Vol. 53 Nbr. 1, March 2009

Index

• A note from Susan Brinson, on the occasion of assuming editorship of this journal.
• The effect of television viewing on adolescents' civic participation: political efficacy as a mediating mechanism.
• Taboo or not taboo? That is the question: offensive language on prime-time broadcast and cable programming.
• The effects of viewing Grey's Anatomy on perceptions of doctors and patient satisfaction.
• The spiral of violence: equity of violent reprisal in professional wrestling and its dispositional and motivational features.
• A sales floor in the sky: Philadelphia department stores and the radio boom of the 1920s.
• Informing citizens: how people with different levels of education process television, newspaper, and Web news.
• Unraveling uses and effects of an Interactive Health Communication System.
• Controversial rap themes, gender portrayals and skin tone distortion: a content analysis of rap music videos.
• Radio's America: The Great Depression and the rise of modern culture.
• 21st century journalism in India.
• Mobile communication and society: A global perspective.
• The Columbia history of American television.
• Live television: Time, space and the broadcast event.
• "Something on My Own": Gertrude Berg and American broadcasting, 1929-1956.
• Outside the box: Corporate media, globalization, and the UPS strike.
• Television in the multichannel age: A brief history of cable television.