bogotá: Fundación Imaginario (2022), 8 pp.
"A través de historias que nos conmueven y nos tocan emocionalmente, Romper el Silencio tiene como objetivo enseñarnos a escuchar a otras personas con apertura y empatía, aunque piensen distinto; a reconocer sus argumentos aunque no sean los nuestros; a respetar sus ideas sin señalamientos y al
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Using Markers for Digital Engagement and Social Change: Tracking Meaningful Narrative Exchange in Transmedia Edutainment with Text Analytics Techniques
Digital Health, volume 8 (2022), pp. 1-18
"While social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for orchestrating large-scale communication campaigns, it is often difficult to track audience responses on various digital platforms over time and to ascertain if their engagement is aligned with the original intention. In this article, we shar
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Overcome the Fear (Vencer El Miedo): Using Entertainment Education to Impact Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Parent-Child Communication in Mexico
BMC Public Health, volume 22, issue 2366 (2022), 12 pp.
"Adolescents in Mexico experience high pregnancy and birth rates. A collaboration with Grupo Televisa led to the development of an entertainment-education telenovela intervention, Overcome the Fear (OTF), which aired in 2020 to a national audience and addressed adolescent sexual and reproductive hea
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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms: An Experiment Within Facebook Messenger in India
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 53 pp.
"This paper experimentally tests the effectiveness of two short edutainment campaigns (under 25 minutes) delivered through Facebook Messenger at reshaping gender norms and reducing social acceptability of violence against women in India. Participants were randomly assigned to watch video clips with
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Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Using Games to Drive Innovation and Facilitate Learning
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Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), 219 pp.
"This book introduces the potential of gamification and games to solve the great societal and organisational challenges that corporations and public institutions are dealing with today. It is written for innovation professionals, entrepreneurs, game designers, and students who seek to understand and
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Using Radio Drama to Tackle Disability Discrimination in Nigeria
London: BBC Media Action (2022), 15 pp.
"As part of the Inclusive Futures programme, BBC Media Action produced a radio drama, Story Story, and accompanying social media content, to tackle stigma and discrimination around disability in Nigeria. This content was broadcast from November 2020 to November 2021 through local radio partners in s
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Radio Drama as a Tool for Activism in South Africa: The Case of 'Plague in the Time of King Kapital and Queen Corona'
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 19, issue 1 (2021), pp. 59-77
"How can sound be utilized as a tool for political conscientization? COVID-19 has disrupted face-to-face organizing tactics for progressive movements globally, making it necessary to branch out to more mediated forms of grassroots political organizing. In this article, we explore how sound might be
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Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes: Case Studies for Theory and Practice
Inspiring Practice
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxxiii, 354 pp.
"This book lays out the history of entertainment-education and discusses the boundaries of what counts as entertainment-education and narrative persuasion, includes both authors who work within academia and authors who are practitioners, and chapters focusing on developed and developing countries; d
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A Qualitative Examination of Alcohol Use and IPV Among Nepali Couples in a Violence Prevention Intervention
Global Public Health, volume 16, issue 4 (2021), pp. 597-609
"Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts the physical and mental health of one in three women globally, with equally high rates in rural Nepal. The risk of physical violence, stalking, harassment, and homicide between intimate partners increases when alcohol is used by the perpetrator. This study ev
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Young Adults’ Responses to an African and US-Based COVID-19 Edutainment Miniseries: Real-Time Qualitative Analysis of Online Social Media Engagement
JMIR Formative Research, volume 5, issue 10: e30449 (2021), 12 pp.
"In April 2020, as cases of the novel COVID-19 spread across the globe, MTV Staying Alive Foundation created the educational entertainment miniseries MTV Shuga: Alone Together. In 70 short episodes released daily on YouTube, Alone Together aimed to disseminate timely and accurate information to incr
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Entertainment-Education Campaigns and COVID-19: How Three Global Organizations Adapted the Health Communication Strategy for Pandemic Response and Takeaways for the Future
Health Communication, volume 36, issue 1 (2021), pp. 42-49
"COVID-19 created a substantial set of challenges for health communication practitioners in the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating entertainment-education (EE) campaigns. EE is a theory and evidence-based communication strategy that employs entertainment media for educational messagin
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Persuasive Gaming in Context
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 264 pp.
"The ubiquitous presence of digital games has resulted in an expansion of the applications of these games from mere entertainment purposes to a great variety of serious purposes. In this edited volume, we narrow the scope of attention by focusing on what game theorist Ian Bogost has called 'persuasi
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Starting Conversations to Tackle Sanitation in India Through TV Drama: Evaluation of Navrangi Re!
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 45-58
"There is a growing body of evidence from rigorous evaluations demonstrating the effectiveness of education entertainment – ‘edutainment’– interventions in achieving development outcomes. Building on this research, this study presents the results of a pioneering quasi-experimental evaluation
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Video Games as Tools for Non-State Cultural Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Video Game 'Never Alone'
Boulder: University of Colorado, doctoral thesis (2021), x, 272 pp.
"With rapidly changing digital platforms and the impact of globalization on cultural diplomacy that has provoked the increasing mediatization of the field, non-state actors are now able to expand networks and gain legitimacy by addressing new publics using digital spaces. While the research about th
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History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2020), 280 pp.
"Where do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time-space that eludes human intervention. Every account made of the past is therefore only an approximation. But how is it that strolling through ancient A
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Entertainment-Education Versus Extremism: Examining Parasocial Interaction Among Arab Viewers of Anti-ISIS TV Drama
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Journal for Deradicalization, issue 24 (2020), pp. 40-77
"Recent reports indicate that over 20,000 Arab fighters traveled to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria and another 5-15 percent of millennials across seven Arab countries consider some violent extremist groups to be on the right path. In response, Arab countries have experimented with entertainment-educati
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Participatory Edutainment in Practice: A Case Study of Wan Smolbag, Vanuatu
Malmö: Malmö University (2020), 68 pp.
El radioteatro: Olvido, renacimiento y su consumo en otras plataformas
Salamanca: Comunicación Social (2020), 185 pp.
"'El Radioteatro. Olvido, renacimiento y su consumo en otras plataformas' nos ofrece las claves del pasado, presente y futuro de un género, de un formato radiofónico que se sustancia en una explosión de creatividad que acaricia nuestros sentidos y nos abre a un mundo de posibilidades en una perfe
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In Full View: Creatively Tackling Sanitation in India
London: BBC Media Action (2020), 14 pp.
"Navrangi Re! (Nine To A Shade), a 26–episode television drama series was created to take the discussion on e Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) to mainstream audiences, beyond the domain of infrastructure and technology. It was the result of a unique partnership between a donor (the Bill & Melinda Ga
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