The Politics and Mass Media section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 13 papers: "The 1992 Presidential Debates: A Cognigraphic View" (Richard F. Carter and Keith R. Stamm); "Moving to the Front of the Bus?: Network Coverage of the Invisible Primaries during the 1988 and 1992 Elections" (Thomas J. Johnson and Joe Foote); "Information Presentation and Issue Salience: Their Relationships with Voter Decision-Making Strategies" (David Domke and Dhavan Shah); "Print Media Use and Perceived Credibility among Senior Congressional Staff" (James R. Edwards, Jr.); "The 'Bimbo Primaries': A Comparison of How the Major Television Networks Covered Charges of Womanizing against Bill Clinton and Gary Hart" (Jeanne Norton Rollberg and others); "Newsmagazine Visuals and the 1992 Presidential Election" (Sandra E. Moriarty and Mark N. Popovich); "Self-Efficacy Class, Race, and Call-in Political Television Show Use" (John E. Newhagen); "Talk Show Politics: The Match That Rekindles American Democracy?" (Edward Horowitz); "The Effect of 'Horse Race' Reporting in Increasing Voters' Issue Knowledge" (Xinshu Zhao and Glen L. Bleske); "Is It a Wall? A Tree? A Rope? Or an Elephant?--Television News and Ads as Sources of Issue Information" (Xinshu Zhao and others); "Negative Political Advertisements: Effects of Position, Performance and Personal Attacks" (Megan Mills and others); "Does the Audience Learn More about Images Than Issues from Televised Debates? Effects of the First 1992 Presidential Debate" (Jian-Hua Zhu and others); and "Media Priming in the 1992 Election Campaign: The Effects of Newspaper Stories on Evaluations of President Bush" (Lars Willnat). (NH)