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Testing the Influence of Radio Programs on Climate Change Knowledge: A Pilot Experience from the Congo Basin
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
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Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
Florence: UNICEF (2014), 11 pp.
"A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is a way of doing impact evaluation in which the population receiving the programme or policy intervention is chosen at random from the eligible population, and a control group is also chosen at random from the same eligible population. It tests the extent to whi
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Assessment of Quality in Reporting with TMF Grants: Comparison of Works by Various TMF Grantees with Non-TMF Reporters’ Works
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2013), 28 pp.
"The results of this content analysis comparing TMF grantees with non-TMF control group show a remarkable performance of TMF. In many areas the TMF group performs significantly better than the control group which can be attributed to TMF's work. Significant good performance of TMF was found in the f
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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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Democracy, Governance and Randomised Media Assistance
Deep Insights
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 26 pp.
"This paper focuses attention on randomised field experiments in the developing world that explicitly address the use of media to achieve democracy and governance (DG) outcomes [...] The first section describes the growth of DG assistance and the increasing interest in DG field experiments. The seco
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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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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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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2012), 40 pp.
"Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of implementat
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Rich Digital Media as a Tool in Post-Conflict Truth and Reconciliation
Media, War & Conflict, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 231-249
"Modern rich digital media (such as interactive systems with audio and video as well as text) have not been robustly deployed as a tool in the processes of peace-building, healing and reconciliation in nations emerging from civil conflict. This article studies the use of rich digital media in Liberi
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Responses to Peace Journalism
Journalism, volume 14, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1041-1058
"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment, which gathered audience responses to television news coded as war journalism and peace journalism respectively, in two countries, Australia and the Philippines. From the peace journalism model, evaluative criteria were first derived
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Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India
[authors] (2010), 20 pp.
"Disclosure laws for politicians exist in over a hundred countries. But can disclosures about politician performance and qualifications influence electoral accountability in settings characterized by weak institutions and less educated populations? In the run-up to elections in Delhi we implemented
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Politicians and the News Media: How Elite Attacks Influence Perceptions of Media Bias
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 15, issue 3 (2010), pp. 319-43
"When political elites receive unfavorable news coverage, a common strategy is to attack the source. Past research suggests that attacks on the news media increase perceptions of media bias, but it remains unclear how this occurs. Using two experiments, the author examines how attacks on the news me
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Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda
American Political Science Review, volume 103, issue 4 (2009), pp. 622-644
"Deference and dissent strike a delicate balance in any polity. Insufficient deference to authority may incapacitate government, whereas too much may allow leaders to orchestrate mass violence. Although cross-national and cross-temporal variation in deference to authority and willingness to express
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A 10-Year Systematic Review of HIV/AIDS Mass Communication Campaigns: Have We Made Progress?
Deep Insights
Journal of Health Communication, volume 14 (2009), pp. 15-42
"The purpose of the current study was to conduct a 10-year systematic review of HIV/AIDS mass communication campaigns focused on sexual behavior, HIV testing, or both (1998-2007) and to compare the results with the last comprehensive review of such campaigns, conducted by Myhre and Flora (2000). A c
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Prejudice, Conflict and Media. Reducing Intergroup Prejudice and Conflict Using the Media: A Field Experiment in Rwanda
Harvard: Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2007), 64 pp.
"Can the media reduce intergroup prejudice and conflict? Despite the high stakes of this question, understanding of the mass media’s role in shaping prejudiced beliefs, norms, and behaviors is very limited. A year-long field experiment in Rwanda tested the impact of a radio soap opera about two Rw
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Fernsehen und Angstbewältigung: Zur Typologie des Zuschauerverhaltens
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 3rd ed. (2007), 222 pp.
"Für Studenten sollte nachvollziehbar sein, wie man von bestehenden Ergebnissen zu einer Forschungsidee, von dieser zu theoriengestützten Untersuchungsstrategien und durch diese über die Interpretation der Ergebnisse zu einem mehr oder weniger konsistenten Erkl/irungsmodell kommt. Aus diesem Grun
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Embedded journalists in the Iraq war: Are they at greater psychological risk?
Journal of Traumatic Stress, volume 18, issue 2 (2005), pp. 129-132
"The current war in Iraq saw an alliance between the media and the military, a process called embedded journalism. The aim of this study was to explore whether this process affected the journalists' vulnerability to psychological distress. Eighty-five of 100 journalists approached agreed to particip
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Entertainment-Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Field Experiment in Tanzania
Journal of Health Communication, volume 5, issue 1, Supplement 1 (2000), pp. 81-100
"Entertainment-education is the process of designing and implementing an entertainment program to increase audience members' knowledge about a social issue, create more favorable attitudes, and change their overt behaviors regarding the social issue. The results of a field experiment in Tanzania to
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