This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the mythology underlying television advertising; the ethnicity of television commercials; the impact of television food commercials on young children; comparative media effectiveness in an evangelistic campaign; media policies in 16 Asian countries; media use and preference of the elderly television viewer; the relationship between television viewing, achievement, IQ, and creativity; the transfer of psycholinguistic principles to the study of screen media; adolescent involvement with television characters; the development of radio and television in Denmark; analysis of subscriber reaction to cable television public access programing in New York City; application of cognitive style as a predictor of recall, information salience, and attitudes toward television commercials; discriminatory television advertising; children's impressions of television characters; public radio in Colorado; the influence of television on children's conceptions about occupations, on their reading readiness and potential literacy, and on their aggressive behavior and socialization; broadcast sales training in higher education; and the history and development of cable television in Baltimore County, Maryland. (MKM)