The Communication Theory and Methodology section of the proceedings contains the following 12 selected papers: "Innovativeness and Perceptions of Faculty Innovation Champions on the Diffusion of World Wide Web Course Features" (Patrick J. Sutherland); "A Communication 'Mr. Fit'? Living with No Significant Difference" (Fiona Chew, Sushma Palmer, and Kalyani Subbiah); "How Does Political Commentary Shape Perceptions of Political Candidates? A Quasi-Experimental Investigation of the 2000 Vice-Presidential Debate" (Fang Wan, Patrick Meirick, Alina Oxendine, and Justin Holmes); "Building a Health Promotion Agenda in Local Newspapers: Community Structural Pluralism and News about Breast Cancer" (Beverly Martinson and Douglas Blanks Hindman); "Assessing the Impact of Recession News: A Time-Series Analysis of Economic Communication in Japan, 1988-1999" (H. Denis Wu, Michael W. McCracken, and Shinichi Saito); "Counteracting the Biasing Effect of Unrepresentative Exemplification on News Readers' Issue Perception" (Hao-Chieh Chang); "'You're No Jack Kennedy!' The Influence of Post-Debate Commentary on Candidate Evaluations" (Jennifer L. Williams and Christina L. Fiebich); "Use of Online News Sites: Development of Habit and Automatic Procedural Processing" (Maria E. Len-Rios and Clyde H. Bentley); "Presidential Agenda Setting: A Pilot Study on the Weekly Radio Addresses and Media Coverage of Foreign Policy" (Beverly Horvit); "Teens as the Vulnerable Surfers: The Third-Person Perception and Commercial Web Sites Censorship" (Seounmi Youn, Fang Wan, and Ronald J. Faber);"Applying the Health Belief Model To Promote Healthy Lifestyles via Television in Poland" (Fiona Chew, Sushma Palmer, Zofia Slonska, and Kalyani Subbiah); and "Global Triadization: A Theoretical Framework for Global Communication Research" (Shelton A. Gunaratne). (RS)