Reports on a study which indicates that certain political candidates are better perceived on radio and others on television and suggests that it is possible to determine the most effective medium for creating favorable candidate images. (MH)

Contends that television is diluting the experiential and informational base of American political culture and thereby altering the nature and effectiveness of American democracy. (MH)

Analyzes media effects during the 1972 general election campaign and concludes that agenda-setting is indirectly effected by voters prior dispositions. (MH)

Summarizes the results and recommendations of the Report of the Task Force on Women in Public Broadcasting published by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1975. (MH)

Finds that double presentation of a radio story to children did not result in fewer novel ideas than did a single presentation, thus proving implausible the faulty-memory hypothesis that radio stories elicit more novel responses than television stories because they are less well remembered. Notes that radio stories elicited more novel responses in…

Discusses the importance of Raymond Williams' contribution to the field of communications by examining his work, illustrative of a process of inductive cultural analysis derived from the tradition of close reading of literary texts, then applied over a much wider cultural and social range. (MS)

Investigates the relationship between television dependency and support for Wallace in the 1968 election campaign. (MH)

Presents data indicating a geographic imbalance in network news coverage and possible explanations for this situation. Examines implications of this bias on theoretical and policy levels. (JMF)

Discusses the subjective meaning of television news watching in terms of five factors: surveillance-reassurance, cognitive orientation, dissatisfactions, affective orientation, and diversion. (JMF)

Draws upon overlapping disciplines (the sociology of interaction, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and the pragmatics of philosophy of ordinary language) with a common interest in the intelligibility of the social practices of everyday life, to investigate how it is that television and radio appear as unproblematically and meaningfully…

Offers a clarification of the original uses of the word "stereotype" and argues that the current failure to account for evaluative and historical aspects of stereotypes has diluted the usefulness of the concept for critics and teachers. (MS)

Outlines five types of studies that seem most significant and discusses problems of and proposals for future news media research. (PD)

A study of Eurovision-Intervision news exchange patterns suggests that any global explanation for imbalance will be premature until the news item values in each exchange are understood as clearly as its news item volume. (PD)

Results of interviews with children on their likes and dislikes in television programing. (CH)