Mei-Chen Lin's Recent Scholarship
Mei-Chen Lin's Recent Scholarship
Recent Publications
Baym, N. K., Kunkel, A., Zhang, Y. B., Lin, M.-C., & Ledbetter, A. (in press). Satisfaction and closeness in relationships: Do sex, relationship type, and communication medium make a difference? Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Soliz, J. Lin, M.-C., Anderson, K., & Harwood, J. (2005). Communication in grandparent-grandchild relationships. In K. Floyd, & M. Mormon (Eds.), Understudied relationship, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Harwood, J., Soliz, J., & Lin, M.-C. (2006). Communication accommodation theory: An intergroup approach to family relationships. In D. Braithwaite & L. A. Baxter (Eds.), Engaging theories in family communication: Multiple perspectives (pp. 19-34), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Zhang, Y. B., Lin, M.-C., Nonaka, A., & Boem, K. (2005). Chinese values in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and U.S.: A study on cross-cultural comparison. Communication Research Report, 22, 107-115.
Lin, M.-C., Hummert, M. L., & Harwood, J. (2004). Age identity representation in on-line discourse. Journal of Aging Studies, 18(3), 261-274.
Lin, M.-C., Zhang, Y. B. & Harwood, J. (2004). Taiwanese younger adults’ intergenerational communication schemas, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 19, 321-342.
Baym, N. K., Zhang, Y. B., & Lin, M.-C. (2004). Social interaction across media: Interpersonal communication on the internet, face-to-face and the telephone. New Media and Society, 16(2), 41-60.
Lin, M.-C. & Harwood, J. (2003). Accommodation predictors of grandparent-grandchild relational solidarity in Taiwan. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20(4), 537-563.
Under Review
Giles, H., Hajek, C., Barker, V., Lin, M.-C., Zhang, Y. B., Hummert, M. L., & Anderson, M. C. Applied communicative dimensions of police-civilian interaction. In A. Weatherall, B. Watson, & C. Gallois (Eds.), The social psychology of language and discourse. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lin, M.-C., Hummert, M. L., & Harwood, J. Intergenerational communication schemas in US and Taiwan: Associations between schematic components. Human Communication Research.
Lin, M. C., & Zhang, Y. B. (under review). Taiwanese older adults’ perspectives of aging and communication with old-age peers and the younger people. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
Zhang, Y. B., & Lin, M.-C. Initiating factors of intergenerational conflict from American young people’s perspectives. Journal of Social and Personal Relationship.
Research in Progress
Lin, M.-C. (in preparation for grant submission). Intergenerational communication and age stereotypes: Face-to-face and online communication.
Lin, M.-C., Hummert, M. L., & Harwood, J. (in preparation). Intergenerational communication schemas in US and Taiwan: stereotypes and communication-related variables.
Professional Papers
Lin, M.-C. (2005, November). Grandparent-Grandchild communication: Highlight research on an understudied family relationship [Discussion panel at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA.
Lin, M.-C., & Zhang, Y. B. (2005, November). Intergenerational communication: An online context. Paper will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA.
Baym, N., Kunkel, A., Zhang, Y. B., Lin, M.-C., & Ledbetter, A. (2005, November).Relational quality and media use in interpersonal relationship [Top 3 paper –- Human communication and technology division]. Paper will be presented the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA.
Lin, M.-C., Zhang, Y. B., & Harwood, J. (2004, November). Older people’s cognitive representation of intergenerational communication in Taiwan. Paperwill be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Zhang, Y. B. & Lin, M-C. (2004, July). Initiating factors of intergenerational conflict: Young adults’ written accounts. Paper presented in the 9th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, University Park, PA.