This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 35 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) television and scholastic achievement; (2) press freedom and the new world information order; (3) content analysis of Saturday morning children's television for food and nutrition information; (4) the "700 Club" as religion and as television; (5) alienation, communication, and mass media behavior; (6) sound perspective in motion picture dialogue sequences as a function of interpersonal diegetic space; (7) news media choice and audience gratifications--an application of the expectancy-value and lexicographic models; (8) visual complexity in television news; (9) foreign television program viewing and dependency; (10) imagery of family and workplace in television entertainment in the 1970s; (11) children's uses of television related to the acculturation process; (12) political television advertising objectives; (13) the definition of the audience in the history of television audience research; and (14) a legal and policy analysis of the deregulation of commercial radio. (HOD)