This volume brings together leading scholars grappling with questions about the implications of media transformations for public life. With chapters exploring data collection, journalism, digital engagement, and the role of scholars, this book is a valuable resource to students and researchers across political science and communication studies.

Leading scholars of media and public life grapple with how to make sense of major transformations rocking media and politics.

'What does scholarly engagement look like in current times? Bringing together leading media scholars of journalism, politics and activism, this book offers a pathway to making sense of academe in today's difficult world. Engaging with critical issues like inclusion, difference, freedom, engagement, normativity, adaptation and datafication, the book demonstrates that scholars must lead the way in embracing them more fully if public life is to improve.' Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania