ABSTRACT
Although a few remarkable scholars undertake their work with a decades-long perspective that illuminates a grand insight into communication, most of us have a different working orientation. We find an interesting question, pursue it, and follow the evidence wherever it leads, letting one study frame the next. We do what Kuhn (1970) called normal science. Once in a while, one of us will write a paper that catches a topic on the sweet part of the bat, but usually, like slow base runners, we just move from station to station. This scholarly reality makes it important to undertake periodic stock taking, to look back and to try to glimpse the immediate future. This joint venture is of that sort.
