Asserts that music videos, rooted in mass marketing culture, are reshaping the language of advertising, affecting the flow of information. Raises question about the society that creates and receives music videos. (MS)

Describes the development of land- and sea-based "pirate" broadcasters, and the responses elicited from British legislators and from broadcasters. Raises the possibility that the "pirates" service a need unmet by national systems. (MS)

Analyzed episodes of "All My Children" and "General Hospital," as reported in the 1980 issues of "Soap Opera Digest." Found that moral violations tended to be resolved consistently with traditional moral standards. Suggests that criticisms of soap operas' effects on morals may not be totally warranted. (PD)

Examines trends in popular music by analyzing the number one recordings from 1940 to 1977 in terms of the relationships among four variables: manufacturer (market concentration), song type (musical genre), artist type (performance mode), and lyric content (vocal message). (JMF)

Asserts that Leo Lowenthal's contributions to a social theory of popular culture speak to contemporary concerns by legitimizing the role of historical explanations and expanding the humanistic concerns to include popular literature in a critique of the social, political, and technological conditions of society. (PRA)

Describes a study measuring the amount and kind of violence and sex presented in prime time music videos during a seven-week period. Compares sex and violence on music television to known data on conventional TV. (MS)

Discusses different cultural and mass media, types of ownership, and organizational goals and strategies. Suggests that the "profit or perish" motive in the book publishing industry and the rise of communications conglomerates have not necessarily diminished the vitality or number of ideas in the marketplace. (PD)

Assesses the impact of new wave music on a major component of the U.S. record-buying public--college students. Concludes that several obstacles (mood, history, confusion, life-style, social function, emotional discomfort, and frivolity) stand in the way of new wave music as a major cultural force. (PD)

Examines the portrayal of innovation and innovators in movies. Relates the treatment of innovation to the genres and eras of the films and the motives of the innovators. (JMF)

Examines the content of daytime serial dramas to determine how the narrative structure promotes a sense of involvement in viewers. Competing plot lines, the lack of a concrete sense of resolution, the pattern of episodes, and the audience's awareness of information kept secret from characters all contribute to audience involvement. (JMF)

Argues that the recording of music is both an act of social control and of aesthetics. Suggests that the remixing of previously recorded music to create a new recording is itself a form of artistic expression. Concludes that the possibility of remixing creates unending possibilities for artistic collaboration. (SG)

Uses in-depth interviews with girls who own American Girl dolls and their mothers. Links representations, consumption, and identity, examining how girls create identity through consumption of American Girl texts and products. Considers how girls integrate Pleasant Company's products into their everyday lives and their construction of an American…

Contrasts the development of daytime serial dramas on television with prime time series in terms of production costs, content, and format. (JMF)

Argues that, contrary to what many proponents believe, the recommendations of the MacBride Report would also help stop the rapidly deteriorating military, diplomatic, and economic situation of the Anglo American countries from which the most important international communication flow originates. (PD)

Analyzes 13 daytime serial dramas broadcast during 1977 for the occurrence and distribution of health-related conditions and resultant deaths, according to age and sex. (JMF)