Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (83rd, Phoenix, Arizona, August 9-12, 2000). Mass Communication and Society Division.

The Mass Communication and Society Division section of the proceedings contains the following 12 papers: "Retreads: Recycling American Prime Time Television for Fun and Profit" (Chad Dell); "Partisan and Structural Balance of Election Stories on the 1998 Governor's Race in Michigan" (Frederick Fico and William Cote); "Newspaper Letters and Phone-Mail to the Editor: A Comparison of Reader Input" (Michael E. Dupre and David A. Mackey); "Economic Literacy and News Interest" (Lowndes F. Stephens); "Treating the Y2K Bug: Knowledge Gap Factors That Shaped the Outcome of a Public Issue" (Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier); "A Framing Analysis: How Did Three U.S. News Magazines Frame about Mergers or Acquisitions?" (Sang Hee Kweon); "Thinking about Health: The Relationship of Mass Media and Cognition to Perceptions of Children's Health" (Bryan H. Reber); "The Effects of News Stories That Put Crime and Violence into Context: Testing the Public Health Model of Reporting" (Renita Coleman and Esther Thorson); "Political Talk--Not All 'Hot Air': A Path Model Predicting Knowledge, Cynicism & Vote in an Issue Campaign" (Glenn Leshner and Maria E. Len-Rios); "An 'Improbable Leap'": A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Hillary Clinton's Transition from First Lady to Senate Candidate" (Erica Scharrer); "The Impact of Political Advertising: Differences Between Positive Ads and Issue, Image and Mixed Attacks" (Sung Wook Shim); and "Pleasure, Reality, and Hegemony: A Television Drama and Women in a Korean Confucian Patriarchal Family Structure" (Oh-Hyeon Lee). (RS)