Communicating with Our Families: Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation - Hardcover

McGinley; Maryl R; Burk; Jill K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666900613 ISBN 13: 9781666900613

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2022

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Maryl R. McGinley is associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Jill K. Burk is associate teaching professor and program chair of the Communication Arts and Sciences program at Penn State University, Berks. Christina L. McDowell is senior lecturer of Marketing and Management Communication at Cornell University in the SC Johnson College of Business, Nolan School of Hotel Administration.

Joel S. Ward is associate professor of communication at Geneva College.

Anthony M. Wachs is assistant professor of rhetoric, communication ethics & the Catholic intellectual tradition at Duquesne University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666900613
• ISBN 13: 9781666900613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276