Advocacy Panel: Youth and the Media

Objective: To assess media's impact on young people andpresent challenges for future programming.

Ellen Wartell (left), Dean, College of Communication,University of Texas; Lilian Fernandez, Senior Vice President and GeneralCounsel, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (middle); and David W. Kleeman,Executive Director, American Center for Children's Television

Discussions following the Youth and the Media panel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perspectives on Collaboration

Objective: To address the challenges and benefits of collaborationbetween institutional stakeholders in health inverventions, including healthcommunicators, media industires, commercial advertisers, and governmentalagencies, among others. Research is cited to demonstrate the advantagesof working collaboratively on health communication interventions. The authorswill discuss effective ways to take advantage of collaboration to make programsmore successful and sustainable.

Participants included:

  • Martine Bouman, Department of Communication and Innovation Studies, Wagenigen Agricultural University: "Health Communication and Television Entertainment: Collaboration Aspects"
  • Deborah Glick, Ph. D., School of Public Health, UCLA:"Health Education Goes to Hollywood: Working with Prime Time and Daytime Entertainment for Immunization"
  • Garth Japhet, MD:"Edutainment: Success Through Partnerships"

Tune in Tomorrow: Television Soap Operas

Objective: To explain the use of TV soap operas in socialeducation.

 

Rafael Obregon, College of Communication,Pennsylvania State University: "Cafe with Scent of a Woman: Its UnintendedEffects and Its Enter-Educational Implications"

 

Peter Chen, Ph.D., UNICEF: "Use of TelevisionSoap Operas for Social Change in Nepal"

A Conversation on Theory and Practice

Objective: To explore how entertainment-education televisionsoap operas are formulated, designed, and produced.

Participants included:

  • Miguel Sabido, Senior Vice President, TELEVISA
  • Heriberto Lopez Romo, Head, Research Department, TELEVISA
  • Everett Rogers, Ph.D., School of Communication and Journalism, University of New Mexico
  • Arvind Singhal, Ph.D., School of Interpersonal Communication, Ohio University

 

Exhibition from John Hopkins University

Center for Communication Programs-Population CommunicationServices-Population Informationa Program

Special Student Panel

Participants included:

  • Rob Ainsle, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, and Ohio University Communication and Devlopment Studies Alumnus
  • Antje Ilse Becker, consultant, Center for Native American and Alaskan Affairs, and Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health Alumna
  • Scott Damon, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and Ohio University Communication and Development Studies alumnus
  • Marcie Nielson-McPherson, doctoral student, John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health

Workshop: Internet As a Tool to Guide Entertainment-EducationResearch

 

Dr. Rota demonstrates the usage of the internet.

 

Tom Mollison, Communication & DevelopmentStudies, assisted with the workshop.

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