Description: 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.
Brief description: 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.
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""Communicating with Our Families invites us into the rich, variegated communication within family life--the everyday wonders and worries we experience in our age of intense technological mediation amid the enduring realities of eating, working, sleeping, and talking together close at hand."" --Calvin L. Troup, Geneva College
"Communicating with Our Families: Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation, is a collection of essays that explore the impact, influence, and consequences of new and emergent communication technologies on familial communication, familial relationships, and communicative action in the world. The editors are guided by the assumption that how human beings live in familial relationships can model how we relate to others and engage in the world around us--extending communicative practices beyond familial ties. Considering all of the polarization, incivility, and disruption in our communities, our governments, and our generalized public sphere today, this text reminds us to look toward our families to learn how we might transform our public spaces with healthier communicative engagement." --Annette M. Holba, Plymouth State University