Sue Curry Jansen is professor of communication at Muhlenberg College.

Looking at issues of globalization, science, politics, gender, etc. this book advocates a new agenda not only for communication research, but also for the writing that comes out of it.

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