The Politics and Mass Media section of the proceedings contains the following 14 papers: "Voter Learning in the 1990 Off-Year Election: Did the Media Matter?" (David Weaver and Dan Drew); "Televised Political Conventions as Pseudo-Events: Proposals for More Substantive Campaign Coverage in 1992" (John M. Arwood); "Media Agenda-Setting and Priming in a Double-Crisis Period: A Time Series Analysis" (Jian-Hua Zhu); "Coverage of the 1988 Presidential Campaign in 'Time,''U.S. News and World Report,' and 'Newsweek'" (Mark Popovitch and others); "Coverage of the 1988 Presidential Campaign by Three Global Elite Newspapers" (Mark Popovitch and Sandra Moriarty); "Visual Images of U.S. Politicians Presented in Weekly News Magazines" (Jisuk Woo); "Analyzing Newspaper Editorials: Are the Arguments Consistent?" (David Boeyink); "Covering the Capitol: Is Gender an Issue?" (Dianne Lynch-Paley); "Expertise, Affect, and Political Information Processing" (Mei-Ling Hsu); "Trust in Government and Active Participation: The Role of Media Use, Ideology, Personality, and Political Interest in the Democratic Urge" (Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.); "Corporations, the News Media and Other Villains within Jackson's Rhetorical Vision" (Linda Florence Callahan); "The Seven Dwarfs and Other Tales: How the Press Covered the 1988 Democratic Primaries without a Frontrunner" (Thomas J. Johnson); "Making the Product and Reading the Text: Politics, Culture and Media Studies" (Mark Schulman); and "Political and Social Views of Mass Communicators: A Study of Radio and Television General Managers and News Directors" (Jeremy Harris Lipschultz and Michael L. Hilt). (PRA)