December 2005 Volume 41 Number 3

Topic: Media Literacy Studies
TOMARU Asuka and SUZUKI Midori  Media Literacy and Television News
 Analysis from a Gender Perspective:
    The 2005 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and Related Activities.
SALLY McLaren  Makiko, Madonnas and Political Melodramas:
    Researching Women, Elections and the Media in Japan.
ELIZABETH Detoito  Engendering Change-Women in Media NGOs
    in the Philippines
GABRIELE Hadl and Arne Hintz  Civil Society Media at the World Summit
 on the Information Society (WSIS):
    The Challenges of Policy Intervention.
SUZUKI Midori and NISHIMURA Hisako  The Role of Television in Elections:
    An Analysis of the Evening News Programs of September 12th,
    the Day After the 2005 General Election.

Articles:
CHRISTIAN Etzrodt  Can a Law Be Formulated for Human Behavior?
HIRAMOTO Takeshi  Cyberspace as Socially Distributed Cognitive System:
    Where does cyberspace exist?
FUJITA Satoru  The Structure and Modern Transformation of Civil Society
    in Marx’s Theory of Civil Society

Notes:
MATSUI Shinichi and NAKAI Miki  Survey Research Using a Random Sampling:
    A case of a survey of Kyoto woman

Essay:
MATSUBA Masafumi  An Essay on the History of Postwar Japan (2):
    State, market and civil society

A Brief of Doctoral Dissertation:
NAKANE Naruhisa
 Clinical Sociology of Family of Children with Learning Difficulty
MIYATA Hisae
 The Consciousness of Female Clients Receiving in Vitro Fertillization in the
  Context of Assisted Reproductive Technology