Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (82nd, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 3-8, 1999). Mass Communication and Society

The Mass Communication and Society section of the Proceedings contains the following 17 papers: "Interactivity and the 'Cyber-Fan': Audience Involvement within the Electronic Fan Culture of the Internet" (Vic Costello); "A Reassessment of the Relationship between Public Affairs Media Use and Political Orientations" (Kim A. Smith); "Journalists and Their Computers: An Inseparable Link for the Future?" (Bruce Garrison); "Do You Admit or Deny? An Experiment in Public Perceptions of Politicians Accused of Scandal" (Patrick Meirick and Zixue Tai); "Drudging Up the News: 'The Drudge Report' and Its Use of Sources" (Scott Abel); "New Media, Old Values: What Online Newspaper Journalists Say Is Important to Them" (Ann M. Brill); "Migrant Workers: Myth or Reality? A Case Study of News Narrative in English-Language Thai Newspapers, 'The Nation' and 'Bangkok Post', during Asian Economic Crisis 1997" (Suda Ishida); "Differential Employment Rates in the Journalism and Mass Communication Labor Force Based on Gender, Race and Ethnicity: Exploring the Impact of Affirmative Action" (Lee B. Becker, Edmund Lauf, and Wilson Lowrey); "Is the Web Sexist? A Content Analysis of Children's Web Sites" (Linda Ver Steeg, Robert LaRose, and Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo); "MPAA Film Ratings: Are They a Disservice to Parents?" (Ron Leone); "Using Is Believing: The Influence of Reliance on the Credibility of Online Political Information" (Thomas J. Johnson, and Barbara K. Kaye); "Autonomy in Journalism: How It Is Related to Attitudes and Behavior of Media Professionals" (Armin Scholl and Siegfried Weischenberg); "Screen Sex, 'Zine Sex, and Teen Sex: Do Television and Magazines Cultivate Adolescent Females' Sexual Attitudes?" (Michael J. Sutton, Jane D. Brown, and Karen M. Wilson); "Changes in Female Roles in Taiwanese Women's Magazines, 1971-1992" (Ping Shaw); "Public Trust or Mistrust?: Perceptions of Media Credibility in the Information Age" (Spiro Kiousis); "The Logic of the Link: The Associative Paradigm in Communication Criticism" (Dennis D. Cali); and "When Bad Things Happen to Bad People: Will Social Comparison Theory Explain Effects of Viewing TV Talk Shows?" (Cynthia M. Frisby). (RS)