Concludes that television is used in developing nations to maintain or reinforce national values and traditions in modernizing nations. (RB)

A study examined how much of the news being presented by other developed nations' network television news programs involved the United States in comparison to those stories involving other developed and developing nations. It was expected that if the American dominance existed in other developed nations' media, the New World Information Order's…

Describes a study on the use of television in a Canadian community just before and two years after inception of television reception. Discusses implications of the results for further research on television in the developing world. (SA)

Compares minutes of TV coverage of natural disasters outside the U.S. to the number of deaths officially reported in the country affected. Finds that Western European disasters receive most coverage and Asian disasters receive least. (MS)

Reviews network coverage of Latin America, asserting that an orientation toward visually exciting crises without an adequate longitudinal awareness, encourages a lack of attention to social developments, with adverse foreign policy consequences. (MS)

Argues that formative research (research intended to provide practical answers) is an important tool in the production of effective programs for use in instructional television, particularly in developing nations. (JJD)

Investigates the effects of India's first long-running television soap opera that was designed to promote women's status in Indian society. Finds that exposure to the program was positively associated with viewers' involvement with the characters in the program and with viewer's television dependency, but did not make viewers more aware of women's…

A study examined the relationship between amount of television viewing and recognition of stereotypes. Subjects, 60 undergraduate students enrolled in mass media, advertising, and public relations classes at Indiana University, viewed movies produced by United States production companies but set in developing nations. After each movie, students…

Describes the role of research and evaluation in the growth, evolution, and impact of developmental television in India. Eleven references are listed. (Author/LLS)

This paper begins with a review of the literature that addresses the broad concerns of youth and media, with particular focus on children and adolescents, then moves on to explain the purpose of this specific study, i.e., to determine the nature of Nigerian young people's access to/use of television and to the competing media of radio and…

This is the third in a series of bibliographies resulting from two decades of research on the use of television as a technical aid in education and in educational and psychological research. The works listed are all in German and appeared from 1960 through 1970. Four major sections include: (1) general problems, (2) television in schools, (3)…

Offers summaries of studies that investigated many topics, including the following: (1) images of the United States in Jordanian media; (2) television terms, such as "radiovision," that did not last; (3) how newspapers in Alaska cope with staff turnover; (4) newspaper design preferences among students; and (5) the problem of libel for…

Describes a study which investigated why some teachers choose to use, or not to use, educational television broadcasts in their teaching. The study also tested the proposition that low levels of television use by teachers are due to antipathy to new methods in general, or fear of mechanization, or similar reasons. (Author/LLS)

A preliminary study described the first 6 months after the introduction of broadcast television to the Cook Islands, a self-governing group of 15 Polynesian islands in the South Pacific ocean, on Christmas Day, 1989. Data were gathered from field observations and in-depth face-to-face interviews conducted in the Cook Islands during a 2-month…