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Media Literacy: Disinformation, Fake News, Hate Speech
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Media Effects
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Edutainment Radio Programmes
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Conflict-Sensitive Radio Journalism, Radio in Conflict Prevention & Transformation
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Health Disinformation & Misinformation
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Health Campaigns: Experiences
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Edutainment Health Programmes
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COVID-19 Communication
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Health Campaigns: Effects & Effectiveness
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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Randomised Control Trials & (Quasi-) Experimental Designs
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Election Campaigns
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Behaviour Change Communication
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Fact-Checking & Verification of Sources
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Child Marriage
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Storytelling
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Reconciliation Work
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Conflict Prevention, Mediation & Reconciliation: Role of Media
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Conflict-Sensitive & Peace Journalism
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Media Assistance: Conflict Prevention, Mediation & Reconciliation
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Trauma, Coping with Trauma, Trauma Therapy
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Edutainment Campaigns: Effects & Effectiveness
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Edutainment Campaigns: Experiences
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Facebook
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Humour, Parody, Satire
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Bias in News Media
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Gender and Radio
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Sexual Health Communication, Reproductive Health Education, Family Planning
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Constructive Journalism, Solution-Oriented Journalism
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Journalists Dealing with Risks & Threats, Resilience & Wellbeing of Media Workers
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Radio Dramas, Radio Soap Operas, Radio Fiction
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Television Reception & Effects
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SMS
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Celebrity Humanitarianism
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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People with Disabilities: Advocacy & Empowerment
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Agricultural Radio Programmes
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Audience Segmentation, User Typologies, Personas
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Television Use: Children
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Media Use: Families
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Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Campaigning: Message Design
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Development Communication Campaigns
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Children and Media
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Children & Digital Media
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Girls and Media
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Educational Films & Videos
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Development Organizations: Communication Strategies & Media Representation
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International Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Development Aid Public Relations, Development Public Awareness Raising
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Islamic State (Political-Religious Extremist Organization)
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Iraq War (2003)
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Dealing With the Past
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Extremist & Terrorist Communication Strategies and Media
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Foreign Conflict Reporting, International War Reporting
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Human Rights Protection & Violations: Media Representation & Reporting
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Countering Misinformation & Rumours
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Media Criticism
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Radio Language & Moderation
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One Laptop per Child (ICT Development Programme)
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Behaviour Change Communication: Effects & Effectiveness
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Development Communication: Effects & Effectiveness
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Development Communication Research
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Visual Aids for Development
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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Instagram
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WhatsApp
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AI & Democracy / Democratization
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Generative AI, including ChatGPT et al.
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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Virtual Reality
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Albinism
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Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Perceptions & Attitudes Towards Minorities
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
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Disaster Risk & Preparedness Communication, Disaster Prevention Communication
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Deepfakes (Realistic-Looking Media Content that has been Modified, Generated or Falsified Using AI)
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Disinformation & Misinformation Law & Regulation
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Foreign Disinformation, Foreign Information Manipulation Operations, Foreign Propaganda
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Poverty & Poverty Reduction
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Communication for Sustainable Development
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Environmental Radio Programmes
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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Social Norms
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Evaluation Methods: Using Communication Tools
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Impact Assessment & Outcome Evaluation
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Gender Norms & Roles
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Cancer Prevention, Cancer Communication
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Food, Food Security, Nutrition
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Health Television Programmes
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Malaria Communication
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Suicide Reporting & Media Representation
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WASH Communication (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene)
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Developing Countries Reporting & Representation in Foreign / International Media
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Foreign Correspondents
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Media Assistance: Journalism Education & Training
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Journalistic Quality
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News Reception
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Television News
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Corruption Reporting & Role of Media in Curbing Corruption
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Election Reporting
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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Media Assistance: Governance, Accountability, Combating Corruption
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Media Assistance: Impacts, Effectiveness, Efficiency
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Internews
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Media Assistance Research
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Crowdsourcing
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Role Models & Role Portrayals in the Media
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Information Policies
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Media Literacy: Secondary Education
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Human Rights Violations
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Polarization, Political Polarization
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Populism
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Media / Communication
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Opinion Leaders, Politicians, Decision Makers, Elites
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Radicalisation: Influence of Media
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Project Impact, Project Effects, Project Effectiveness, Project Efficiency
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Radio Aesthetics
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Radio Reception, Radio Psychology, Radio Effects
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Media Effects Research
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Media Psychology, Communication Psychology
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Fear, Anxiety
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Attitudes, Attitude Formation & Change
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Corruption & Combating Corruption
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Computers
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Effective Anti-Corruption Messaging: Lessons from Ukraine
PONARS Eurasia (2018), 8 pp.
"This memo presents evidence based on a survey experiment embedded in a national survey of Ukrainians and a laboratory experiment conducted with Ukrainian university students. The findings indicate that anti-Corruption messaging that emphasizes the success of anti-Corruption campaigns (i.e., a “po
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The fake news game: Actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation
Journal of Risk Research, volume 22, issue 5 (2018), pp. 570-580
"The rapid spread of online misinformation poses an increasing risk to societies worldwide. To help counter this, we developed a ‘fake news game’ in which participants are actively tasked with creating a news article about a strongly politicized issue (the European refugee crisis) using misleadi
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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda
BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.
