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Communicating with Our Families: Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation examines how communication technologies are shaping childhood, parenthood, and families by exploring topics such as parental loneliness, family storytelling, family technology rules, mindful technology usage, multigenerational communication, and community. The scholars in this volume work from a human communication perspective and use various research modes of inquiry including quantitative, qualitative, and interpretive methods. Perhaps the most significant question implied by our contributors in this volume is whether the introduction of new communication technologies will fundamentally alter familial forms and if those new groupings that emerge will resemble what has been generally assumed for several millennia.

Table of Contents

Section I: Continuity

Chapter 1: Zooming through Change: The Role of Communication Technologies in Intergenerational Family Transitions during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Elizabeth B. Jones

Chapter 2: Narrative Wisdom: Implications from Literature for Family Communication Technology – Janie Harden Fritz

Chapter 3: Rhetorical Constructions of the Reset: Video Games and Family Connections – Paul Lucas

Chapter 4: The Role of Communication and Information Technology in Health Information Seeking – Patty Wharton-Michael

Chapter 5: With Great Power Comes Ethical Communication: Technology, Superheroes, and Family Conversations in Communication Ethics – Christina L. McDowell Marinchak and Tyrell J. Stewart-Harris

Section II: Interruption

Chapter 6: Cellular Television and the Reallocation of Familiar Attention – Joel S. Ward

Chapter 7: Formative Media Consumption: Utilizing Media as Grammatical Foundations of Families – Anthony M. Wachs

Chapter 8: Motherhood and Loneliness: The Social Media D

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Published Jul 12 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 276
ISBN 9781666900613
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 b/w illustrations; 1 tables;
Dimensions 228 x 159 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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