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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- Section One: The crisis of public communication' in historical perspective.- 2. Reprint of the following journal article which we will obtain permission to publish: Blumler, J.G. and Coleman, S., 2015. Democracy and the mediarevisited. Javnost-The Public, 22(2), pp.111-128.- 3. Prof. W. Russell Neuman, NYU Steinhardt: Cycles of Crisis: The Current Condition of the Democratic Public Sphere.- 4. Prof. Barbara Pfetsch, Freie Universität Berlin: Fluid Public Spheres, Noisy Networks and Political Polarization Safeguards against the threats of democratic public communication.- Section Two: Challenges in the fourth age' of political communication.- 5. Prof. Paul D'Angelo and Prof. Erik P. Bucy, Texas Tech University: The Crisis of a Denigrated Press in a Post-Compromise U.S. Political Culture.- 6. Dr. Curd Knüpfer, Freie Universität Berlin: The Challenge by Far-right Counter-publics as the Next Crisis of Public Communication.- 7. Dr Márton Bene, Centre for Social Sciences (TK PTI): The effect of the viralization of political communication on the crisis of public communication.- Section Three: The public sphere and citizen engagement.- 8. Dr. Tom Chivers and Prof. Stuart Allan, Cardiff University: Rethinking the public value of Public Service Broadcasting in the political communications freefall.- 9. Prof. William H. Dutton and Dr. Grant Blank (Oxford Internet Institute): Diversity of Sources in Democratic Communication: Speaking Comparatively.- 10. Prof. Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb: The Crisis of Public Communication in Hybrid Public Spheres and the Aspiration to Deliberative Democracy.- 11. Sang Jung Kim,, Yibing Sun, Zening Duan, Yooji Suh, Ruochong Fan, Mengyu Li, Erik Bucy, Porismita Borah, Josephine Lukito, Zhongkai Sun, Dhavan Shah: The Increasingly Contentious Spaces of Mediated Interaction: Aggressive Partisanship and Weakening Citizenship.-12. Author TBC: Afterword: The continuing legacy of Jay Blumler's work
