Friendship and Technology: A Philosophical Approach to Computer-Mediated Communication

Seven communication skills turned into exercises you can practice: listening more carefully, saying what you mean, asking instead of assuming, and thanking people properly. Written for work, family and friendship alike.

Dennis Rivers

A full university course on relationships with an entire chapter devoted to friendship: how friendships start, the stages they pass through, and what makes them end. Comes with exercises and review questions.

Wrench, Punyanunt-Carter and Thweatt

An introduction to communication studies covering listening, verbal and nonverbal signals, perception and conflict. Solid groundwork if conversation feels harder than it should.

Jay Frasier and Dan Henry