The Mass Media Studies section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 20 papers: "Media Awareness of Media Manipulation: The Use of the Term 'Spin Doctor'" (James W. Tankard, Jr. and Randy Sumpter); "Prime Time Network TV Sex as a Counterprogramming Strategy during the 1992 Winter Olympics: An Analysis of Content and Ratings" (Dennis T. Lowry and Jon A. Shidler); "Putting News into Context: Apparent Reality Versus Source Credibility in Judgments of News Believability" (Erica Weintraub Austin and Qingwen Dong); "Assessing U.S. Television's Media Imperialism: An Exercise in Theory-Building" (Larry S. Elliott); "Media Coverage of Social Protest: An Examination of Media Hegemony" (Jane R. Ballinger); "Newscasts as Property: Will the Cable Television Act of 1992 Stimulate Production of More Local Television News?" (Lorna Veraldi); "Unintended Effect: Persuasion by the Graphic Presentation of Public Opinion Poll Results" (Barry A. Hollander); "Development of Parasocial Interaction as a Function of Repeated Viewing of a Television Program" (Philip J. Auter and Philip Palmgreen); "Media Coverage of Ethical Misconduct in Congress and Its Effect on Formal Ethical Inquiries: A Preliminary Analysis" (Cynthia King Jablonski); "Connecting Media Use with Causal Attribution" (Kuang-yu Stacy Huang); "Support for Media and Personal Expressive Rights: Development of Parallel Scales" (Julie L. Andsager); "A Multiattribute Attitude Model as a Descriptive and Diagnostic Tool for Media Managers" (J. Frederick-Collins and Xinshu Zhao); "Questions vs. Answers in the 1992 Presidential Debates: A Content Analysis of Interviewing Styles" (Carolyn B. Miller); "Community Integration and Media Use: A New Epoch Requires a New View" (Gregg A. Payne); "Structures of News, Structures of Discourse: Reappraising Discourse Analysis and Its Implications for News Studies" (Shujen Wang); "Media Agenda Setting and the United States Supreme Court's Civil Liberties Docket, 1981-1990" (Melinda J. Fancher); "Religion and Trust in News from the Mass Media" (Judith M. Buddenbaum); "The War on Drugs: A Constructionist View" (Michael P. McCauley and Edward R. Frederick); "Deviates Defoliated: Lesbians and Gay Men Break into Mainstream Publicity, 1969" (Howard Voland); and "An Experimental Test of the Agenda-Setting Function of the Press" (Wolfgang Eichhorn). (RS)