TY - BOOK AU - Carol J. Bruess PY - 2015 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2166-6466 SN - 9781453916681 TI - Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media DO - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1668-1 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1118287 N2 - Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing about how digital and social media are affecting and changing nearly every aspect of family interaction over the lifespan. The research and thinking featured in the book reflects the intense growth of interest in families in the digital age. Chapters explore communication among couples, families, parents, adolescents, and emerging adults as their realities are created, impacted, changed, structured, improved, influenced and/or inhibited by cell phones, smartphones, personal desktop and laptop computers, MP3 players, e-tablets, e-readers, email, Facebook, photo sharing, Skype, Twitter, SnapChat, blogs, Instagram, and other emerging technologies. Each chapter significantly advances thinking about how digital media have become deeply embedded in the lives of families and couples, as well as how they are affecting the very ways we as twenty-first-century communicators see ourselves and, by extension, conceive of and behave in our most intimate and longest-lasting relationships. KW - tablet, smartphone, modern comunication LA - English ER -