Critical Communication Theory
Power, Media, Gender, and Technology
Published on 19. November 2002
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-7425-2372-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 DakotaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-2372-2 (9780742523722)
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Person
Sue Curry Jansen is professor of communication at Muhlenberg College.
Content
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