Volume 2 of the Mass Communication Review Yearbook brings reflecting recent benchmark developments and important trends in the field of mass communication. This volume present 42 articles-some of the most significant and durable of recently published material, over a dozen major papers previously unpublished and several paper translated especially for this volume. A large proportion of articles by noted European (and Japanese) scholars highlights the international dimension of communication research. The second volume of the Yearbook is yet another indispensible source of information for anyone involved in the growing, crossdisciplinary study of mass communication.