Identification of Relationship Maintenance in Chinese Muslim Marriages in Film “Bidadari Mencari Sayap”

Keragaman budaya memang pada dasarnya amat menarik untuk dibahas dan dipahami lebih dalam. Tidak hanya dapat dilihat melalui peninggalan-peninggalan yang bersejarah, beragam kebudayaan juga kini dapat dikreasikan menjadi sebuah film yang disaksikan oleh banyak orang. Bidadari Mencari Sayap merupakan salah satu film yang ditayangkan pada side streams platform yakni Disney+. Film Bidadari Mencari Sayap yang resmi tayang pada 02 Oktober 2020 memiliki kisah pernikahan yang amat kompleks. Film ini mengisahkan kisah rumah tangga yang terjadi antara pasangan suami istri muslim dan Tionghoa Mualaf. Menggunakan Metode Kualitatif dan paradigma intrepretatif. Dalam menganalisis film Bidadari Mencari Sayap peneliti akan menggunakan relational maintenance dari Laura Stanford dan juga Canary yang memiliki sebanyak sepuluh elemen dalam menjaga hubungan yaitu positivity, openness, assurances, sharing task, social network, join activities, mediated communication, avoidance, antisocial dan humor dielaborasikan dengan grand syntagmatic dari Semiotika Christian Metz yaitu autonomous shot, the parallel syntagm, the bracketing syntagm, the descriptive syntagm, the alternating syntagm, the scene, the episodic sequence, ordinary sequence. Hasil dari penelitian yang dilakukan ini mendapati bahwa dalam film Bidadari Mencari Sayap menerapkan sebanyak delapan dari sepuluh elemen relational maintenance theories yang menghasilkan sebanyak empat sintagma dan juga sebanyak tiga autonomous shot dengan tipe yang beragam yakni subjective insert, explanatory insert dan juga displaced diegetic.

Relational maintenance, collectivism, and coping strategies among Black populations during COVID-19

The current study, adopting community resilience and social creativity, explores Black individuals’ relational maintenance and collectivist strategies employed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of 410 Black adults across the United States answered open-ended web-based survey questions about identifiable shifts in relational dynamics and examples of mutual support exhibited among community members amid COVID-19. Findings include individuals implementation of media technologies to maintain communication and social support, the groups’ concentrated efforts toward providing health and wellness-based information, increased communal interaction, and the redistribution of monetary donations and volunteerism to support organizations promoting gender and racial equity. Outcomes demonstrate that Black populations embrace collectivist-orientated tendencies as a means of community resilience, extending the community resilience framework amid the ongoing crisis and absent of specific geographic location.

Relational Communication and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Consensually nonmonogamous (CNM) relationships include a variety of relational types that allow for multiple sexual or romantic partners. Although many CNM dynamics occur, the most commonly addressed by both research and popular media include swinging relationships, open relationships, and polyamorous relationships. Many people practice some form of CNM at some point in time, with some estimates suggesting approximately one in five people will be involved in some kind of CNM relational dynamic at some point in their lifetime. At the core of their relational practices, many CNM relationships center communication, openness, and honesty. Despite this, CNM relationships have received less attention from communication researchers comparative to other social science disciplines. CNM relational practices are independent of other relational identities, but may intersect with other identities such as sexual orientation or those who practice kink or bondage, domination, and sadomasochism. The interdisciplinary research literature on relational communication and CNM examines relational maintenance behaviors in CNM relationships, primarily polyamorous relationships, relational communication and jealousy in multiple partner dynamics, polyamorous identity disclosure, and intercultural communication in polyamorous communities. CNM relational communication practices emphasize relational maintenance behavior in multiple-partner dynamics and how jealousy may be communicatively managed in CNM relationships.

Toward a Theoretical Framework of Relational Maintenance in Computer-Mediated Communication

This article addresses the need for theoretical frameworks from which to advance the study of interpersonal relational maintenance in computer-mediated communication (CMC). We suggest one way to satisfy this need is to extend and adapt extant theories of offline relational maintenance to mediated interactions by addressing how CMC is likely integrated to sustain the underlying processes of human interaction in newer channels. Social penetration theory (SPT) is used to illustrate the process proposed. The building blocks of SPT—self-disclosure, reciprocal exchange, and the effect of environmental and situational contexts on interpersonal interactions—are still considered vital in sustaining relationships, even online. By considering how these components are affected by the idiosyncrasies of computer mediation, this work provides a path toward consistent, theoretically-driven research regarding the maintenance of relationships via CMC, and also exemplifies how scholars may forge additional avenues for such research.

Relational surprise experiences as a unique form of relational maintenance

This study presents an initial exploration and conceptualization of relational surprise experiences (RSEs) as communication phenomenon involving strategic relational maintenance behaviors with potential for positive and negative outcomes. University students in the Southeastern United States (N = 203) described a RSE that occurred with a close relational partner (romantic partner, friend, or family member), explained how deception was used to achieve the surprise, and reported relational benefits and drawbacks in an online survey. Seven types of RSEs were reported including gifts, events, visits, and destinations. Responses revealed that people considered surprises as relationally beneficial with minimal drawbacks. Although over one-third of the participants described their partner’s pants perceived the surprise as a violation of relational rules. Some participants reported both benefits and drawbacks to RSEs, thereby illuminating a nuance for traditional relational maintenance typologies. This study establishes a path to explore implications of RSEs for individual and relational satisfaction, happiness, and well-being.