Slavko Splichal is Professor of Communication and Public Opinion in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a fellow of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is Founder and Director of the European Institute for Communication and Culture and Editor of its journal Javnost - The Public.

• Part I: Publicness and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age 1. Publicness–Privateness: The Liquefaction of "The Great Dichotomy" 2. Debunking Deference: The Delusions of Unmediated Reality in the Contemporary Public Sphere 3. Media, Knowledge and Trust: The Deepening Epistemic Crisis of Democracy 4. Fake Democracy: The Limits of Public Sphere Theory 5. Visibility and the Public Sphere: A Normative Conceptualisation 6. Refeudalisation Revisited: The Destruction of Deliberative Democracy 7. Standpoint, Mediation and the Working-Class Public Sphere 8. Dissonant and Disconnected Public Spheres as Challenge for Political Communication Research 9. A Youth-Driven Virtual Civic Public Sphere for the Arab World 10. Family Feud: Who’s Still Fighting about Dewey and Lippmann? Part II: Democracy and the Crisis of Public Communication 11. The Crisis of Public Communication, 1995–2017 12. Democracy and the Internet: A Retrospective 13. Post-Globalisation 14. Modern Political Communication and Web 2.0 in Representative Democracies 15. Revisiting Digital News Audiences with a Political Magnifying Glass 16. Translation as Politics 17. The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse 18. Post-Communism, Democratisation and the Media: (Nearly) Thirty Years On 19. Putin’s Slangy Newspeak as a Paradox of His Public Communication 20. Digital Media, Contentious Politics and Party Systems in Italy and Spain 21. The Detached Observer: On a Necessary Change to the Self-Image of Journalists in the Digital World Part III: Communication and Media Research in Scientific and Social Practice 22. The Double Hermeneutics of Communication Research 23. Fast-Capitalist Veils from Communication Theory for "The Public" and Its "Discourse" 24. Reframing the Paradox of Pluralism as a Communication Problem 25. New Technologies, Old Questions: The Enduring Issues of Communications Research 26. A Critical Perspective on the Post-Internet World 27. Communication Research: Resignation or Optimism? 28. On Human Communication 29. Studying Political Economies of Communication in the Twenty-First Century 30. Expanding the Epistemological Horizon: Institutionalised Visual Knowledge and Human Rights 31. Researching Fake News: A Selective Examination of Empirical Studies 32. Gendering Media Policy Research and Communication Governance