CfP: Entertainment-Education and Social Change

The use of the entertainment-education (E-E) communication strategy (also known as “enter-educate” or “edutainment”) to address social and development topics has risen sharply in recent decades. With the growing number of entertainment-education (E-E) interventions worldwide, and the extensive evaluation research on their impacts, the time is ripe to explore in-depth the theory, method, and practice of entertainment-education.

The March 2013 (27:1) issue of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies will be devoted to the scholarly investigations of the entertainment-education communication strategy. This theme issue will be edited by Arvind Singhal, Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston.

Completed papers are due by 27 February 2012. Please e-mail completed papers directly to Arvind Singhal at: asinghal@utep.edu. Guidelines for authors as well as editorial procedures are available on this publisher’s page.

Critical Arts is a non-profit project owned and produced by an independent group of academics who comprise its editors, associate editors, editorial consultants and regional organisers. The journal is currently located in the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies, University of Natal, Durban.