Feminism provides a worldview with innovative possibilities for scholarship and activism on
behalf of families and intimate relationships. As a flexible framework capable of engaging …

In this essay, we advance the Critical Media Effects (CME) framework as a way of bridging
two major subfields of communication that seldom speak to one another: media effects …

As part of an effort to contribute to that discussion, this chapter offers a window into the level
of sample representativeness within Interpersonal Communication research, as reflected by …

Memorable messages oftentimes are associated with hope, can foster anticipatory resilience
prior to the experience of disruptive events, and can buffer the negative impact of adverse …

This study joins the relatively modest literature examining the effects of political
disagreement in the family. We consider the effects of communication accommodation on …

Family communication is central to adjusted family functioning, which may be of special
relevance to limit the impact of divorce on children. The present study aims to examine …

ABSTRACT Using Family Communication Patterns (FCP) theory, this study examined the
frequency and comfort of young adults' political conversations with their parents as …

ABSTRACT As anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) movements descend on educational spaces,
it is necessary to self-reflect on investments in whiteness within our discipline. In this piece, I …

The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell,,) proposes that resilience is
cultivated via interactions and enacted through five processes. When individuals encounter …

This essay surveys articles from the Journal of Family Communication to make the argument
that our journal needs to feature more scholarship on families that heretofore have been …