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Entertainment-Education and Social Change: An Analysis of Parasocial Interaction, Social Learning, Collective Efficacy, and Paradoxical Communication

Michael Papa, Arvind Singhal, Sweety Law, Saumya Pant, Suruchi Sood, Everett M. Rogers, Corinne L. Shefner-Rogers

Journal of Communication, volume 50, issue 4 (2000), pp. 31-55

"Most past studies of entertainment-education programs have not provided an adequate theoretical explanation of the process through which community members enact system-level changes as a result of exposure to entertainment-education media message. Here we study the effects of an entertainment-educa ... more

Consuming Audiences? Production and Reception in Media Research

Ingunn Hagen, Janet Wasko (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2000), vi, 330 pp.

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Mass Media and Cultural Identity: Ethnic Reporting in Asia

Anura Goonasekera, Youichi Ito

London: Pluto Press (1999), 305 pp.

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Children and Media: Image, Education, Participation

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson (eds.)

Göteborg: UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (1999), 483 pp.

"This yearbook compiles research findings on children and youth and media violence from the perspective of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The thematic focus of this yearbook is on what is being done to combat gratuitous media violence. It presents information on media educ ... more

The Art of Facilitating Participation: Releasing the Power of Grassroots Communication

Shirley A. White (ed.)

Thousand Oaks: Sage (1999), 367 pp.

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Monitoring the Media Coverage of the October 1998 Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan: Final Report

Düsseldorf: European Institute for the Media (1999), 30 pp.

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Public Service Broadcasting in Asia: Surviving in the New Information Age

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (1999), 168 pp.

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Youth and the Global Media: Papers from the 29th University of Manchester Broadcasting Symposium, 1998

Sue Ralph, Jo Langham Brown, Tim Lees (eds.)

Bedfordshire: University of Luton Press (1999), xiv, 249 pp.

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Espelhos míticos da cultura de massa: Cinema, TV e quadrinhos na Índia

Lúcia Fabrini de Almeida

São Paulo: Annablume (1999), iii, 106 pp.

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Image Journeys: Audio-Visual Media and Cultural Change in India

Christiane Brosius, Melissa Butcher (eds.)

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks; London: Sage (1999), 338 pp.

"This volume examines the influence of audio-visual media in cultural change in India. The essays focus on: the dynamics of network change; the relationships between image and viewer; and the journey of images between points of reading in contemporary India that are mediated through television, cine ... more

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Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema

Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen

New Delhi: Oxford University Press;National Film Archive of India, 2nd ed. (1999), 658 pp.

"Most of the facts in this book are gleaned from available sources, representing the most reliable ones we could find for each of India’s cinemas (the sources are listed below). Many of these are what we earlier called, somewhat dismissively, ‘official’. Given the nature of the Indian film ind ... more

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Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change

Arvind Singhal, Everett M. Rogers

Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1999), 265 pp.

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New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere

Dale F. Eickelman, Jon W. Anderson (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (1999), ix, 213 pp.

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Monitoring the Media Coverage of the May 1999 Parliamentary Elections in Armenia: Final Report July 1999

Düsseldorf: European Institute for the Media (1999), 67 pp.

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Ethics in Journalism: A Reader on Their Perception in the Third World

Michael Kunczik (ed.)

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (1999), 270 pp.

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Efficacy in Letter-Writing to an Entertainment-Education Radio Serial

Sweety Law, Arvind Singhal

International Communication Gazette, volume 61, issue 5 (1999), pp. 355-372

"The influence of efficacy, both self and collective, in the adoption of prosocial behaviors has not been examined in the context of large-scale communication campaigns that use mass media interventions. Our purpose is to identify efficacious dimensions in letter-writers' communication to an enterta ... more

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Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death

Susan D. Moeller

New York; London: Routledge (1999), 390 pp.

"From outbreaks of the flesh eating viruses Ebola and Strep A, to death camps in Bosnia and massacres in Rwanda, the media seem to careen from one trauma to another, in a breathless tour of poverty, disease and death. First we're horrified, but each time they turn up the pitch, show us one image mor ... more

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