Presents results from interviews with kindergarten children about their television program preferences and their understanding of the news, and reactions from the teachers of these children. Also discusses some effects of violence in television programming and comments on how parents and teachers can counter these effects. (BR)

Discusses lifestyles, attitudes and beliefs of Australian families who have chosen not to own a television set. (MH)

A collection of brief essays on ways teachers can use commercial television to stimulate reading, science, math, social studies and language arts curriculum. (SB)

This article discusses a definition of violence, the research on televised violence, and broadcasting's attitude toward violent programs. (DAG)

Describes the use of television in teaching introductory psychology, presents a brief survey of the techniques used, enrollment figures, an evaluation of the experience, the present status of the course, and suggestions for the future. (Author/JR)

Examines the role of adult-oriented campaign news and campaign advertising in the political socialization of children. (Author/GW)

The authors describe how the University of South Carolina School of Nursing uses closed circuit television to deliver instruction to registered nurses who are pursuing an advanced degree in nursing. Topics covered include (1) guidelines, (2) faculty training; (3) student recruitment, (4) admissions, (5) implementation, and (6) evaluation. (CH)

Examines television news coverage of the first days of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Discovers patterns that reinforce terrorist strategy by focusing causation for the crisis on institutional targets and suggesting that military intervention would reestablish control. Suggests that media portrayals of terrorist events support the rhetorical…

Reports on a study using data from 13,395 young people to investigate displacement of book reading by television viewing. Found no general displacement of time from one activity to another. (ARH)

Documents the range and extent of family life configurations in prime-time television over a six-year period (1979-1985). Reveals that prime-time network television tends to reinforce conservative to moderate models of family life, while also presenting a diversity of nonstandard interpretations of family which are framed in the nonthreatening…

Describes "gestalt" coding procedures that concentrate on the meanings conveyed by audio-visual messages rather than on coding individual pictorial elements shown in a news story. Discusses the totality of meaning that results from the interaction of verbal and visual story elements, external settings, and the decoding proclivities of…

Argues that the FCC prefers an unregulated marketplace for children's programing, but that it has not been shown that the marketplace will work for this program type. (FL)

Reviews three major roles identified for the press in the foreign policy process: observer, participant, and catalyst. Claims that these roles circumscribe the structural relationship of media to foreign policy and provide a framework for some general propositions against which the particulars of the Iran case may be interpreted. (JD)