Magazines are popular information sources for teens and already may have played a significant role in educating teenagers about AIDS. Many AIDS activists and health educators believed coverage of Magic Johnson's November 1991 announcement that he had contracted AIDS through heterosexual sex might help to convince teenagers about their AIDS risk. A…

Noting that little research has addressed the question of violence in commercials directed to children, a study examined commercials aired during the 21 top-rated children's cartoons during one broadcast week in late spring 1993. Commercials were analyzed for violent content, gender of primary actors and recipients of violent action, primary…

Mental models or implicit theories held by adults about everyday problem solving were studied. Research questions were posed to 12 male and 12 female adults, aged 25 to 60 years, from a wide range of educational and occupational orientations. Subjects were interviewed in pairs. Verbal Protocol Analysis was used to analyze the data from two…

This article presents methods and results from diachronic studies of articles carried out within the project "LSP Texts in the 20th Century," a study of genre-bound linguistic change and variation in science and popular science in the fields of economics, medicine, and technology. The interrelationship between text and context is central for the…

Newspaper layout and design studies ignore politics, and most studies of newspaper politics ignore visual design. News layout is generally thought to be a set of neutral, efficient practices. This study suggests that the political position of Peruvian newspapers parallels their visual presentation of terrorism. The liberal "La Republica"…

To determine whether the suggested poetry teaching procedures found in the teacher manuals of sixth-grade basal readers reflect the pedagogical procedures suggested by expert opinion and research, an indepth analysis was made of a total of 106 poetry lessons in eight teacher manuals. The poetry lessons were analyzed for the purposes of determining…

One of the important roles of the community psychologist is that of researcher. To determine how well that role is being fulfilled, and to what extent community psychology research conforms to accepted standards of social scientific endeavor, 621 articles published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) and the Journal of Community…

The article examines the Government Accounting Office report that reviewed the operation of State vocational education programs. The author also responds to some of the negative elements within the report. (MW)

Recent history textbooks have conspicuously removed references to religion and religious publications, providing a distorted view of American and world history. One such neglected publication, the Boston "Recorder," was founded by Nathaniel Willis in 1816. A Christian newspaper, it was based on three principles: (1) to show theological…

A study was conducted to determine what, if any, effect President Jimmy Carter's human rights policy had on American newspaper coverage of Central and South America. The "New York Times,""Washington Post,""Christian Science Monitor," and "Los Angeles Times" during the years of 1975, 1977, 1978, and 1982…

Despite the growth in number of online bibliographic databases available to assist scholars seeking information in the humanities, it remains a matter of concern to librarians and information professionals that these research tools are not as widely used as they might be. This report surveys a selected group of online databases (i.e.,…

A study focused on the results of the gatekeeping process which determined the nature and quantity of images of the Vietnam War that the American public saw in "Life Magazine" before and after the Tet offensive of January 1968. The study examined the content of these photographs and looked for significant changes. In addition, the study…

This manual resulted from the work of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) and the International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm) in Vienna in developing methodologies for the work of multilingual organizations. Three papers are included in the document: "A Method for Controlled Concept…

Noting that the choice of people for the covers of weekly news magazines can yield much information about the kinds of people a society finds influential and powerful, and because it has been found that women are under-represented on news magazine covers, a study analyzed the women presented on the cover of "Time" magazine between 1923…

Content and critical analyses of 40 speed reading books were undertaken to determine to what extent discussion and teaching reflected current research. Particular attention was given to the information provided on eye movements, span of recognition, and the upper rates of speed attainable through practice. Content analysis revealed the following:…