"This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communitie
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Effect of a Mass Radio Campaign on Family Behaviours and Child Survival in Burkina Faso: A Repeated Cross-Sectional, Cluster-Randomised Trial
Lancet Global Health, volume 6, issue 3: e330-341 (2018), pp. 330-341
"Media campaigns can potentially reach a large audience at relatively low cost but, to our knowledge, no randomised controlled trials have assessed their effect on a health outcome in a low-income country. We aimed to assess the effect of a radio campaign addressing family behaviours on all-cause po
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How Does the Audience Respond to Constructive Journalism? Two Experiments with Multifaceted Results
Journalism Practice, volume 12, issue 6 (2018), pp. 764-780
"The various practices of constructive journalism have the common objective to achieve certain effects on the audience: on the micro-level, the users’ information and emotion, on the meso-level the loyalty towards a media company, and on the macro-level the progress of society. Taking a holistic d
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Storytelling for Social Change: Leveraging Documentary and Comedy for Public Engagement in Global Poverty
Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 678-701
"Narrative is essential for public engagement with global poverty. Stand Up Planet, a documentary about global development, was produced to evaluate the effects of a little-utilized nonfiction comedy narrative. Using a pretest–posttest experimental design, this study examines shifts in U.S. audien
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Can Media Interventions Reduce Gender Gaps in Political Participation After Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Liberia
Washington, DC: World Bank (2017), 16 pp.
"Five weeks prior to the 2011 general election in Liberia, women in randomly selected villages were allocated radios and organized into groups to listen regularly to radio programs on the electoral process broadcast by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The field experiment was designed
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Modeling Collective Action Through Media to Promote Social Change and Positive Intergroup Relations in Violent Conflicts
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, volume 68 (2017), pp. 200-211
"Does social influence exerted through role modeling of collective action impact social change in contexts that are not conducive to collective action, such as long-lasting violent conflicts? We examined this question in two field experiments in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We created t
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How Media Portrayals of Suffering Influence Willingness to Help: The Role of Solvability Frames
Journal of Media Psychology, volume 31 (2017), pp. 92-102
"When we hear stories of distant humanitarian crises, we often feel sympathy for victims, but may stop short of taking action to help. Past research indicates that media portrayals of distant suffering can promote helping behavior by eliciting sympathy, while those that prompt a more rational respon
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Social Media Use During Disasters: How Information Form and Source Influence Intended Behavioral Responses
Communication Research, volume 43, issue 5 (2016), pp. 626-646
"This study provides insights that can inform disaster communication management, policymaking, and theory building through a nationally representative field experiment (N = 2,015 U.S. adults) grounded in media richness theory, information and communication technologies (ICTs) succession theory, and
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How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge
New York: Department of Politics New York University; UNESCO (2016), 28 pp.
"How does media influence beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors? We know surprisingly little about this influence and I argue that two mechanisms account for its impact. Media provides new information that persuades individuals to accept it (individual channel), but also, media informs listeners about w
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Can Mass Media Cause Change? A Randomised Control Trial Finds Out
BBC Media Action (2016)
"Can the mass media cause changes in an audience’s knowledge, attitudes and intention to practise behaviours? At BBC Media Action, we have just successfully conducted a randomised control trial (RCT) to investigate this chain of causality in a prime time health TV drama in Bangladesh." (Introducti
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The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa
World Bank Economic Review, volume 30, issue 2 (2016), pp. 233-267
"We use a “natural experiment” in media markets in Benin to examine the impact of community radio on government responsiveness to citizens. Contrary to prior research on the impact of mass media, in this experiment government agents do not provide greater benefits to citizens whose exposure to c
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Assessing the Impact of a Media-Based Intervention to Prevent Intergroup Violence and Promote Positive Intergroup Relations in Burundi
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, volume 26, issue 3 (2016), pp. 221-235
"The present study (N= 1074) examined the impact of a theory-driven media intervention aimed atviolence prevention and intergroup reconciliation in Burundi. We used a novel methodology utilizing audio-based surveys to assess attitudes related to intergroup conflict and reconciliation among community
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Crowdseeding in Eastern Congo: Using Cell Phones to Collect Conflict Events Data in Real Time
Journal of Conflict Resolution, volume 60, issue 4 (2016), pp. 748-781
"Poor-quality data about conflict events can hinder humanitarian responses and bias academic research. There is increasing recognition of the role that new information technologies can play in producing more reliable data faster. We piloted a novel data-gathering system in the Democratic Republic of
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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?
Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100
"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me
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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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Do Mass Media Interventions Effectively Promote Peace in Contexts of Ongoing Violence? Evidence from Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, volume 21, issue 4 (2015), 17 pp.
"We report on a field experiment and a focus group interview study that examine the impact of a media-based intervention (i.e., radio drama) aimed at promoting peaceful intergroup relations in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In Study 1, we used a priming paradigm to assess the causal
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Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy
Journal of Politics, volume 77, issue 2 (2015), pp. 575-587
"Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media
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Psychophysiological Audience Responses to War Journalism and Peace Journalism
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 3 (2015), pp. 201-217
"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment in which television viewers were exposed to either a war journalism (WJ) or a peace journalism (PJ) version of two news stories, on Australian government policies towards asylum seekers and US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ between Israe
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