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Peer reviewedBrown, William J.; Cody, Michael J. – Human Communication Research, 1991
Investigates the effects of India's first long-running television soap opera that was designed to promote women's status in Indian society. Finds that exposure to the program was positively associated with viewers' involvement with the characters in the program and with viewer's television dependency, but did not make viewers more aware of women's…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Females, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPapa, Michael J.; Singhal, Arvind; Law, Sweety; Pant, Saumya; Sood, Suruchi; Rogers, Everett M.; Shefner-Rogers, Corinne L. – Journal of Communication, 2000
Explores processes of social change initiated by an entertainment-education radio soap opera by studying its effects in an observational case study in one rural village in India. Investigates the paradoxes, contradictions, and audience members' struggles in the process of media-stimulated change, a process involving parasocial interaction, peer…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
