Comics help to shape, reflect, reinforce, and revise the beliefs and assumptions people have about themselves and others. This document addresses three issues related to the comics: (1) images of women in the comics by both male and female 20th century cartoonists; (2) conflicting and fragmented images of women in the comics; and (3) differences…

All adult biographies reviewed in "Booklist" in 1960 through 1964 and 1987 through 1989 were examined to see if the gender, racial or ethnic background, geographic setting, and occupation of the subjects changed over time. A total of 879 reviews from the 1960s and 1,103 reviews from the 1980s were examined. The analysis shows that subjects of…

There appears to be an urgency, influenced by demographic changes, to learn more about racially/ethnically diverse populations, and the counseling and psychology fields are acknowledging the need to respond to demographic changes. This study was conducted to assess the status of research as regards racially/ethnically diverse populations in the…

This paper addresses the microsemantic and macrothematic analyses of science and popular science texts from the fields of economics, medicine, and technology used in the "LSP [Languages for Specific Purposes] Texts in the 20th Century" project. Results show that the frequency of the relations is different within various parts of the…

A study examined the "oral" vocabulary used by newspapers over a 100-year period. Approximately 8,000 sentences containing about 200,000 words were chosen at random from the front pages of "The New York Times" and "The Los Angeles Times" for the period 1890-1989. Specific vocabularies were constructed for…

A study examined the distinctive communication phenomena which occur on computer bulletin boards, focusing on the Usenet bulletin board system which is estimated to have over half a million readers worldwide. Most universities and research organizations, all over the world, are capable of exchanging information over computer networks through the…

To assess the quality of local news programs, a News Quality Index was develped for a study that consisted of three parts: a content analysis of local television news, an audience analysis of the kinds of news stories that are most important, and an outside the market viewer analysis of the way in which anchors for news, sports, and weather are…

A study was conducted to investigate the extent to which local television stations exhibited diversity in newscast content within three midwest broadcast markets. A second objective was to describe the nature of the news content characteristic of local news stories that were broadcast by only one station within a market (or unique news stories). A…

The purpose of this study was to quantitatively analyze the Latin American content of contemporary world geography textbooks published for United States secondary schools. A preliminary review of the literature indicated that Latin America was generally omitted from world geography texts, Central America was given minimal attention, and…

Reviews the literature criticizing school textbooks for sexism and suggests new series deleting sexist stereotypes should be developed. (RB)

This paper described the Managerial Style Questionnaire (MSQ) and demonstrated its usefulness for measuring Management By Objectives (MBO). (Author/RK)

Text-linguistic studies, e.g. the use of French determinants as compared with German, are not fruitful in teaching foreign language as such, though they may be of relevance in other grammatical studies, and particularly in teaching literature. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Shows that the cultural content of Philippine print-media advertising does not reflect Philippine culture, but instead appears to reflect Western culture. (RB)

Examines the changes in policy made by Catholic newspapers in America since 1822. (RB)