Dr. Cary Horvath, assistant professor of communication studies at Westminster College, will have her research, "Lazy Leisure: A Qualitative Investigation of the Relational Uses of Television in Marriage," published in in the summer issue of Communication Quarterly.

Horvath and co-author, M. O. Finucane, conducted personal interviews with married couples to determine how spouses use television together, and what effect coviewing might have on their relationships. They found that couples consider coviewing to be an interactive activity, even when watching together in silence, and considered it a convenient recreation. Using television for relationship maintenance and solidarity emerged as the most pervasive reasons to coview.

Horvath earned her undergraduate degree from Youngstown State University, and her master's and Ph.D. from Kent State University. She was chosen as "Who's Who Among Teachers," and has written and had published numerous articles regarding her research on various areas of communications.