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NEW AT MOUTON DE GRUYTER COMMUNICATIONS THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH Editors: Karsten Renckstorf and Keith Roe Associate Editors: Hans Beentjes and Nicholas W. Jankowski Four issues per volume (approx. 480 pages) ISSN 0341-2059 COMMUNICATIONS ONLINE: Online access is now available to all institutional subscribers of the print version at no extra charge. To register for free online access, please contact us at o-journalsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuedeGruyter.com for more information. The European Journal of Communication Research is an established forum for scholarship and academic debate in the field of communication science and research. Communication science is concerned with the investigation of the structure and function of communication processes and their impact on society, social groups and individuals. The European Journal of Communication Research highlights the concerns of this discipline through the publication of articles, research reports, review essays and book reviews on theoretical and methodological developments considered from a European perspective. COMMUNICATIONS seeks new and original European research material in the fields of interpersonal communication, intercultural communication and mass communication. COMMUNICATIONS publishes contributions on communication theory and the philosophy of communication, including contemporary ideas such as cultural studies, gender studies, semiotics or pragmatism. COMMUNICATIONS collects material concerned with the interaction and interrelations between language and communication, communication and technology, and communication and gender. COMMUNICATIONS monitors research on communication in different settings and contexts, such as political communication, health communication, marketing communication, and communication within complex organizations. COMMUNICATIONS focuses on media history and media development. It comments on aspects of cultural change resulting from new technologies and their impact on people's lives. COMMUNICATIONS discusses the frameworks within which people communicate and use communication technology. It reports on the production and reception of mediated messages and the role that media technologies and electronic networks play in these processes. COMMUNICATIONS encompasses, in other words, the entire field of communication science as its domain of interest. CONTENTS VOLUME 27 1/02 Editor's Note Articles: KLAUS SCHOENBACH AND EDMUND LAUF Contents or Design? Factors Influencing the Circulation of American and German Newspapers CHAVA E. TIDHAR AND HILLEL NOSSEK All in the Family: The Integration of a New Media Technology in the Family ANAT FIRST All Women Should Cry: The Presentation of Women in Foreign News Commentary and Debate: DAFNA LEMISH Gender at the Forefront: Feminist Perspectives on Action Theoretical Approaches in Communication Research PATTI VALKENBURG, HANS BEENTJES, PETER NIKKEN AND ED TAN Kijkwijzer: The Dutch Rating system for Audiavisual Productions Research in Brief: ELLEN HIJMANS AND MARTINE VAN SELM Between Altruism and Narcism: An Action Theoretical Approach of Personal Homepages Devoted to Existential Meaning For subscription information please contact the publisher: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: orders
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