Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers have developed this unique volume focused on the history and development of entertainment-education. This approach to communication is the process of designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate to increase audience members' knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes, and change overt behavior. It uses the universal appeal of entertainment to show individuals how they can live safer, healthier, and happier lives. Entertainment formats such as soap operas, rock music, feature films, talk shows, cartoons,...
Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers have developed this unique volume focused on the history and development of entertainment-education. This approac...
Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and throughout the world, the multiple communication theories that bear on E-E, and a range of research methods for studying the effects of E-E interventions. The editors include commentary and insights from prominent E-E theoreticians, practitioners, activists, and researchers, representing a wide range of nationalities and theoretical...
Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This disti...
This title grew out of several previous efforts to tell the story of entertainment-education. It represents a resource book that introduces its readers to E-E literature written from varied perspectives. Chapter authors include E-E theoreticians, practitioners, and researchers and display a wide range of nationalities and theoretical orientations. This diversity of thought is typical of modern entertainment-education - a movement that has moved far beyond its beginnings. theoretical, and practical perspectives. Examples of successful E-E designs, theories, and applications should make this a...
This title grew out of several previous efforts to tell the story of entertainment-education. It represents a resource book that introduces its reader...
This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Expert contributors discuss and evaluate the roles and outcomes of media and communication for social mobilization, media mobilization, community mobilization, advocacy, participation, empowerment, capacity-building, resistance, networking, and action for progressive social change. Chapters explore communicative actions involved in social, economic, political, and cultural integration and the...
This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for cha...