Critical Communication Theory: Power, Media, Gender, and Technology / Edition 1

by Sue Curry Jansen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742523739
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/11/2002
Series:	Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Sue Curry Jansen is professor of communication at Muhlenberg College.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowlegdments Part 2 Part 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 Part 6 Part II: Impertinent Questions Chapter 7 Is Information Gendered? Chapter 8 Is Science a Man? Chapter 9 What Was Artificial Intelligence? Part 10 Part 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 Part 14 Part IV: Coda Chapter 15 A Fly on the Neck: 'Noble Discontent' as Duty of Critical Intellectuals Chapter 16 Selected Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

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.

Lana F. Rakow

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.--Lana F. Rakow, University of North Dakota

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