Content creators can influence the change we want to see

The Aha! Moment_6

SECTOR

Gender

PROJECT TYPE

Qualitative phenomenological research

Location

India | Kenya | Nigeria

BEHAVIORAL THEME

Social norms | Messenger effects | Informational source | Online diffusion
OVERVIEW

We primarily explored how the scope and scale of social norm interventions could be expanded. We did so by exploring the motivation of creators to develop content for the broader developmental objective of gender equality and partake in shifting social norms. We also looked at how their content might support behavior change, with respect to the content, how it’s framed, the source of the message, and social media practices that shift beliefs about whether others in the community share the same knowledge.

THEMATIC AREAS

We recruited and interviewed 15 content creators from each country who target their content at adolescent girls. We then conducted country-specific and comparative analysis using thematic coding, extracting themes for each country and then broadening the analysis towards comparison between countries.