For English-speaking researchers, French doctoral dissertations can represent a "terra incognita." For this reason, a retrospective bibliometric study of French dissertations in press and media studies offers a useful profile of available research to researchers concentrating in studies of the press and other media. The present study…

A survey of 80 city and regional magazines was undertaken to examine articles of media criticism. Of those, 78.5% responded. A total of 420 articles were received and were divided according to subject and geographical distribution. A critical analysis of representative articles determined that they represented significant criticism as defined in…

Reviews mass communications researchers' findings that are applicable to press control and presents a theoretical model based on these findings. (KS)

Refutes the thesis that relates various types of mass media, especially the newspaper, to rates of aggression, violence, and deviance by comparing crime statistics during strike and nonstrike periods.

Describes how the media survive on the Commonwealth Caribbean Islands without interference from outside ownership and control. (RB)

The magazine industry has thus far escaped the attention and regulation that both the newspaper and broadcast industries have received. The obvious defense of the magazine industry is the number and diversity of the separate publications of which it is composed. However, recent studies indicate that concentration of magazine ownership is…

Refers to critical issues marking the debate about political violence and the mass media in a democracy and in South Africa. Attempts to situate the political violence and mass media inquiry within recent calls for consensus journalism in South Africa. Suggests that the mass media needs to promote rational discourse in South Africa. (SKC)

Reviews citation networks and discovers that the six major areas of activity in mass communication research are (1) television and politics, (2) sociological studies of journalists, (3) agenda setting, (4) the effects of mass communication, (5) the credibility of various news media, and (6) the characteristics of users and nonusers of mass media.…

Traces the evolution of the actual malice standard from a l884 Kansas court decision to the l964 decision in "'New York Times' v. Sullivan." (FL)

Finds that the mass media, especially newspapers have an immediate, direct effect on farmers' behavior only when the content is tailored to fit the farmers' existing situation. (RB)

Two Canadian studies show large losses in all media in immediate, unaided recall for simulated news presentations with the broadcast media showing greater loss than the print media. (RB)