Discerns issues of the 1980 presidential primary campaigns through content analysis of issues presented in televised political spot advertisements created for nine presidential primary candidates. Results indicate Democrats were most concerned with the economy, energy, foreign policy, and national security, while Republicans focused on federalism…

Analyzes the environmental content of a number of general and specialized magazines for the period 1966-1975. (FL)

Traces the career of Mrs. Martha Louise Rayne, writer and founder of a school of journalism for women in 1886. (FL)

Seeks to discover the uniqueness of the American newspaper as a business in the nineteenth century and to explain how this uniqueness helped shape the editorial values of editors and proprietors. (FL)

Parents of preschool, first- and fourth-grade children were surveyed regarding media presentations that caused fear in their children. Results demonstrate that theories of cognitive development may provide an explanatory and predictive framework for understanding children's fears. (PD)

A survey of Swedish newspaper editors reveals that there is still a willingness to criticize the government in the papers, even though they are supported by subsidies. Shows also that the subsidies have mostly benefited the low circulation papers and have encouraged waste. (FL)

Explores the rock music phenomenon as an indicator of the concerns, anxieties, and motives of the youth culture of the 1960s. (MH)

Presents evidence to support contentions that the media influences public acceptance of traditional sex-role and racial stereotypes. (MH)

A laboratory study analyzed differences in media violence when consequences of that violence to the victim are shown and not shown. (Author)

This article reports the results of a study conducted to determine the levels of information about technical and vocational education held by persons in the Central Florida Community College service area. The study indicates that those who could profit most from vocational and/or technical education programs know little about them. Results show…

Hong Kong's Department of Information Services has been producing and systematically airing public service announcements (known as announcements in the public interest, or APIs) on a variety of selected themes such as cleaning up Hong Kong, road safety, crime, drugs, and health issues for over 20 years. The television announcements are shown every…

This booklet is intended to help decrease the barriers of prejudice toward people who have mental illnesses. It serves as an educational tool to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness and to help develop anti-stigma or anti-discrimination programs. Increasingly, the media is doing a better job of breaking down the stereotypes…

This report was prepared at the request of the Kaiser Family Foundation to examine the methodological options for investigating the effects of sexual content in the media on children and adolescents. To discuss the issues and prepare the report, a forum of 20 scholars with expertise in sexuality, sexual development, media analysis, and media…