"New Directions offers the best graduate/professional level
introduction to the field of interpersonal communication currently
available. It is compact, accessible, and authoritative." Mac
Parks, Journal of CommunicationPresenting today s cutting-edge
interpersonal communication research and reflecting on the changes
that have occurred over the past three decades, New Directions in
Interpersonal Communication Research is relevant and useful to a
broad audience, from advanced undergraduate students to the most
experienced researchers in the area. By telling the stories of
research, this volume s contributors avoid the dry, encyclopedic
style that is typical of chapters in handbooks. This new collection
showcases the vital, collaborative, and interdisciplinary
interpersonal communication research that is being conducted today.
Editors Sandi W. Smith and Steven R. Wilson bring together a
combination of established and newer scholars, as well as boundary
spanners those who are applying interpersonal theories and concepts
to areas such as family, health, intercultural, organizational, and
mediated communication to illustrate the wealth and breadth of this
area of study and research. Each chapter has clear applied value
with an emphasis on doing theoretically driven work that has
implications for social issues and problems. Key Features Offers a
broad overview of interpersonal communication as an area of study,
situating it historically, discussing advances in theory as well as
application, and including a broad range of metatheoretical
perspectives Traces evolving trends during the past 30 years that
have shaped the study of interpersonal communication and continue
to make it relevant, including issues about the larger society
(such as globalization and technology), about the communication
discipline (such as fractionalization), and about interpersonal
communication in particular (such as a focus on darker topics)
Includes topics that range from evolutionary and dialectical
perspectives on interpersonal communication, to uncertainty and
turbulence in interpersonal relationships, to comforting and
destructive patterns of communication Illustrates how interpersonal
communication research can be applied to such diverse topics as
information management and privacy, family adaptation to medical
diagnoses, and how writing blogs affects self-esteem Tells the
background stories of contributors research programs, including why
the topic matters, what they found, where their work is going, and
lessons learned
New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research is
intended as a core text for graduate and upper-level undergraduate
courses in Interpersonal Communication, Relational Communication,
and Communication Theory."
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