The Mass Media Effects section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 13 papers: "The Nature of the Public's Objections to Television Programs: An Examination of Third-Person Effects" (Guy E. Lometti and others); "An Examination of the Relationship of Structural Pluralism, News Role and Source Use with Framing in the Context of a Community Controversy" (Cynthia-Lou Coleman); "Covering Xenophobia: Mass Media and the 'Holocaust Denial' Controversy" (Allen W. Palmer and D. Jeffrey Welch); 'The Third-Person Effect and Social Distance: Exploring Who are the 'Others'" (Joan Conners); "'Omigoditsthebigone!'": Uses of an Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB) Following the Great Quake of 1994" (Maryl Neff and James A. Karrh); "Influences on Reporters' Use of Sources at High Circulation U.S. Newspapers" (Angela Powers and Frederick Fico); "The Audience Objections Index: A Measure of TV Viewer Tolerance of Entertainment Gatekeeping" (James D. Kelly and Larry Collette); "Tragedy on Bayou Canot!: Newspaper Coverage of the Wreck of Amtrak's Sunset Limited" (Ana C. Garner and W. A. Kelly Huff); "Toward a Working Theory of Representations of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Press" (Catherine A. Steele); "The Effectiveness of Simple and Stratified Random Sampling in Broadcast News Content Analysis" (Daniel Riffe and others); "Race as a Variable in the Agenda-Setting Process" (Wayne Wanta and Randy Miller); "News of Hurricane Andrew: The Agenda of Sources and the Sources' Agenda" (Michael B. Salwen); and "Being Informed and Feeling Informed: The'Assurance Function' of the Mass Media" (Michael B. Salwen and Paul Driscoll). (NKA)