This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 58 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: value, attitude, and behavior change initiated by interpersonal and mass media; television and the school; bridal magazines from 1967 to 1977; interpersonal communication behavior in commercial television programing; Canadian private broadcasters and the reestablishment of a private broadcasting network; Public Law 93-107, the sports antiblackout law; mediating effects of television violence through curriculum intervention; crossownership and the marketplace of ideas; media and the American mind; cable television; television as a source of career awareness for children; a comparison of television and newspaper credibility; the effect of dialect on the persuasiveness of a radio advertisement; patterns of sequence, reduction, field size, and directionality in the edited films of white male adolescents; the mass media and politics; news flow between the United States and Asia; story films; all-news radio stations; academic achievement and television viewing practices; race, public opinion, and print media coverage; television advertising directed to children; comparative advertising; television exposure and language acquisition of preschool children; and audience research for public television. (FL)