Many young adults are not politically active. Since 1972, their participation and interest levels have declined not only in absolute terms but also relative to other voting-age groups. This paper examines how the Internet can reverse this trend. It focuses on how leading news and political information Web sites affected young adults during the…

While its educational goals were yet to be defined, the aims of the radio in the early 1920s included the social goal of cultural pluralism; the economic goal of profiteering; the military goal of communicating, training, and surveillance; and, the political goal of propaganda and morale building. In the end, like previous technological advances,…

Presents a case study of the presidential election campaign television debates of 1960. (TO)

Suggests that issues prominent in the news during the 1960s did not necessarily deserve the attention at the times they received it. (TO)

Research on housewives indicates that role complement and norm salience predict information preferences better than does a dissonance condition. (RB)

Data on media exposure as related to demographic variables confirms studies suggesting that physical mobility leads to social mobility and urbanization, and that rising literacy further increases media exposure. (RB)

Using modifications of Roper questions, study involving college students finds media use and credibility correlated, which suggests the methodology in Roper questionnaire may distort results.

A detailed guide to the major sources of printed broadcast legal documents. (Author)

This paper attempts to pinpoint some of the problems involved in designing mass-media courses for adults and some of the ways in which research can assist both producers and the users of such courses. (Authors)

Statistics on number of schools that are using brand name programed learning texts and multimedia learning stations. Author believes that the trend in education toward individual learning brought about the use of programed instruction. (AF)

Examines the particular motivations that led to the rapid growth of national consumer advertising from 1910 to 1915. (FL)

Argues that editor William Allen White was striving to set a social and political agenda that would advance business values and bring prosperity to his home state, Kansas. (FL)

Indicates that consumers place little value on advertisements in nationally circulated magazines and on television as sources of information. Television commercials seem to be valued even less than print advertisements. (FL)

Concludes that the "London Times" and the Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the United States government provide both comprehensive and unbiased coverage of events in Rhodesia, while the "New York Times" is less complete and the "Christian Science Monitor" is selective. (FL)