Toward a discourse of communications / Stewart M. Hoover -- Values and communication research / James D. Halloran -- Corporations, the media industry, and society / Stanley Deetz and E. Graham McKinley -- Political justice and civil society in the information age / Shalini Venturelli -- Human values and the aesthetics of a television program / Kevin F. Kersten -- What does the Bible have to do with mass media anyway? / Paul A. Soukup -- Mass media performance : do people matter? / Cees J. Hameli