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Beyond simple amusement, entertainment content now serves as a tool for social change. "Entertainment-Education" uses popular television series and digital content to foster reflections on inequality and community identity. Meanwhile, the University of Baltimore and other institutions are increasingly studying how these media shifts impact cyber forensics, digital communication, and commerce. Netflix now experiments with "daily" unscripted serials