In this tear-out supplement, PTR collects some recent and useful thinking on the effects of televised violence. The pieces range from three contributions to a USC seminar on violence, to a science-fiction author's review of violence through the ages. (Author)

Reports on the results of a number of tests designed to compare the abilities of readers to look up from their scripts as they read to a TV camera and to attempt to correlate variation in look-up ability with other silent and oral reading parameters." (Author/AA)

Young people's reactions to two prize winning programs of the Prix Jeunesse 1970 were evaluated in seven different countries: Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, United States, and Yugoslavia. This report of the evaluations first overviews the plan of the research, discusses the juries which conferred the prizes, describes the two…

A discussion of two basic questions that instructional television users must ask. These are: 1) Where should the student sit in order to see? and 2) What does the teacher need to do to improve viewing conditions?" (Author/LS)

Reports that both the overall diversity and the "specialized appeal" diversity of television programing were greater in 1948-1954, when there were four national television networks (ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC), than in 1955-56, following the demise of the DuMont Network. (GT)

Expands Foucault's genealogy of the modern subject and morals, particularly as found in "The History of Sexuality." Focuses on the contemporary sex therapist Dr. Ruth, locating the phenomenon of Dr. Ruth within the matrix of power/knowledge and the political technology of the body. (SR)

This chapter explains how the show "The Avengers," a popular British television program with an unusual female lead role, captured the imagination of women viewers in England from 1962 to 1964. After describing the show and then the research project investigating viewers' responses to it, this chapter explores the experience of watching…

How television can distort images and ideas presented on the screen. (HB)

Results of experiments on the effects of editing structure of interviews are presented. (HB)

This article discusses how the pattern of motives that people have for watching television is affected when cable television greatly expands available content. (Author/STS)

Ontario's educational television station, TVO, has developed into one of the most exciting broadcasters in North America. Federally licensed and provincially controlled, the Toronto based system achieves quality programming amidst a maze of 22-channel offerings. (RAO)