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“Add up all my Black”: understanding race and genetic ancestry through critical interpersonal and family communication “把我所有的黑人加起来”：通过批判性的人际和家庭沟通了解种族和遗传祖先

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1961851

Charnell Peters

引用次数: 2

Beyond the hammer: a critical turn for interpersonal and family communication studies 锤子之外：人际和家庭沟通研究的关键转折

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1969424

J. Manning, Katherine J. Denker

引用次数: 5

Theorizing disenfranchisement as a communicative process 将剥夺公民权理论化为一个交流过程

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1965194

E. Hintz, Steven R. Wilson

引用次数: 8

Distant yet existent: actor–network theory and the communicative constitution of functionally estranged family relationships 遥远而存在：行动者网络理论与功能性隔阂家庭关系的交际构成

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1966082

Jordan Allen, Nicole T. Allen

引用次数: 2

The unremarked optimum: whiteness, optimization, and control in the database revolution 不引人注意的优化：数据库革命中的白度、优化和控制

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1934521

Nikki Stevens, A. Hoffmann, Sarah Florini

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引用次数: 4

Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps 工程文化:音乐、游戏和应用程序的优化逻辑

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1934522

J. Morris, R. Prey, D. Nieborg

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引用次数: 7

“Optimize user experience”: optimization techniques and the simulation of life, from the model to the algorithm “优化用户体验”:优化技术与模拟生活，从模型到算法

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1934523

R. Uliasz

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引用次数: 0

The ambivalent assemblages of sleep optimization 睡眠优化的矛盾组合

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1934520

B. Lyall

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引用次数: 5

Introduction: optimization and its discontents 简介:优化及其不满

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1936143

F. McKelvey, Joshua Neves

引用次数: 8

Interlude II 间歇II

Review of Communication Pub Date : 2021-02-18 DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2147019

Michael Lechuga, J. Ackerman

引用次数: 1