Introduction / Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
Media in the contemporary age. Information and democracy : the weakening of social democracy / Frank Webster
The transformation of political communication / Ralph Negrine and Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
What does information technology imply for media effects research? / Shanto Iyengar
Infotainment Inc. : the ascent of a global ideology / Daya Kishan Thussu
Emotions in the media and the mediatization of traumas / Nicos Demertzis
Media, migrations and transnational cultures / Tristan Mattelart
Communication in the digital era. From mass to networked communication / Gustavo Cardoso
Consumer culture and new media : commodity fetishism in the Digital Era / Matthew McAllister
How does the Internet change journalistic investigation and how should communication science deal with this issue? / Marcel Machill and Markus Beiler
Philosophical linkages between public journalism and citizen journalism / Linda Steiner and Jessica Roberts
Toward a new(er) sociability : uses, gratifications, and social capital on Facebook / Zizi Papacharissi and Andrew Mendelson
Minding the digital gap : why understanding digital inequality matters / Eszter Hargittai.
