Critical Communication Theory

Sue Curry Jansen is professor of communication at Muhlenberg College.

• Chapter 1 AcknowlegdmentsPart 2 Part I: Silences and WhispersChapter 3 Introduction: Scholarly Writing is an Unnatural ActChapter 4 The Future is Not What it Used to BeChapter 5 Paris is Always More than ParisPart 6 Part II: Impertinent QuestionsChapter 7 Is Information Gendered?Chapter 8 Is Science a Man?Chapter 9 What Was Artificial Intelligence?Part 10 Part III: Post-Ideological IdeologiesChapter 11 When the Center No Longer Holds: Repair and RuptureChapter 12 Football is More than a Game: Mascultinity, Sport and WarChapter 13 International News: Masculinity, Paradox, and PossibilitiesPart 14 Part IV: CodaChapter 15 A Fly on the Neck: 'Noble Discontent' as Duty of Critical IntellectualsChapter 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.