A study examined media use patterns among a large, nationally representative sample of children ages 2-18, and which explored how children choose and interact with the whole array of media available to them, including television, movies, computers, music, video games, radio, magazines, books, and newspapers. The goal was to provide a solid base…

In 1997, the Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research (Nordicom), with funding from UNESCO and the government of Sweden, created the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen. The Clearinghouse contributes to and clarifies knowledge on, children, young people, and media violence, based on the…

In a national climate of moving the media research course from the undergraduate to graduate levels, this paper analyzes an innovative, easily replicative, and significantly successful new modality--implemented at an open-enrollment university in the Deep South--that may point the way to prevent termination of this essential course to…

This paper deals with research on the effects of the promotion of reading by means of the mass medium television and refers to a study done on behalf of the Reading Association (Stichting Lezen) and the Foundation for the Collective Propaganda of Dutch Books (Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse boek), two Dutch literary…

Presents a social systems framework for mass communications research and traces the evolution of the model. (TO)

Describes a project to review and evaluate educational films related to the study of French language and culture. (RS)

Article reports on current research at the MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia, on the impact of CATV. (Author)

In 1970 the Institute for the Future made an indepth study on the potential of two-way broadband communications services to the home. Author discusses the findings and describes 30 specific services that interactive television could provide. (Author/HB)

A study done for the National Medical Audio Visual Center on projection systems, covering all aspects which must be properly planned for the most effective results in communications systems. (Author)

Report of a field study using typology and modeling of 1300 families in Wisconsin cities. Findings include: adolescents in consensual homes report about as much attention to media news reports as pluralistic adolescents, but results of the exposure are not equivalent. References. (VW)

Presents and analyzes the most important laws that affected freedom of expression and the press in post-junta Greece. (FL)

Explores the effects on one of President Jimmy Carter's major opinion-shaping efforts on individuals' beliefs about the energy crisis. Concludes that his "Energy Week" may have caused people to take the crisis more seriously, but did not change their attitudes about energy matters. (FL)

Concludes that voters need a frame or a point of reference for determining the campaign relevance of issues and that, therefore, framing is a crucial consideration in the media agenda-setting process. (FL)