Communication Across the Life Span
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Communication Across the Life Span

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Communication Across the Life Span

About this book

As we grow up and grow old, embrace new experiences, try new roles, and adopt new technologies, our senses of time, space, connection, and identity are fundamentally explored through communication. Why, how, with whom, and to what end humans communicate reflect and shape our ever-changing life span position. And while the «life span» can be conceived as a continuum, it is also one hinged by critical junctures and bound by cultural differences that can be better understood through communication.
The chapters in this collection, chosen from among the invited plenary speakers, top research papers, and ideas discussed in San Juan, explore the multiple ways communication affects, reflects, and directs our life transition. Capturing the richness and diversity of scholarship presented at the conference, chapters explore communication technologies that define a generation; communication and successful aging; stereotyping and family communication; sexual communication and physiological measurement; life span communication and the digital divide; and home-based care contexts across the world, among others.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction to Communication Across the Life Span (Amy B. Jordan and Jon F. Nussbaum)
  4. Chapter One: Young People and Communication Technologies: Emerging Challenges in Generational Analysis (Sun Sun Lim)
  5. Chapter Two: Digital Media and Generations (Jean Burgess)
  6. Chapter Three: Technologies, Generations, and Structures of Storytelling (Zizi Papacharissi)
  7. Chapter Four: Communication and Successful Aging (Jessica Gasiorek, Craig Fowler, and Howard Giles)
  8. Chapter Five: Stereotyping and Family Communication (Mary Lee Hummert)
  9. Chapter Six: Future Directions in Post Sex Communication Research: Exploring Long-Term Relationships, Aging, and Physiology (Amanda Denes, Annika C. Speer, Anuraj Dhillon, and Kara L. Winkler)
  10. Chapter Seven: Older Adults’ Mediated Communication: Current Perspectives among Communication Scholars (Margot J. van der Goot)
  11. Chapter Eight: Techno-Social Generations and Communication Research (Peter Hart-Brinson, Guobin Yang, and Piermarco Aroldi)
  12. Chapter Nine: Aging, Media, and Communication (Fausto Colombo)
  13. Chapter Ten: The Digital Divide: Worldwide Challenges for Communication Across the Life Span in the Digital Age (Susan B. Kretchmer, Teresa Correa, Ellie Rennie, Julian Thomas, Laura Robinson, Susana Salgado, Amit Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, Noam Tirosh, Shula Mola, Jonathan Mendels, Malka Shaham, Ghalia Abu-Kaf, Qinghua Yang, and Simeon J. Yates)
  14. Chapter Eleven: Constructing the Carer Across the Life Span of Care: Home-Based Care Contexts Across the Globe (Kirstie McAllum, Carla L. Fisher, Muriel Scott, Mary Simpson, John Oetzel, Kay Berryman, Rangimahora Reddy, and Jill Yamasaki)
  15. About the Editors and Contributors
  16. Index