Suchergebnisse

ch. 1. What is a relationship? -- ch. 2. Relationship metaphors and forms -- ch. 3. Uncertainty, information management, and disclosure -- ch. 4. Friendship -- ch. 5. Family communication -- ch. 6. The social self -- ch. 7. Gender and culture -- ch. 8. Relationship maintenance -- ch. 9. The dark-side : conflict, dissolution and other difficult conversations.

The following essay is a response to Laurel Richardson's collection of poems about marriage titled For Better or Worse. Reading the poems made the author consider how she talks, thinks, and teaches about marriage as a scholar who studies close relationships and how Richardson's poems can instruct students and others about the ideals, critiques, and realities of marriage. The author presents assignments and class discussions about marriage in two family communication and six relational communication courses she taught from a Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) perspective in 2020–2022 by showing the critical work and reflection that students did that ultimately reinforced dominant ideas about marriage in the US. The author includes critical reflections on Laurel Richardson's marriage poems for context and contrast.

The author uses poetic inquiry as CFIC (critical family and interpersonal communication) methodology to tell a story of cooking, cleaning, and caring for her elderly parents in the house she grew up in during the COVID-19 pandemic for 11 days in March 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns began in the US. The piece is organized as a series of daily menus, lyric reflections, and narrative poems about family stories, family values, and the enactment of supportive behaviors that detail how a family deals with political differences, identity negotiation, and crisis. The author asks: (1) What does it mean to be a good daughter, and how is this complicated by discourses about the meaning of marriage?; (2) How does one reconcile family differences in political views and hold true to family and personal values?; and (3) How does one decide what obligations to focus on during a moment of personal and international crisis? The use of poetic inquiry shows how public cultural discourses influence private experience.

In this interpretive autoethnography1 (Denzin, 2014), the author rewrites a Faculty Senate survey from her university on Ohio HB 48, a bill that allows licensed individuals to conceal and carry guns in public places such as schools and day care centers. The use of personal narrative and satire highlights the dialectic of violence as natural aggression versus violence as a learned and lauded cultural behavior.

In a narrative poem, the author demonstrates her writing practice and the everyday work and life challenges to that practice. The poet suggests, through example, strategies for readers to begin and maintain their writing practices.

Through an autoethnographic poetry manifesto, the author makes the case for poetry as political, poetry as feminist practice, poetry as social research and autoethnography, poetry as the personal that becomes the universal, and poetry as visionary activism. The use of personal poetry engages the political power of poetry to present embodied, nuanced, and myriad scenes of marginalized and stigmatized identities.

Through personal narrative, the author shows the experience of new motherhood by juxtaposing a social science relationship researcher role with middle-class cultural expectations of mothers. Autoethnographic scenes of the exhaustion of juggling expanding roles and cultural advice about what being a good mommy means with anxiety about being a bad mother help the author question (spank) entrenched mommy myths. The author uses poetic inquiry and personal narrative as forms to acknowledge, examine, and potentially alter the complex reality that although a mom might like and love her child, she might be anxious and abhor the prescribed role of being mommy.

"We always tell students that "You need to be interested in people's stories if you want to do qualitative research." You can't fake that part. This is actually how Sandra became curious about qualitative research methods; she has always been intrigued by people and their lives. It was in graduate school during a qualitative research methods class that she realized her interest in people's stories was best approached using qualitative research. Qualitative research is a complex confluence of methods for empirical observation of meanings and materials situated within particular sites or texts, which cuts across multiple paradigmatic approaches to the study of communication and media. We begin with this definition of qualitative research as it is foundational to our approach to and teaching of qualitative methods"--

In this collaborative autoethnography, we unmask our experiences with sexual assault and harassment in academic contexts through the use of a note format. We describe moments characterized by shame and anger, as well as moments of disciplining when we called out untoward behavior. We call attention to bystanders by describing instances of sexual harassment and assault in an article that will be read primarily by academics. This represents a feminist response to sexual harassment and assault in the academy in the hopes of challenging the normalized behavior.