Describes a study of children's use of radio over the grade school years. Documents patterns of radio use and lists several categories of reasons offered by children for their use of the radio. (MS)

Examines the determinants and consequences of the Korean "Family Reunion Program" aired in June 1983. Compares the medium and audience involved to current definitions of media events. (MS)

States that the system of local political journalism has become fragile and that steps should be taken to remediate the situation, such as developing tax incentives that invite television news, distributed in nonbroadcast form, to enter the arena of local political information. (DF)

A survey of over 1,300 newspapers shows major changes between 1979 and 1983 in content and layout. Several trends run counter to reader interests: (1) increasing the ratio of features to hard news, (2) reducing the balance of national/world news to local news, and (3) reducing the number of columns on specialized interests. (PD)

Describes a survey of journalism and mass communications programs indicating an increase in media ethics courses. (HTH)

Summarizes the research evidence indicating that it is not the media that influence performance, but the instructional strategies used with them, considers some administrative advantages of using different media, and describes the features of training programs that do influence performance. (MBR)

A survey of Detroit daily newspapers shows that there has been dramatic improvement in the reporting of methodological information on polls. (FL)

Examined adolescent use of popular music, identifying types of music preferences. Concluded that a relationship exists between amount of peer orientation and type of music preferences and that the motivations for listening were more physical and emotional than cerebral (that is, listening to lyrics). (PD)

Examines forms of media in today's electronic environment including television, microcomputers, video games, and music television, and considers these media forms and their effects on cognitive processing. Implications for teachers and instructional designers in achieving curricular balance between print and electronic media are discussed. (MBR)

Examines the impact of format (advertisement vs. news articles and releases) and source (commercial vs. noncommercial groups) on reactions to advocacy messages. (PD)

Identifies four groups of readers (heavy, sporadic, scanner, and apathetic) and classifies them on the basis of individual, environmental, and stimulus factors. Emphasizes the importance of environmental factors (time, peer influence, parental reading habits, etc.) in explaining differences in adolescent newspaper readership. (PD)

Reports findings of a study suggesting that there is some truth in the claim that the news Third World countries receive from the American wire services is biased toward the West. Reports, however, that there is more Asian news on the Asia wire services of the American agencies than news of any other region. (FL)

Guidelines for selecting and using pictures to guide instructional decisions and behaviors are based on three areas of research: role of pictures and how they improve learning, how context or environment in which pictures operate can influence usefulness, and how physical and perceptual characteristics of pictures affect their function. (MBR)

Explores Guyana's efforts to articulate and implement a national information order that would redress past information imbalances. (FL)

Uses an Israeli incident to illustrate the value of exchange theory in understanding the relationship between protest group leaders and reporters. (FL)