Investigates content composition, quality, and origin of two Yugoslav TV channels reflecting current media make-up in the region (remaining domination of state television and proliferation of commercial TV). Corroborates some assumed directions of new electronic media: focus on entertainment; lack of news and information programming; and high…

Analyzes the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Theorizes the relationship between collective visions of the future and the identity politics of the present. Argues that "The Next Generation" invites audiences to participate in a shared sense of the future that constrains human agency and (re)produces the…

Investigates videocassette recorder (VCR) use in Hong Kong, finding that the VCR does not compete with cinema-going and television viewing, but complements these activities. Confirms research in Western nations regarding VCR use. (SR)

Finds that, among college students, (1) both related and unrelated cuts resulted in cardiac orienting responses; (2) processing unrelated cuts required more capacity than processing related cuts; and (3) memory was better for information presented after related cuts, with this effect greater for visual memory than for audio memory. (SR)

Finds that black representation in television ads exceeded the percentage population distribution of blacks in 1991; lower valued products had higher black model-product interaction than higher valued products; and "black-oriented" shows had a greater percentage of all black ads, ads with blacks in major roles, and ads depicting blacks in skilled…

Finds that undergraduate viewers' schemata can categorize news reenactments as real despite accompanying advisories to the contrary. Finds that visual advisories are more effective than auditory advisories in helping viewers remember reenactments as reenactments, and suggests using distinctive video to draw attention to simulation advisories. (SR)

Finds that, when a censorship disclaimer on a television news story is assessed for its narrative meaning, capacity is increased, and more thought elaboration about the news story takes place. Suggests that disclaimers may be an effective device in messages that are not complex or cognitively demanding but that their effects may be neutralized by…

Contributes to scholarship on broadcast deregulation and news-source diversity, tracing sourcing patterns on prime-time news across a 12-year period encompassing the deregulation of broadcasting in New Zealand. Finds that increasing commercialism resulted in shorter sound bites; reduced use of official cited sources; and a greater use of nonelite…

Investigates the relationship between undergraduate students' communication tendencies for sending and receiving verbally aggressive messages with their opinions and feelings about a verbally aggressive television show. Shows that verbally aggressive subjects tended to watch more television weekly, did not report being hurt by receiving verbally…

The literature of film and literature of television are, to a large extent, two separate entities. The major film theorists have not had much to say about television, and television has inspired few theorists of its own--few, that is, whose major concern, like the film theorists', is aesthetics. One of the earliest forms of commentary on…

Provides no support for the hypothesis that television is the crucial communication channel in inducing split ticket voting. (RB)

A case study of the "Eagleton Affair" disputes the notion that the three major networks are uniform in their news coverage and editorial commentary. (RB)

Nine independent groups of students totaling 863 subjects made a metric judgment of 13 concepts (TV programs) in a study to assess the selection of the best criterion pair in a metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) task. Using the GALILEO metric MDS program, judgments were scaled and plotted in three-dimensional space. The three hypotheses were…

Canadian adults see less humor and realism in Archie Bunker of "All in the Family" than does United States sample. (RB)