Communicating with Our Families
Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
Family Communication Communication Technology Media ecology social media impact interpersonal communication- i–viii Preface i–viii
- 1–8 Introduction 1–8
- 9–112 Continuity 9–112
- 113–160 Interruption 113–160
- 161–250 Transformation 161–250
- 251–262 Index 251–262
- 263–268 About the Contributors 263–268