Democracy and new communication technologies -- The federal communications commmission and the communication policymaking process: theoretical perspectives and recommendations for future research -- Applying research on the uses and cognitive effects of hypermedia to the study of the world wide web -- Mediation of children'a television viewing: working toward conceptual clarity and common understanding -- Convergence: information, world system, and developing countries -- Communication ethics: centrality, trends and controversies -- Investigating the role of communication in culturally diverse work groups: a review and synthesis -- Three decades of developing, grounding, and using symbolic convergence theory -- Mental imagery and intrapersonal communication: a review of research on imagined interactions (IIs) and current developments -- Attitudes toward language: a review of speaker-evaluation research and a general process model