Postmodernism? The very word, at first glance, seems out of place in a Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology. But a closer look belies the claim. First attempts to come to grips with a definition of postmodernism are apt to lead to chaos. Postmodernism would seem to be a jargonistic term for anything new. To some, postmodernism should mean "after modernism." But if modernism means "contemporary," "now" or "current," then it would appear to be a contradiction of terms to have an "after-now," or "after-the-current-time," unless of course, one means "future." But postmodernism does not mean future.