This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 55 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the prime time access rule; (2) media education; (3) magazine and children's advertising; (4) Irish national and Third World cinema; (5) international radio broadcasting; (6) telecommunications; (7) educational television production; (8) agenda setting; (9) viewing patterns; (10) soap operas and daytime television; (11) career goals in broadcasting; (12) Canadian broadcast education; (13) television drama; (14) role modeling on television; (15) analyses of media in Great Britain, Japan, Peru, Venezuela, and the Arab world; (16) radio marketing; (17) newscaster speech; (18) cable television; (19) educational television; and (20) semiological criticsm of television. (AEA)