Patterns of communication channel use in the maintenance of long‐distance relationships

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Absence Makes the Communication Grow Fonder: Geographic Separation, Interpersonal Media, and Intimacy in Dating Relationships (2013, background): “Dainton and Aylor (2002), for example, have shown that LD couples use different maintenance strategies in different interpersonal media.”
`IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication (2009, methodology): “Likewise, participants in Dainton and Aylor’s (2002a) study examining channel use in longdistance relationships reported a positive correlation between Internet use 298 Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 26(2–3)”
Idealization, reunions, and stability in long-distance dating relationships (2007, background): “Because partners in LDDRs enact their relationships via mediated communication forms proportionately more so than do GCDR partners (Dainton & Aylor, 2002), LDDR partners may engage in more impression management.”
Relational Maintenance during Military Deployment: Perspectives of Wives of Deployed US Soldiers (2010, background): “Still, several writers have commented how one relational context*longdistance relationships*remains especially understudied (Aylor, 2003; Dainton & Aylor, 2002; Stafford, 2005).”