Reviews the 1994 edition of "The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia" which is available on CD-ROM. Topics addressed include video files; content; ease of use; system requirements; cost; and print capabilities. (LRW)

Analyzes the content of more than 1000 commercials sampled from ABC, CBS, and NBC. Finds that nostalgia was used by means of theme, copy or music about 10 percent of the time and that nostalgic references to family activities or to "olden days" were most likely to be used with food and beverage commercials. (PRA)

Conducted content analysis of advice-seeking letters penned between 1925 and 1939 by fathers and mothers concerned with childrearing. Findings support proposition that culture of fatherhood and conduct of fatherhood in Depression-era America were at odds. Found connection between culture of fatherhood and attitudes of mothers toward fathers.…

Analyzed 141 sentences from 10 articles in "Ebony" having to do with race relations and involving Black principals and White principals. Each sentence was coded for type (report, inference, or judgment), direction of bias, tone, and source. Found the content to be for the most part unbiased and neutral in tone. (DM)

Examines the number and kind of sources certain magazines included in articles about science. Finds that science magazines did not use expert sources more often or even carry proportionately more breaking science news than did business and news magazines. (SR)

Discussion of text summarization in information-retrieval systems focuses on summarizing the similarities and differences in information content among documents. Highlights a tool for analyzing document collections such as multiple news stories about an event or sequence of events. Contains 58 references. (Author/LRW)

Reports on Web users' optimal flow experiences to examine positive aspects of Web experiences that could be linked to theory applied to other media and then incorporated into Web design. Discusses the use of content-analytic procedures to analyze open-ended questionnaires that examined Web users' perceived flow experiences. (Author/LRW)

Presents a perspective on the last five years of "School Psychology Review" (SPR) under editorship of Edward S. Shapiro. Provides content analysis of types of articles published by content affiliation of primary authors. Results suggest that SPR remains a highly competitive journal in school psychology and has expanded its influence into multiple…

Summarizes a prototype geographical image retrieval system that demonstrates how to integrate image processing and information analysis techniques to support large-scale content-based image retrieval. Describes an experiment to validate the performance of this image retrieval system against that of human subjects by examining similarity analysis…

Naturalistic inquiry and content analysis were used to examine the lives of successful adult learners. When confronted with failure, these learners engaged in problem solving, visioning, objectifying, emotional, reflecting, partnering, and active learning behaviors that motivated them toward further achievement. (SK)

Contributes to journalism research by investigating what type and size of probability sample will allow valid inference. Tests the efficiency of probability samples of issues of two monthly consumer magazines over five years, finding a stratified sample more efficient than a simple random sample. (SR)

Discusses the growing gap between what is available on the Internet and what search engines can retrieve, particularly data lost in the breach of the unindexable, versus the unindexed, Web. Highlights include products designed to focus on content that is usually missed by search engines; and directories versus search engines. (Contains 10…

Content of ads on Saturday children's television programs in 1993 (n=378) and 1999 (n=385) was compared with dietary recommendations and advertising guidelines. Cereals and foods high in sugar or fat dominated ads. Results were compared with earlier studies, finding that over 30 years, ads adhered to advertising guidelines but did not reflect…

Analysis of 68 books for children and adolescents which included characters with mental retardation found that the characters with retardation were usually supporting (61 percent) rather than main characters, were static throughout the story (54 percent), and that books were rarely written from the perspective of the character with mental…

This study examines the comparability of sociology of aging courses, a core component in many undergraduate multidisciplinary gerontology minor programs. A content analysis of syllabi in the 5th edition of Teaching Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (Harris, 2000) was undertaken to determine the presence of 7 core sociological concepts. Among…