Surveyed 449 Blacks of varying ages to examine patterns of television use, amount of television viewing, attachment to the medium, and the differences in Black viewers' motivations for watching television. Fifteen references are cited. (FM)

A study of sex as seen on television and as it relates to adolescent sexual self image demonstrates that a relationship exists between perceptions of television portrayals of sex and initial coital satisfaction. Satisfaction with being a virgin was unrelated to perceptions of television sex. (Author/LS)

Children were questioned in order to discover their principal source of political information as well as the amount and type of television exposure. (LS)

Presents findings of research that studied the influence of television's behavioral models on young Puerto Rican children, including (1) types of models children chose; (2) their perceptions and moral judgments of the appropriateness of certain types of antisocial behavior; and (3) occupational aspirations and their perceptions of Puerto Rican…

A look at an experiment carried out by the University of Pittsburg, dealing with citizen access of commercial television time. (HB)

Classifies humor as hostile, nonhostile, sexual hostile, and sexual nonhostile. During one week of prime time television, males were portrayed as victims of hostile humor more often than were females. The frequency analysis of humorous disparagement does not reveal discrimination against either sex. Hostile humor was found to be more common than…

A discussion of the manner in which blacks are portrayed in television drama and comedy. (HB)

A discussion of the manner in which blacks are portrayed in television drama and comedy. (HB)

The question of how children perceive TV and film violence incidents in justified and unjustified contexts in comparison with already known adult perceptions is the basis for this study. (Author)