The advances and incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in
everyday family life has earned a place of prominence in the research field. This paper …

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

The collapsing of social contexts together has emerged as an important topic with the rise of
social media that so often blurs the public and private, professional and personal, and the …

This article argues that a distinctive aspect of computer-mediated communication (CMC) is
the way it can make communication visible to others in ways that were previously …

The following book presents my attempt to rationalize one major argument: in order to
understand people's privacy perceptions and behaviors, we need to adopt a situational …

Our basic premise remains the same—communication processes create and reflect family
systems and family identity. Relying on a range of theoretical perspectives, we examine the …

Social media has changed the ways we create and consume information, as well as the
ways we interact with others. In the current review, findings from the existing literature on …

Issues of disclosure and privacy management are important to the development and
maintenance of interpersonal relationships. We discuss communication privacy …

Building upon the communication privacy management theory, the research reveals the
effect of self-disclosure on the identified mechanisms of perceived emotional value …

Semi-structured individual interviews with 14 Estonian mothers and their children (aged 9–
13 years) pairs who had 'friended'each other on Facebook were carried out to study pre …