This fourth report in a series summarizing findings from the Urban Employment Survey examines how jobseekers living in the major poverty areas of New York City go about looking for work. The survey was designed to develop information on employment, unemployment, and work-related problems of the working-age population in these areas. The data…

Drawing on research by the author, this paper analyzes the composition of the interpersonal communication networks (auxiliary channels) which are pervasive in human society. These networks tend to be 1) primary in nature, containing four members from primary relationships and one from a secondary relationship, and 2) reflective of neighborhood and…

The results of this study reveal the sources of information apt to go into an information system for education. As part of a national study of the research and development (R&D) capacity of schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs), indices of productivity for such units were derived on six variables: (1) the number of articles…

A description of a career information project at the University of Nebraska which developed media materials depicting 125 occupations. (HB)

Surveys the growth, origins, and languages of the chemical literature. Discusses the indexing and abstracting of the chemical literature by the Chemical Abstracts Service. (MLH)

Provides pointers for news writers in such areas as approaching a story, conducting an interview, using quotations, and protecting sources. (GW)

Results of analyses of the effects of television exposure during the 1972 Presidential campaign suggest that changes in viewer images, issue positions, and candidate perceptions are mostly in intensity rather than in direction, and that involvement and partisanship explain impact to a much greater degree than the type or quantity of television…

Viewdata, an interactive service that may revolutionize the public's access to information, transforms the home television receiver into a home information retrieval terminal via a telephone, which connects it to a central computer covering a wide range of data bases. Its origins, costs, and implications are discussed. (Author/MBR)

Describes the "Federal Register" system as the vehicle for federal agencies to communicate with the public and briefly outlines the advantages of this centralized system as well as the problem presented by the mass of information published. (JMF)

Presents guidelines for health educators to follow in their quest for funding health-related programs and research including sources of funding and suggestions for proposal writing. (JMF)

Reports results of a study on the degree of competition in newspaper ownership, trends in use of press associations and other news services, changes in newspaper circulation, advertising revenue totals, and newspaper group ownership development. (GW)

An analysis of 30 indexing and abstracting services' coverage of journals commonly used by researchers in the fields of political and social science. Growth, improvement and current inadequacies are described. (JAB)

The article lists twenty-four federal consumer-oriented agencies which deal with consumer inquires, with descriptions of the consumer functions of each. The list is taken from a Consumer Product Safety Commission publication and is designed to help consumers determine which agency to contact. (MF)

A brief discussion of bibliographical sources for research on the Middle East is followed by a bibliography of information and research from 1950-1971. The Middle East is defined as that group of countries bounded on the north by Turkey, on the east by Iran, on the south by the Persian Gulf, and on the west by Egypt. (JEG)

Discusses the critical sociology of communication of the Frankfurt School suggesting that theorists such as Lowenthal, Adorno, and Habermas have outlined both the political economics of manipulation and the social psychological interaction between the audience and the media. (MH)