Arguing that the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision abolishing the Fairness Doctrine rested on unquestionable and untestable ideological assumptions, this paper asserts that the FCC has pursued broadcast deregulation with inadequate consideration of either social scientists' knowledge about the news media and their audiences, and…

Focusing on variables controlled by the newspaper but with emphasis on basic priorities for success rather than specific changes within a department, a study examined intracity battles between newspapers in several cities. A saturation sample of 58 newspapers that competed in various cities with no joint operating agreement or joint ownership was…

In direct replication of a previous study investigating newspaper readership and uses-and-gratifications statements, this study interviewed a parallel random sample from the same market as the initial study using the same questions. A telephone survey of 557 adults was conducted by trained undergraduates enrolled in an advanced research methods…

Presents a study designed to assess the effects of children's viewing filmed violence and their subsequent readiness to report an argument and fight between two younger children to an authority figure. (ST)

While media use, intelligence, and social interaction seem to be related, research suggests that media play different roles with regard to the interaction of children with different IQs. (RB)

The influence of the German picture magazines and their editors and photographers on publisher Henry Luce and his staff during the early years of "Life" magazine has been overlooked. However, there is strong evidence in the Time, Incorporated, archive files indicating that the year Kurt Korff spent as a consultant to the company's newly…

Information in this directory of mass communication researchers in Denmark, Norway, and Finland is taken from questions which were distributed in the fall of 1977 and completed by the researchers themselves. Graduate students who are either working on research grants or have published academic papers on research in the field are included. Separate…

"The Ladies' Home Journal" and its founder Cyrus H. K. Curtis are often praised for establishing significant and lasting standards of reputable advertising in the United States. These standards include banning the profitable but offensive advertising of patent medicines, vouching for the integrity of advertising contained in the…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY IDENTIFIES A BASIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERSON DESIRING TO INTERPRET, CONDUCT, OR DIRECT RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL MEDIA. (MS)

A SURVEY OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA RESEARCH IN 19 LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES WAS CONDUCTED AND ASSESSED. ITS PURPOSE WAS TO IDENTIFY, REPORT, AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ON THOSE AGENCIES AND PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN SUCH RESEARCH. A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS DETERMINED WHICH AGENCIES WERE CONDUCTING OR HAD ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL MEDIA RESEARCH. A QUESTIONNAIRE…

A SERIES OF STUDIES WAS UNDERTAKEN, DIRECTED TOWARD EXPLORATIONS OF INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG MEDIA, PROCESSES (INSTRUCTIONAL PREREQUISITES), CONTENT AND APTITUDE VARIABLES, AND ACHIEVEMENTS. EMPHASIS THROUGHOUT WAS ON (1) THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN AND (2) PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE TO A PRACTICAL TEACHING SITUATION. "THE…

THE REPORT, THE SECOND OF A SERIES (ACCESSION NUMBERS ED 003 239 THROUGH ED 003 241), INCLUDES SEVEN APPENDIXES TO AN EARLIER STUDY. THE APPENDIXES ARE TITLED, (1) PROBLEMS OF MEANING AND REFERENCE IN BLOOM'S TAXONOMY, (2) SCALE FOR APPRAISING A MODEL, (3) EXPLORATION OF INTERACTIONS AMONG INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT AND APTITUDE VARIABLES, (4) AN…

THE REPORTS UNDER ACCESSION NUMBERS ED 003 239 AND ED 003 240 ARE SUPPLEMENTED BY THIS DOCUMENT. THREE APPENDIXES ARE INCLUDED. THE FIRST SHOWS INTERCORRELATIONS AND FACTOR LOADINGS FOR 27 MEASURES USED IN A STUDY OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. THE SECOND PROVIDES THREE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTIONAL BOOKLETS IN THE FIELD OF STATISTICS FOR GRADUATE COLLEGE STUDENTS…