The selection of textbooks used in content analysis to determine values taught to students is important. Only widely used texts must be analyzed. The samples of U.S. history texts used by Fitzgerald (1979) and Barth and Shermis (1980) in their studies were not representative of textbooks used in schools. (RM)

Traced the flow of foreign news from two U.S. wire services into 11 Indiana small dailies. Concluded, among other findings, that small newspapers used foreign news items in proportion to the number of items they received from the wire services. (PD)

Analysis of third-grade books in the New Macmillan Reading Program reveals that the books exceeded the publisher's designation of readability and did not progress in difficulty from easy to more difficult. Findings suggest the need for more complete and reliable information from publishers concerning textbook readability. (FL)

Postwar films, while continuing to depict the stereotype of the disabled veteran as victim or madman, have gone beyond merely dealing with the visible signs of disability to a more sensitive treatment of the trauma of injury, the rehabilitation process, and the relationship between the disabled and society. (Author/MJL)

Analyzes Judge Potter Stewart's voting record on First Amendment cases and concludes that he is one of the strongest supporters of the First Amendment on the Supreme Court. (FL)

All available 1970-71 higher education collective bargaining contracts (46) and a 20-percent sample of 1979-80 contracts (88) were examined using key word and context analysis to identify significant concepts. Contracts from all regions, bargaining agents, and types of institutions are included in the study. (MLF)

Examines the portrayal of intimate sexual behavior on soap operas and concludes that soap operas have more sexual content than do prime-time programs, but the types of intimacies differ. Notes that soap operas are potentially a major force in the transmission of values and sexual information to youthful viewers. (PD)

Assesses the extent and nature of sexual behavior in daytime soap operas. Concludes that soap operas can be assumed to be presenting a distorted picture of sexual behavior in America, particularly in the ratio of married to unmarried sexual behavior. Suggests that steady viewing may influence young viewers' attitudes and values. (PD)

Describes a system in which the microcomputer is used to analyze athletic performance recorded on film and provide data on body movements to athletes and their coaches. Equipment, software, and one application of the system are discussed. (JJD)

Found that communication journal articles cite studies in psychology as often as in communication and that, since 1965, most of the citations to articles outside of communication were no longer current. Discusses nonreciprocity in information exchange, selective borrowing, information lag, and the influence of psychology on communication. (PD)

Focuses on the news coverage of the International Program for the Development of Communications (IPDC) Conference held in Mexico, January 1982. However, the IPDC is also analyzed in relation to the evolution of the international communication debate. (PD)

Reveals that portrayals of handicapped individuals occur far less frequently in basal readers than they do in children's literature. (FL)

Surveys children's picture-story sex books and parents' child-guidance manuals from the early 1900s to the present and reveals the twentieth century changes in approaches to sex education. (HOD)

Examines the readability and content of adolescent literature about Native Americans from northern and western Canada. (AEA)

Examined images of aging women depicted in periodical advertising over a 10-year period. Analyzed content for frequency, products involved, setting, value orientation, and change over time. Found older women in less than 1% of the advertisements, and no significant changes from 1967-1977. (Author/JAC)