This discussion of agenda setting reviews early theories of mass communication and traces the beginnings of agenda setting theory to the 1968 United States presidential campaign, during which researchers found a high correlation between what the media were saying about issues and what the people thought were important issues. The results of more…

A study was conducted to determine the effect on perceived meaning of the way a photograph is reproduced and to discover whether there would be an interaction between the complexity of photographic subject matter and the complexity of reproduction method. Each of 160 college students in a sophomore-level American history course was given a packet…

A study was conducted for the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island to analyze coverage of the accident by ten news organizations: two wire services, three commercial television networks, and five daily newspapers. Copies of all stories and transcripts of news programs during the first week of the accident were examined from…

THE REPORT PROVIDES DETAILED TECHNICAL GUIDANCE IN MAKING DESIGN DECISIONS. IT IS DIRECTED TO PERSONNEL CONCERNED WITH THE DETAILS OF DESIGN SUCH AS ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, SUPPLIERS, AND MEDIA SPECIALISTS. THE DATA OFFER GUIDANCE IN THE PROGRAMING AND PLANNING OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND INFORMATION ON (1) ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND FURNISHINGS,…

THE NEED AND FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A NUMBER OF "REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL MEDIA RESEARCH CENTERS WITH A PROGRAMMATIC ORIENTATION" WERE INVESTIGATED. A PLANNING GROUP WAS ESTABLISHED TO SERVE AS A STEERING COMMITTEE. CONFERENCES IN WHICH GROUPS IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN WIDELY DISTRIBUTED REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY PARTICIPATED WERE HELD…

STEPHENS COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER WAS USED AS A MODEL FOR THE PLANNING OF LEARNING CENTERS UTILIZING THE MASS MEDIA AND NEW EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY. IN THIS SAMPLE, THE PLANNING OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SYSTEMS FOR NEW FACILITIES WAS SEEN AS NECESSARILY AND APPROPRIATELY RELATED TO THE CHARACTERISTICS, PURPOSES, AND OBJECTIVES OF AN INSTITUTION.…

This review identified over 140 media/attitude studies and categorized them according to the type of media and type of attitude investigated. This categorization made it possible to determine if identifiable relationships existed between instructional media and attitudes of viewers. The literature on experiments dealing with three types of…

Standard legal methods, statutory developments, case law, and attorney generals' opinions were analyzed in a study of the nine states that received the lowest rankings in J. B. Adams's 1974 investigation of open meeting laws across the United States. In addition, statutory and judicial open meeting activity in the remaining 41 states was surveyed…

This selected, annotated bibliography for the Audio-Visual Media Research Group of the Open University includes sections on (1) general bibliographies and literature reviews, (2) experimental studies, (3) BBC audience research reports, (4) miscellaneous items, (5) radio in less developed countries, and (6) Audio-Visual Media Research Group…

The purpose of this study was to stimulate scholarly investigation of a conflict systems model for news media and the interaction of sources in the wake of an expose. A search of the literature led to nine tentative axioms that focus attention on systemic conflict of media and sources related to cover-ups and suggested additional theory…

This 2-part report summarizes the Council of Europe's 1977 colloquy on cable television, local radio, and video, and presents the chairman's report on media and public usefulness. Problem areas addressed in the section on public service applications of the media include ensuring public access to the media, financing local radio and television,…

As counterexamples to J. E. Grunig and J. B. Disbrow's probabilistic theory of communication behavior, which assumes that receivers have almost total control over communication behavior and that the only control possible for communicators is to limit communications to those publics most likely to be communicating with them, this paper cites…

This paper reviews press coverage of events surrounding the 1977 governmental decision to ban fluorocarbons in spray cans in the United States. The research reported focused on the years 1972 to 1978 and involved a count of the number of items published in selected newspapers and magazines or aired on the three major networks' evening news…

An examination of the coverage of Latin America during 1977 by "Newsweek,""Time," and "U.S. News and World Report" was undertaken to compare the number of stories and the amount of space devoted to that region with that afforded other areas of the world. The results showed that of the major areas of the world, only…

The definition of film attributes must bridge the gap between technical descriptions of the attributes (e.g., the arrangement of the visual material) and expected psychological effects of the attributes. Interaction effects between learner traits, learning objectives, and a film's attributes should be expected, since each attribute contributes to…