CULTURE CODES OF INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION

Taiwanese young adults' intergenerational communication schemas.

This study examined intergenerational communication schemas by investigating young adults' cognitive representations of communication with older adults in Taiwan. Forty-one Taiwanese college students described conversations with an older adult in response to a variety of interviewer prompts. Transcripts were read and content analyzed by the first two authors. To capture the characteristics of t...

The ‘Keep In Touch’ Intergenerational Communication System

In this paper, we briefly describe the design and implementation of the “Keep in Touch” (KiT) intergenerational communications system. The KiT system is a communications appliance aimed to support low-overhead, easy to use inter-household messaging and conferencing between family members and close friends. We discuss the original audio-messaging implementation of KiT and extensions to photo mes...

"Culture" and the intergenerational transmission of poverty: the prevention paradox.

Many U.S. policymakers support changing the "culture" of poor parents to encourage marriage, work, and religion as a means to end the intergenerational transmission of poverty. In this article Jens Ludwig and Susan Mayer review and evaluate research on how parental work, marriage, and religion affect children's socioeconomic status as adults, as well as on the likelihood that changing these ind...

The Grandparent–Grandchild Relationship Implications for Models of Intergenerational Communication

We report two studies which examine the age stereotypes in interactions model of intergenerational communication. We investigate whether stereotyping processes mediate the effects of various predictors on communication outcomes. Support emerges for the mediating role of stereotyping. The studies also examine relational factors fi nding support for the argument that relational factors deserve mo...

How Communication Shapes Culture