Maryl R. McGinley is associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.Jill K. Burk is associate teaching professor and program chair of the communication arts and sciences program at Pennsylvania State University, Berks.Joel S. Ward is associate professor of communication at Geneva College.

“Communicating with Our Families invites us into the rich, variegated communication within family life—the everyday wonders and worries we experience in our age of intense technological mediation amid the enduring realities of eating, working, sleeping, and talking together close at hand.”

• Section I: ContinuityChapter 1: Zooming through Change: The Role of Communication Technologies in Intergenerational Family Transitions during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Elizabeth B. JonesChapter 2: Narrative Wisdom: Implications from Literature for Family Communication Technology – Janie Harden Fritz Chapter 3: Rhetorical Constructions of the Reset: Video Games and Family Connections – Paul Lucas Chapter 4: The Role of Communication and Information Technology in Health Information Seeking – Patty Wharton-MichaelChapter 5: With Great Power Comes Ethical Communication: Technology, Superheroes, and Family Conversations in Communication Ethics – Christina L. McDowell Marinchak and Tyrell J. Stewart-HarrisSection II: InterruptionChapter 6: Cellular Television and the Reallocation of Familiar Attention – Joel S. WardChapter 7: Formative Media Consumption: Utilizing Media as Grammatical Foundations of Families – Anthony M. WachsChapter 8: Motherhood and Loneliness: The Social Media D

Maryl R. McGinley is associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.Jill K. Burk is associate teaching professor and program chair of the communication arts and sciences program at Pennsylvania State University, Berks.Joel S. Ward is associate professor of communication at Geneva College.

“Communicating with Our Families invites us into the rich, variegated communication within family life—the everyday wonders and worries we experience in our age of intense technological mediation amid the enduring realities of eating, working, sleeping, and talking together close at hand.”

• Section I: ContinuityChapter 1: Zooming through Change: The Role of Communication Technologies in Intergenerational Family Transitions during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Elizabeth B. JonesChapter 2: Narrative Wisdom: Implications from Literature for Family Communication Technology – Janie Harden Fritz Chapter 3: Rhetorical Constructions of the Reset: Video Games and Family Connections – Paul Lucas Chapter 4: The Role of Communication and Information Technology in Health Information Seeking – Patty Wharton-MichaelChapter 5: With Great Power Comes Ethical Communication: Technology, Superheroes, and Family Conversations in Communication Ethics – Christina L. McDowell Marinchak and Tyrell J. Stewart-HarrisSection II: InterruptionChapter 6: Cellular Television and the Reallocation of Familiar Attention – Joel S. WardChapter 7: Formative Media Consumption: Utilizing Media as Grammatical Foundations of Families – Anthony M. WachsChapter 8: Motherhood and Loneliness: The Social Media D