CfP: African Communication Research –
Special issue on Edutainment

African Communication Research has issued a call for contributions to a special issue on ‘Edutainment’.

Deadline for 200-300 word abstracts is October 2012 – if selected with full manuscripts by 1 February 2013. The special issue will be published in September 2013.

Some suggested topics:

• Entertainment education practices in development communication
• Evaluations of projects using soap opera, pop music and other genres
• Edutainment produced by participating audiences
• Edutainment and community-based organizations
• Edutainment practices and its influences on theory
• Edutainment and its use of ICT, social media and the internet
• New advances in theorising Entertainment Education
• Critical perspectives to Edutainment in Africa

Abstracts and manuscripts should be sent to the guest editor: Eliza Govender, Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, at: govendere1@ukzn.ac.za