Entertainment education: a communication strategy for social change

By P. Svenkerud. 2001

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory

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Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence (2019, background): “According to the psychological theory underlying edutainment, the effects should be mediated by the extent to which viewers’ attention is captured by the characters and viewers can take the characters’ perspective (Singhal and Rogers, 1999).”
Explaining the Effects of Narrative in an Entertainment Television Program: Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion (2010, background): “Thus, an E-E program may be one educational scene, episode, or storyline embedded in an otherwise purely entertainment program (Greenberg et al., 2004; Singhal & Rogers, 1999).”
Television Dramas and Support for Controversial Public Policies: Effects and Mechanisms (2006, background): “…presumed ability to suppress counterarguing, and evidence regarding entertainment education programs and their effects on attitudes and behavior (Singhal & Rogers, 1999), that we will find a main effect for exposure to a narrative with potentially persuasive content: H1: Viewers of a television…”
Socially Optimized Learning in a Virtual Environment: Reducing Risky Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (2006, background): “As Slater (2002) notes, ‘‘apparently, without such epilogues it is too easy for viewers or listeners to focus on characters and not engage with the message’s persuasive subtext’’ (p.”
Audience Involvement and Entertainment—Education (2002, positive): “In recent years, scholars have begun to explore the process through which entertainment-education programs have their effects (Lozano, 1992; Singhal and Rogers, 1999; Storey, 1998).”
The Role of a Narrative's Emotional Flow in Promoting Persuasive Outcomes (2015, positive): “…start out resisting the recommended behaviors but then become converted to a healthier path can be effective role models for audiences who identify with those characters and, thus, experience their emotional lows followed by their highs (Haider, 2005; Singhal & Rogers, 1999; Vaughn & Rogers, 2000).”
Entertainment—Education and Elaboration Likelihood: Understanding the Processing of Narrative Persuasion (2002, background): “…unsympathetic audience members are typically addressed through the use of transitional characters, who initially espouse counterattitudinal beliefs but model the process of attitude and behavior change, as well as negative role models who experience undesired consequences (Singhal & Rogers, 1999).”
Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Better Be Prepared: An Analysis of the Rare Sexual Health Messages in Young Adolescents' Media (2008, background): “We know that entertainment education can be effective in promoting reproductive health (Brodie et al., 2001; Collins, Elliott, Berry, Kanouse, & Hunter, 2003; Singhal & Rogers, 1999).”