This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 37 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the role of television in the lives of older homebound individuals; (2) radio wars between Cuba and the United States; (3) the relationship between involvement, mass media habits, and health information seeking; (4) mass communication and cultural stasis; (5) relationships between alternative aspects of advertising intensity and market structure in selected product categories; (6) mass media and the cognitive images people hold of other nations; (7) factors that relate to effective use of radio in nonformal education in developing countries; (8) Japanese educational television and its implications for American educational television; (9) cognitive response to political advertising; (10) the effect of sexual stereotyping in print advertising on brand name recall, sales point recall, and buying attitude; (11) all-news radio listening from a structuralist point of view; (12) the narration within the narrative in voice-over; (13) public access cable television; (14) dynamics of development communication; (15) regulatory policymaking; and (16) the United States commercial television export phenomenon in the international market. (HOD)