The Routledge Handbook of Relational and Computer-Mediated Communication

PART I: Overview  

1. Relational Communication in Computer-Mediated Environments: A Broad Historical, Theoretical, and Developmental Overview  

Artemio Ramirez, Jr., Erin M. Sumner, Jeffrey A. Hall, and Bree McEwan

PART II: Foundational Theories and Conceptual Approaches  

2. Communicate Bond Belong Theory  

Natalie Pennington and Jess Dominguez

3. Affordances Approach  

Jesse Fox

4. The State and Future of Warranting Theory: Connecting Offline and Offline Selves in Relationships  

Caleb T. Carr

5. Social Constructivist Approaches to Relational and Computer-Mediated Communication  

Lara Wolfers, Anisha Arenz, and Rinaldo Kühne

6. Communicative Interdependence Perspective  

John P. Caughlin, David J. Roaché, M. McKenzie Hurley, and Emily A. Mendelson

7. Approaches to Relational Channel Selection  

Erin K. Ruppel, Lucas J. Youngvorst, and Matthew Moon

PART III: Processes and Functions  

8. Self-Disclosure  

Sonja Utz

9. Phatic and Graphical Nonverbal Cues in Computer-Mediated Communication: From Lightweight to Purposeful  

Rebecca A. Hayes and Caleb T. Carr

10. Social Support  

Yanmengqian Zhou, Lucas Youngvorst, and Andrew C. High

11. The Reality of Influence: From Human to Artificial  

Christopher J. Carpenter and David Westerman

12. Refining the Modality Switching Perspective: Modality Switching and Modality Weaving  

Erin M. Sumner, Bree McEwan, and Artemio Ramirez, Jr.

13. Mediated Relationship Maintenance  

Stephanie Tom Tong and Zaynab Yusuf

14. Relational Termination and Breakups  

Nicholas Brody, Leah Lefebvre, and Kate Blackburn

15. Impression Management in Computer-Mediated Communication  

Brandon Van der Heide, David M. Markowitz, Rui Zhu, and Sarah M. Forsyth

16. Identity Expression and Exploration in Online Spaces  

Kathryn D. Coduto and Jessica R. Frampton

17. Digital Parasocial Interactions and Relationships  

Jessica Zier and Nathan Walter

18. Relationships with Social Robots  

Marco Dehnert

PART IV: Contexts and Settings  

19. Friendship and Computer-Mediated Communication  

Jeffrey A. Hall

20. Military Families and Communication Technologies: Navigating Transitions and Sustaining Connections

Steven R. Wilson

21. Distant Digital Connections: Technology, Relational Maintenance, and Varying Forms of Geographic Separation  

Andy J. Merolla

22. Online Dating Relationships  

Liesel L. Sharabi, Cassandra Alexopoulos, and Mehek Dhillon

23. Gaming Communities  

Jorge Peña and Saba Kolahchian

24. Computer-Mediated Communication and the LGBTQ+ Community  

Brandon Miller

25. Studying CMC in the Context of Poverty: Relationships, Resources, and Identity  

Will Marler

26. Transnational Marginalized Migrants’ Relational CMC Practice: A Thematic Review  

Jiefan Zhang and Arul Chib

27. Bringing People Closer Together?: Theorizing How Algorithms Influence Interpersonal Communication Processes and Personal Relationships  

Samuel Hardman Taylor and Mina Choi

PART V: Challenges  

28. Bystander Intervention in Online Harassment and Cyberbullying  

Natalie N. Bazarova and Julia A. Sebastien

29. Mediated Transgressions  

Jennifer L. Bevan

30. Relational Data and Privacy  

Phillipp K. Masur

31. Trust and Deception in Mediated Close Relationships  

Brianna Lane and Norah E. Dunbar

32. Digital Stress: Theoretical Conceptualizations, Empirical Findings, and Tasks for Future Research  

Leonard Reinecke, Frank M. Schneider, and Alicia Gilbert

Biography

Artemio Ramirez, Jr. is a Professor of Communication and Technology in the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications at the University of South Florida, USA. 

Erin M. Sumner is a Professor of Human Communication at Trinity University, USA. 

Bree McEwan is Professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, and Information Technology, Director of the McEwan Mediated Communication Lab, and Associate Director for the Data Science Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada. 

Jeffrey A. Hall is a Professor and the Chair in the Department of Communication Studies and Director of the Relationships and Technology Lab at the University of Kansas, USA.