The Communication Tech and Policy section of the Proceedings contains the following 14 papers: "Interactivity Reexamined: An Analysis of Business Web Sites" (Louisa Ha and E. Lincoln James); "Newspaper Size as a Factor in Use of Computer-Assisted Reporting" (Bruce Garrison); "The Rural-Urban Gap in Community Newspaper Editors' Use of Information Technologies" (Douglas Blanks Hindman, Stan Ernst, and Mavis Richardson); "Online Newspapers: Living Up to Their Potential?" (James W. Tankard, Jr., and Hyun Ban); "Digital Imaging and the Photojournalist: Work and Workload Issues" (John Russial); "The Convergence of the Web and Television: Current Technological Situation and Its Future" (Seungwhan Lee); "On-Line or Off-Base? A Pilot Study to Determine Undergraduate Student Perceptions about Offering a Journalism/Mass Communication Course on the Web" (Barbara J. DeSanto and J. Steven Smethers); "The Tease Effect of Slow Downloading: Arousal and Excitation Transfer in Online Communication" (S. Shyam Sundar and Carson B Wagner); "The Effects of Hypertext on Readers' Recall Based on Gender" (Moon Jeong Lee); "The Role of Local Government in Information Age after the Passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996" (Kuo-Feng Tseng); "The Dimensions of Truth: The Case of Northwest Airlines versus WCCO-TV" (Steve LeBeau); "The Unique Nature of Communications Regulation: Evidence and Implications for Communications Policy Analysis" (Philip M. Napoli); "Mass Media and the Concept of Interactivity: An Exploratory Study of Online Forums and Reader E-Mail" (Tanjev Schultz);"Interactivity: A Qualitative Exploration of Definitions and Models" Sally J. McMillan and Edward J. Downes); and "Computerization of Taiwanese Newspapers" (Li-jing Arthur Chang). (RS)