Critical Communication Theory

Power, Media, Gender, and Technology

By (author) Sue Curry Jansen

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Publication date:

19 November 2002

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742575684

Critical theorist, feminist, and censorship expert Sue Curry Jansen brings a fresh perspective to contemporary communication inquiry. Jansen engages two key questions at the heart of a critical politics of communication: What do we know? And how do we know it? The questions are not unique to our era, she notes, but our responses to them are our own. Looking at issues of globalization, science, politics, gender, social inequality, and other social formations that shape our world, this insightful book advocates a new agenda not only for communication research, but also for the writing_and language_that comes out of it.

Chapter 1 Acknowlegdments
Chapter 2
Chapter I: Silences and Whispers
Chapter 3 Introduction: Scholarly Writing is an Unnatural Act
Chapter 4 The Future is Not What it Used to Be
Chapter 5 Paris is Always More than Paris
Chapter 6
Chapter II: Impertinent Questions
Chapter 7 Is Information Gendered?
Chapter 8 Is Science a Man?
Chapter 9 What Was Artificial Intelligence?
Chapter 10
Chapter III: Post-Ideological Ideologies
Chapter 11 When the Center No Longer Holds: Repair and Rupture
Chapter 12 Football is More than a Game: Mascultinity, Sport and War
Chapter 13 International News: Masculinity, Paradox, and Possibilities
Chapter 14
Chapter IV: Coda
Chapter 15 A Fly on the Neck: 'Noble Discontent' as Duty of Critical Intellectuals
Chapter 16 Selected Bibliography

I've never been able to claim a book on communication theory was a good read, but this one is. Jansen's work is breezy, gutsy, and irreverent. It is a brilliant synthesis, comparison, and critique of critical communication theory, feminist theory, and contemporary society. Jansen deftly weaves current events in and among her analysis of the politics of knowledge, science, and communication research. Communication theory never looked?and read?like this before. It's about time....