A 1977 survey of reporters represented by The Newspaper Guild and publishers holding contracts with the Guild suggested that publishers are less concerned than their employees with ensuring privilege protection and that they are reluctant to incorporate privilege in contracts. (GT)

Secondary analyses of data from surveys conducted in Peru and Ecuador suggest that there is a relationship between media use and education in squatter settlements, but that there is a less definite tie between media use and political activism. (GT)

The two experiments described investigated the effects of pictures on the recall of prose passages from newspapers by children. Both single pictures expressing the main idea and groups of pictures illustrating each sentence helped fourth graders recall content. (Author/BK)

An argument for increased attention to visual literacy, both as a research topic and in the classroom. (RL)

Describes the role of media in small liberal arts colleges in terms of AV staff, current goals and organization structure, academic support services, problems, role of the AV center, facilities, and hardware. Data were gathered from 38 colleges in a national survey. (CMV)

Stresses the need to base decisions about media design and selection on the compatibility of media with the content to be presented, and with the learners. Application of these factors in the design of mediated instruction and the selection of materials are considered. (Author/CMV)

Discusses the impact of television on Cree Indians within the context of their culture. Traditional conceptions about communication cause the Cree to be susceptible to TV, take it literally, idolize the superhero characters, read special messages into it concerning behavior requirements, and to be concerned about its potential harm to children.…

Describes an experiment using videotaped programing as an alternative to satellite communication for television broadcasting in an isolated Alaskan village. Discusses the impact of television generally and local control in particular on the community. (JMF)

Concludes that, although both Blacks and Mexican Americans were generally negative in their evaluations of media portrayals of their ethnic groups, Blacks were more critical than Mexican Americans. (GT)

Lists and annotates more than 180 articles on mass communication, grouped according to topic. Topics include audience and communicator analysis, broadcasting, courts and law, journalism education, history and biography, management, and visual communications. (GT)

Discusses cognitive style (the degree to which perception is influenced by environmental variables) and cognitive control (which focuses on the regulation of perception by the ego). Concepts addressed include field dependence-independence, field articulation, conceptual style, cognitive tempo, intrusive information, focal attention, and…

Provides a comprehensive discussion on the Stichting Film en Wetenschap, SFW (Foundation for Film and Science), in Utrecht. Various aspects of the use of audio-visual aids in university teaching are looked at in detail. (Editor/RK)

Discussion of electronic news delivery systems and the automatic generation of electronic editions focuses on the association of related items of different media type, specifically photos and stories. The goal is to be able to determine to what degree any two news items refer to the same news event. (Author/LRW)

Examines the impact of background media on Dutch students' performance and time spent on paper-and-pencil and memorization homework assignments. Notes that doing homework combined with watching a soap opera interfered with students' performance on both types of assignments. Indicates that music in the background left homework performance…

This exploratory study observed seven parent-child dyads reading two online storybooks with branching stories incorporating choice points at which readers choose the path the story would follow. Results indicated that parents and child engaged in many of the same behaviors observed for traditional storybooks and that utterances involved similar…