Encoded Exposure and Social Norms in Entertainment-Education

Entertainment-education is an effective health communication strategy that combines or embeds educational messages into entertainment programs to bring about social and behavior change. For years, scholars have considered how entertainment-education works. Some contemporary theories posit that enter...

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Published in:Journal of health communication 2017-01, Vol.22 (1), p.66-74
Main Authors: Riley, Amy Henderson, Sood, Suruchi, Mazumdar, Paramita Dasgupta, Choudary, Narendra Nath, Malhotra, Alka, Sahba, Naysan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior change
Communication
Communication strategies
Consumer health information
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education
Educational programs
Entertainment
Female
Health Communication - methods
Health education
Health Education - methods
Health information
Health promotion
Health technology assessment
Humans
India
Norms
Social Norms
Surveys and Questionnaires
Television - utilization
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Summary:Entertainment-education is an effective health communication strategy that combines or embeds educational messages into entertainment programs to bring about social and behavior change. For years, scholars have considered how entertainment-education works. Some contemporary theories posit that entertainment-education does not engender behavior change directly but does so through mediating variables. This study adds to the literature on this topic by exploring the direct relationship between exposure and social norms instead of their relationship through behavior as a mediator. Novel to this study is the use of encoded exposure, a continuous and recognition-based measure of exposure that includes ever watching, recall, involvement, and dose in its operationalization. Using cross-sectional data from Kyunki ... Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai, an entertainment-education program in India, this exploratory analysis indicates a positive and significant relationship between encoded exposure and social norms. How can this finding be applied to future programs? Questions remain, and replication is needed, but if it is not essential to go through behavior in order to change social norms, then implications emerge for the theory and practice of entertainment-education.
ISSN:1081-0730
1087-0415
DOI:10.1080/10810730.2016.1250843