This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with the following topics: design characteristics of "Sesame Street" and the visual attention of preschool children; content, intent, and audience response to black-directed, black-oriented feature films; documentary television programs; the effects of film aggression on children; foreign students and television and newspaper uses; the effect of adult mediation of television programing and peer pressure on children; communications administration, policy, and program development for public broadcasting; styles of parent-child interaction as a factor in children's learning from television; consumer socialization; career awareness and television; the development of a graduate program in mass communication; broadcasting and presidential popularity; media sensitization; media and nonmedia and the needs of the elderly; a reevaluation of the effects of television violence; programing strategies and program popularity for children; consumer information acquisition; and political news on television. (FL)