Responds to previous article by Stolley and Hall (this issue) on presentation of abortion and adoption in undergraduate marriage and family textbooks. Agrees that adoption should be covered more comprehensively, but disagrees with Stolley and Hall on issue of parity of coverage of adoption and abortion as choices in resolution of unwanted…

Authors of original article on presentation of adoption and abortion in undergraduate marriage and family textbooks respond to commentaries on that article by Nock and by Strong and DeVault (all this issue). Respond by addressing aspects of authors' research regarding social construction approach in general and specific meaning of abortion and…

Compares coverage of five subjects in eight daily newspapers, employing both factor analysis and Pearson correlations. Computes correlation coefficients among newspapers by using (1) size of individual stories as items; and (2) space measurements by categories. Finds that different ways of coding the same raw data produced different results. (SR)

Uses content analysis of 15 major research journals to evaluate the telecommunications research productivity of U.S. communications programs. Ranks communication programs producing telecommunications articles in selected journals, producing student-authored telecommunications articles, producing articles on new and recently emerged technology or…

Reviews the focus of the journal "Management Communication Quarterly" during its first six years, to explore whether a theme has emerged that could be a de facto definition of management communication. Finds mixed results. (SR)

Examines a range of writing textbooks. Finds that many composition textbooks trivialize or misrepresent writing as process and process pedagogy. Outlines how composition theory becomes commodified. Calls for a radical revision of textbooks, including teachers helping students create their own texts. (HB)

Shows how online content analysis can be used to measure the frequencies and contexts of issues that advertisers circulate to major media markets. An example of a study of word strings of advertising slogans, a description of the benchmarks of successful sloganeering, and strategies for planning a study are described. (KRN)

Examines technical books for women of the English renaissance as a microcosm for studying connections among the emergence of technical writing as a genre, the rise of literacy, expansion of knowledge and technology, and replacement of orality by textuality as a result of increasing knowledge. (SR)

Continues questioning the position of the ethnographer as filmmaker in relation to those of whom the filmmaker speaks, while arguing that attention be given to the position of those to whom the filmmaker speaks. Refocuses attention on the effects of the ethnographic film in the place of its reception. (PRA)

Analyzes the content of 16 hours of children's cartoon television programs. Finds that (1) all programs contained some violence, but especially those programs linked with toy merchandisers; (2) such programs used more theme music; and (3) few Black characters were shown, whereas males predominated and females were victims more often than were men.…

Shows that content analysis performed on a database of newspaper stories yielded (in unpredictable ways) results different from the hand search. Cautions researchers to be careful when comparing content-analysis research results of online searches to hand searches, noting that all databases do not provide the same access to information. (SR)

Reports on the work of Todd Ross which focuses on creating ties within the curricula between information literacy and classroom curriculum. His studies provide proof of the importance of teaching information literacy skills to improve student success, and content mapping and teaching theoretical content is related. (LRW)

Describes listservs as communities of individuals who come together on the Internet based on a common interest. Highlights include types of listservs, including those based on specific subjects, supporting products, goal-oriented, disseminating information, and friendship; e-mail filters; lists in the information industry; content quality; privacy…

Contributes to scholarship on news coverage of political campaigns by examining how Michigan's nine largest daily newspapers covered the 1996 presidential campaign. Finds that stories were significantly imbalanced in favor of Dole. Finds that chances were nearly even that any encountered story was one sided, but two-sided stories were likely to be…

Performed content analysis of interviews of female students with male and female professors and male students with male and female professors for differences related to student/professor gender combination. Quantitative and qualitative analyses for 40 students showed no differences in professional relationships, but it did reveal some…