The Mass Communication and Society section of the proceedings contains the following selected 14 papers: "When No News Is Not Good News, Ignorance Is Not Bliss, and Your Mama May Not Have Told You: Female Adolescent Information Holding and Seeking about Sexually Transmitted Diseases" (Donna Rouner and Rebecca E. Lindsey); "Newspapers & the Internet: A Comparative Assessment of News Credibility" (Gregg A. Payne, David Dozier, and Afsheen Nomai); "Can Using Qualifiers Initiate Active Processing of Exemplars?" (Stephen D. Perry, John Beesley, Dave Jorgensen, Dave Novak, and Kari Catuara); "Media Ownership and 'Bias': A Case Study of News Magazine Coverage of the 2000 Presidential Election Campaign" (Craig Flournoy, Danielle Sarver, and Nicole Smith); "Do Newspapers Keep Autonomy in Times of National Crisis? A Case Study of the IMF Crisis in Korea, 1997-1999" (Irkwon Jeong); "Agenda Setting & Attitudes: An Exploration of Political Figures during the 1996 Presidential Election" (Spiro Kiousis); "The Effects of Warning Labels on Cellular Phones in Korea" (Sung Wook Shim and Jongmin Park); "Word People vs. Picture People: Normative Differences and Strategies for Control Over Work Among Newsroom Subgroups" (Wilson Lowrey); "Better Informed, No Say: Internet News Use and Political Efficacy" (Young Mie Kim); "Media Participation: A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy" (Erik P. Bucy and Kimberly S. Gregson); "From Wall Street to Main Street: An Analysis of Stock Market Recommendations on TV Business News Programs" (Bruce L. Plopper and Anne F. Conaway); "Media and Democracy: News Media's Political Alienation Effect in Both Election and Non-Election Settings" (Tien-tsung Lee); "Misrepresentation of the Race of Juvenile Criminals on Local Television News" (Travis L. Dixon and Cristina Azocar); and "Redefining Homelessness: How Tucson Recyclers Resist the Media's Stereotyping" (Deborah Kaplan). (RS)