Communication and «The Good Life»

Hua Wang (PhD, University of Southern California) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Content: Stacey Spiegel/Heli Tuomi Carlile: In Search of the Good Life – Charles M. Ess: The Good Life: Selfhood and Virtue Ethics in the Digital Age – Rich Ling: Eudaimonia: Mobile Communication and Social Flourishing – Mary Beth Oliver/Julia K. Woolley: Meaningfulness and Entertainment: Fiction and Reality in the Land of Evolving Technologies – Peng Hwa Ang: Media Policy for Happiness: A Case Study of Bhutan – Leo W. Jeffres/Kimberly A. Neuendorf/David Atkin: Communication and Perceptions of the Quality of Life – Allison Eden/Tilo Hartmann/Leonard Reinecke: Tuning in versus Zoning out: The Role of Ego Depletion in Selective Exposure to Challenging Media – Jian Raymond Rui/Michael A. Stefanone: The Secret to Happiness: Social Capital, Trait Self-Esteem, and Subjective Well-Being – Diana Mok/Barry Wellman/Dimitrina Dimitrova: Modeling Communication in a Research Network: Implications for the Good Networked Life – Robert LaRose/Saleem Alhabash/Mengtian Jiang/Ruth Shillair/Hsin-yi Sandy Tsai/Shelia R. Cotton/Nora J. Rifon: Communicating Online Safety: Protecting Our Good Life on the Net – Andreas Hepp/Peter Lunt, Maren Hartmann: Communicative Figurations of the Good Life: Ambivalences of the Mediatization of Homelessness and Transnational Migrant Families – Meryl Alper/Elizabeth Ellcessor/Katie Ellis/Gerard Michael Goggin: Reimagining the Good Life with Disability: Communication, New Technology, and Humane Connections – Susan B. Kretchmer/Joy Pierce/Laura Robinson: The 20th Anniversary of the Digital Divide: Challenges and Opportunities for Communication and the Good Life – Henri Lipmanowicz/Arvind Singhal/Keith McCandless/Hua Wang: Liberating Structures: Engaging Everyone to Build a Good Life Together.