... Third, our use of propaganda expands the area's datasets. Historically, family communication scholars have demonstrated openness to novel data sets, including: surveys (e.g., Gettings & McNallie, 2021), interviews (e.g., Barney & Yoshimura, 2021), focus groups (e.g., Koenig Kellas & Suter, 2012), observations (e.g., Elias et al., 2021), online narratives (e.g., Cooper, 2021), national surveys (e.g., Eveland & Nathanson, 2020), experiments (e.g., Odenweller et al., 2020), case studies (e.g., Tan & Liu, 2019), ethnographic materials (e.g., Pangborn, 2019), autoethnographic materials (e.g., Berry & Adams, 2016), and media (e.g., Chattopadhyay, 2019). However, prior to this study, propaganda had not been studied in family communication. ...