Description: The Onset of the Age-Based and Content-Based Ratings System: History, Pressure Groups, Congress and the Fcc, Matthew Eastin. The Ratings Distribution in 1998, According to TV Gulde, Bradley S. Greenberg, Matthew Eastin, and Dana Mastro. Comparing the On-Air Ratings with the Published Ratings: Who to Believe? Bradley S. Greenberg, Matthew Eastin, and Dans Mastro. Accessing the Validity of V-chip Rating Judgments: The Labeling of High-Risk Programs, Date Kunkel, Wendy Jo Maynard Farinola, Kirstie M. Cope, Edward Donnerstein, Erica Biely, Lara Zwarun, and Emma Rollin. Comparative Program Rating Systems in Australia, Canada, and France, Linda Lofschire. Young People's Responses to the Age-Based Ratings, Bradley S. Greanberg, Lynn Rampoidi-Hnilo, and Linda Hofschire. Young People's Responses to the Content-Based Ratings, Bradley S. Greenberg and Lynn Rampoidi-Hnilo. Children and the TV Ratings: A National Study, Uila Goette Foehr, Vicky Rideout, and Carolyn Miller. Reactions of Hispanic Parents to the New Television Ratings, Dane Mastro. Field Studies of the Reactions of Caucasian Parents to the New Television Ratings, Jennifer Gragg. Responses to the New Television Program Ratings among Caucasian and Latina Mothers of Young Children, Lynn..Rampoldi-Hniio and Bradley. S. Greenberg. Parents and the TV Ratings System: A National Study, Ulla Goette Foehr, Vicky Rideout, and Carolyn Miller. Profiling Parents Who Do and Don't Use the TV Advisory Ratings, Robert Abelman. Media Advisories and Ratings: What the Experimental Research Tells Us, Linda Hofschire. What Have We Learned About the Ratings and What's Next, Bradley S. Greenberg, Lynn Rampoidl-Hnilo and Dane Mastro. Author Index. Subject Index.

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