Part I: Publicness and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age

1. Publicness–Privateness: The Liquefaction of “The Great Dichotomy” Slavko Splichal

2. Debunking Deference: The Delusions of Unmediated Reality in the Contemporary Public Sphere Laurence Kaufmann

3. Media, Knowledge and Trust: The Deepening Epistemic Crisis of Democracy Peter Dahlgren

4. Fake Democracy: The Limits of Public Sphere Theory Natalie Fenton

5. Visibility and the Public Sphere: A Normative Conceptualisation Lincoln Dahlberg

6. Refeudalisation Revisited: The Destruction of Deliberative Democracy Graham Murdock

7. Standpoint, Mediation and the Working-Class Public Sphere Dana L. Cloud

8. Dissonant and Disconnected Public Spheres as Challenge for Political Communication Research Barbara Pfetsch

9. A Youth-Driven Virtual Civic Public Sphere for the Arab World Mohammad Ayish

10. Family Feud: Who’s Still Fighting about Dewey and Lippmann? Lana F. Rakow

Part II: Democracy and the Crisis of Public Communication

11. The Crisis of Public Communication, 1995–2017 Jay G. Blumler

12. Democracy and the Internet: A Retrospective Charles Ess

13. Post-Globalisation Terry Flew

14. Modern Political Communication and Web 2.0 in Representative Democracies Petros Iosifidis and Mark Wheeler

15. Revisiting Digital News Audiences with a Political Magnifying Glass Josiane Jouët

16. Translation as Politics Barbara Cassin

17. The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse Philippe-Joseph Salazar

18. Post-Communism, Democratisation and the Media: (Nearly) Thirty Years On Colin Sparks

19. Putin’s Slangy Newspeak as a Paradox of His Public Communication Tatiana Weiser

20. Digital Media, Contentious Politics and Party Systems in Italy and Spain Víctor Sampedro and Lorenzo Mosca

21. The Detached Observer: On a Necessary Change to the Self-Image of Journalists in the Digital World Horst Pöttker

Part III: Communication and Media Research in Scientific and Social Practice

22. The Double Hermeneutics of Communication Research Klaus Bruhn Jensen

23. Fast-Capitalist Veils from Communication Theory for “The Public” and Its “Discourse” Ed McLuskie

24. Reframing the Paradox of Pluralism as a Communication Problem Robert T. Craig

25. New Technologies, Old Questions: The Enduring Issues of Communications Research Peter Golding

26. A Critical Perspective on the Post-Internet World Vincent Mosco

27. Communication Research: Resignation or Optimism? Cees Hamelink

28. On Human Communication Hamid Mowlana

29. Studying Political Economies of Communication in the Twenty-First Century Janet Wasko

30. Expanding the Epistemological Horizon: Institutionalised Visual Knowledge and Human Rights Sandra Ristovska

31. Researching Fake News: A Selective Examination of Empirical Studies Nicholas W. Jankowski

32. Gendering Media Policy Research and Communication Governance Claudia Padovani