This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the response of the law to visual journalism from l839 to l978; (2) woman's image in authoritative Mormon discourse; (3) the depiction of computers and computer-related subjects in newspapers directed toward different social classes; (4) journalists' privilege and congressional investigations in the nineteenth century; (5) the Romanian press and its party-state relationship; (6) the effect of instruction and accuracy in journalism copyediting; (7) the anticommunist press's view of communism from 1945 to l947; (8) editorial economics; (9) the relationship of newspaper characteristics and types of releases on publications; (10) images of school-press relations as seen by administrators and students; (11) the New York Times' coverage of India from 1973 to 1980; (12) the World War II journalism of Steinbeck, Caldwell, and Hemingway; (13) the typographical design techniques of the arts and crafts movement and Art Nouveau and their identification in the printed works of the Bauhaus; (14) newspaper readers in Brazil; (15) reallocation of advertising funds in changing newspaper markets; and (16) the newspaper editor as public official. (FL)