This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 53 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) international news flow and the nonaligned nations; (2) cameras in the courtroom; (3) public service communication source influence and radio gatekeeper behavior; (4) television modes of presentation and their implications for learning; (5) United States elite media news coverage of Latin America in 1977; (6) television programing evaluation; (7) boys' understanding of television and real-life models; (8) media dependence and community influences; (9) television and children's self-perceptions; (10) the Nazi anti-Semitic film; (11) newsworthiness as a privacy defense for the media; (12) Israeli general television; (13) television situation comedy and post-war liberal ideology from 1950 to 1980; (14) the merger of National Public Radio and the Association of Public Radio Stations; (15) public perceptions of influences on television content; (16) the programing practices of black-owned, black-oriented radio stations and white-owned, black-oriented radio stations; (17) parental awareness of the use of television and its influence on elementary school children; and (18) news media operations in natural disasters. (FL)