A Communication Perspective on the Military

Erin Sahlstein Parcell (PhD., The University of Iowa) is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of over thirty chapters and articles. Her work has appeared in journals such as Communication Monographs, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Western Journal of Communication, and Journal of Health Communication. Lynne M. Webb (PhD, University of Oregon) is Professor of Communication at Florida International University. She is the author of over seventy essays and two previously published edited volumes. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, Health Communication, and the Journal of Family Communication. She is a past president of the Southern States Communication Association.

Contents: Robert L. Ivie: Telling the Stories of the War State – Erin Sahlstein Parcell: Research at the Intersections of the Military and Communication: A Preview and Review – Katheryn C. Maguire: Military Family Communication: A Review and Synthesis of the Research Related to Wartime Deployment – Leanne K. Knobloch/Jennifer A. Theiss/Erin C. Wehrman: Communication of Military Couples During Deployment: Topic Avoidance and Relational Uncertainty – Candee B. Berck/Lynne M. Webb: Enacting Resistance: Military Parents’ Reports of Successful Communication With Children During Deployment – Emily M. Cramer/Kelly E. Tenzek/Mike Allen: Spirituality, Social Support, and the Communicative Role of the Chaplain in Veteran Populations – Andrew C. High/Victoria Jennings-Kelsall/Denise H. Solomon/Amy D. Marshall: Military Families Online: Seeking and Providing Support Through Internet Discussion Boards – Michelle Still Mehta/Jane Jorgenson: Work-family Predicaments of Air Force Wives: A Sensemaking Perspective – Sarah Symonds LeBlanc/Loreen N. Olson: Communicating Identity: The Impact of Veterans’ Identity Negotiation on Family Communication – Roger Stahl: Media and the Military: The Full Spectrum? – Kenneth S. Sexton: The «Experiment» of the Tuskegee Airmen as Reported in Two Competing African-American Newspapers, 1940-1944 – Paul Achter: Reluctant Conquests: Media Events and the End of the Iraq War – John W. Howard, III/Laura C. Prividera: Nationalism and Soldiers’ Health: Media Framing of Soldiers’ Returns From Deployments – Kevin Coe: Honoring the Dead, Supporting the War: Media Eulogies and the Possibilities of Patriotic Discourse – Michel M. Haigh/Michael Pfau: Examining the Content of Milblogs and Their Influence on Public Support for War – Lisa E. Silvestri: Always on Duty: Managing U.S. Marines on Social Media – Gordon R. Mitchell: Necessity and Possibility in Military Rhetoric – Tracey Quigley Holden: Riding an American Nightmare: Generals Moseley and MacArthur, Men on Horseback – Anne Gerbensky-Kerber/Benjamin R. Bates: Freedom From Fat Is Freedom to Fight: A Foucauldian Reading of Mission: Readiness’ Rhetoric – Derek Foster: The War of Words Commemorating Canada’s War Dead: Rhetoric and the «Highway of Heroes» – Stephen A. Klien: Cinematic Simulacra and the Prospect for Public Agency: Constructing the Citizen-Soldier in Post-9/11 War Films – Bryan T. Walsh: Forgetting Histories of Toxic Military Violence: The Case of the Kelly Air Force Base – Anna M. (Amy) Young/Pauline Kaurin: The Myth of the Warrior: Rhetorics of Masculinity and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.