Outlines the common features of Theatre-In-Education (TIE), and suggests that TIE provides an integrated structure for the heightening of personal, social, cultural, and political consciousness through its commitment to perform and address topics such as sex stereotyping, racism, and child abuse. (MM)

Describes the interpretive elements of literary messages, participants, and interaction settings from a social contexts orientation. Presents a framework, rationale, and an implementation strategy for social contexts component in interpretation education. Claims that such programs help participants, through the sensitive communication of…

This article outlines an approach designed to strengthen the validity of the case study method of evaluation. Five aspects of this approach are identified: evaluator selection procedure, method of setting out the evaluation expectations, use of on-going feedback, use of multiple perspectives, and wide involvement of various audiences. (Author/JAZ)

This second article in a series on the relationship between television and children summarizes shortcomings of studies of effects based on traditional psychology. Other approaches to study of television and children using sociological ideas are explored, focusing on what children do to, and with, television as active viewers. (MBR)

Although communication research in China is in an early stage of development, an increasing number of training/research activities exist in universities and institutes. The 1982 Beijing Audience Survey, the first large-scale communication field study in China, reports how mass media audiences (newspaper, radio, and television) are rapidly…

Traces historical development of soap operas and presents results of surveys conducted with college students to determine how viewing affects their behavior, attitudes, and beliefs. Results indicate students neither seek nor take advice from soap operas whereas early radio soap opera listeners sought practical explanations of appropriate behavior…

Argues that, if business discourse involves a me-you transaction where both writer and reader stand to benefit, then business writers must be shown to analyze themselves as well as their audiences. (FL)

Reports the results of a study to determine the most frequently reviewed topics in reading research and the most frequently cited research reviews. (AEA)

Explains how providing a general theme and a varied audience for writing helped improve student research papers. (FL)

A compulsory trainee program for new staff members at the Vienna Business University was established in the academic year 1998/99. In the course of this program new staff members are prepared in the following three areas of their work: research work in their department, especially dissertation writing; teaching classes; and administrative skills.…

This book, part of a series which serve as guides for K-12 teachers who are striving to align lively, classroom-tested practices with standards, gathers together brief articles spotlighting suggestions for effective instruction. Beginning with activities that help students think through the audience and purpose for their writing, this book offers…

This collection of 25 short stories (in Indonesian) by Balinese writers aims to give Bali's writers a wider public. Some of the stories in the collection are distinctly and uniquely Balinese, while others are more universal in their approach and are self-contained. But according to the collection's foreword, in all of the stories, experiences of…

A study profiled college radio stations and explored the feasibility of a college radio network. A mail survey was sent in April 1995 to 1,469 college radio stations (including broadcast stations, carrier current stations, closed-circuit campus stations, radiating cable FM, and cable television access stations). A total of 228 surveys were…

As college and university administrators appraise speech and debate activity, their responses clearly affect the strength and survival of local programs. The director or coach of a debate team must help decision-makers see the educational, social, and personal relevance of forensics. Public presentations of debates that begin with a round of…

In April 1997 in the United Kingdom (UK), "Teletubbies," a television program designed for young children, debuted. Unexpectedly, it developed a cult following among college students. In April 1998 "Teletubbies" debuted in the United States (US) on PBS. A study compared alternative readings and deconstructions of…