Dark Side of Family Communication (Key Themes in Family Communication) - Hardcover

Olson, Loreen N; Baiocchi-Wagner, Elizabeth A; Wilson-Kratzer, Jessica M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745647979 ISBN 13: 9780745647975

Publisher: Polity Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Dark Side of Family Communication This is the first book to explore the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life. The book offers an intergrative understanding of the dark side of family communication and a theoretical mechanism for understanding related scholarship. Full description

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Review

"In this volume Loreen N. Olson, Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner, Jessica M. W. Kratzer, and Sarah E. Symonds shed much-needed light on the dark side of family communication. By unearthing the layers of familial relating to reveal numerous caverns of darkness, they generate new landscapes for students and scholars of the dark side and family communication." Erin Willer, University of Denver "Much has been written on the 'dark side' of communication. This is the first book to actually define what dark communication is, explain how it forms, identify what effect it has, recommend how to 'brighten it,' and tie all this together in a Darkness Model of Family Communication." Dudley Cahn, SUNY at New Paltz

About the Author

Loreen N. Olson is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia Jessica M. W. Kratzer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech and Theatre at Middle Tennessee State University Sarah E. Symonds is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia

Edition details

• Publisher: Polity Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745647979
• ISBN 13: 9780745647975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184