Communicating with Our Families

Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation
Herausgeber: Burk, Jill K.; Ward, Joel S.; McGinley, Maryl R.

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Produktbeschreibung

Communicating with Our Families explores the impact of communication technologies on family communication. The scholarship in this collection recognizes the peril and opportunity new communication technologies offer, while responding to questions about the impact of technologies on our families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781666900637
• ISBN-10: 166690063X
• Artikelnr.: 70242455

Autorenporträt

Maryl R. McGinley is associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Jill K. Burk is associate teaching professor and program chair of he communication arts and sciences program at Pennsylvania State University, Berks. Joel S. Ward is associate professor of communication at Geneva College.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Dilemma - Maryl R.
McGinley and Jill K. Burk
Section III: Transformation
Chapter 9: "According to Science, This Is Who I Am": Personal Genome
Testing and Adoption Reunions - Melissa Rizzo Weller
Chapter 10: Family Communication Disrupted by Incarceration and the Role of
Technology: An Overview - Tiffany Petricini
Chapter 11: Strengthening Families through Web-Based Interventions:
Developing and Assessing Feasibility of the "REAL Parenting: Talking About
Alcohol" Program - Michelle Miller-Day, Anne E. Ray, Michael L. Hecht, and
Rob Turrisi
Chapter 12: Embracing the Transition to Social Media in Parent-Teen
Communication - Melissa Rizzo Weller, Angela M. Hosek, and Jessica Cherry