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

by Maryl R. McGinley (Editor), Jill K. Burk (Editor), Joel S. Ward (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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 Pennsylvania State University, Berks.
Joel S. Ward is associate professor of communication at Geneva College.