Manuel Goyanes serves as Associate Professor of Research Methods at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His interdisciplinary work revolves around theoretically designing, and empirically testing, cutting-edge quantitative and qualitative methodological procedures to scientifically address challenging aspects of social science inquiry.Azahara Cañedo (PhD) serves as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication at University of Castilla-La Mancha, where she is a researcher of the research group Comunicación Pública: Poder, Derecho y Mensaje (Public Communication: Power, Law and Message).

• Part I.-Opinion Change and Democracy in Private Media. -Chapter 1. The Shift in Media Power: How Media Capture is Changing the Game. -Chapter 2. Misinformation Campaigns, Populism and the Role of Journalism. -Chapter 3. Journalistic Role Performance and Its Effects. -Chapter 4. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Their Effects: the Birth of an Alert Society. -Part II.- Opinion Change and Democracy in Public Service Media. -Chapter 5. Public Value and Liberal Democracies: the potential of Public Service Media as Islands of Trust in the Digital Public Sphere. -Chapter 6. Public Service Media and National Resilience in the Age of Information Disorders: A two-dimensional Conceptualization for Policy-making. -Chapter 7. The Role of Public Service Media in Democratic Engagement: An Audience Perspective. -Chapter 8. Citizenship on the Public Service Internet: Citizen’s Media Contribution to Reimagining Digital Democratic Communication. -Part III. -Opinion Change and Democracy in Social Media Platforms. -Chapter 9. Origin and Evolution of the News Finds Me Perception: Review of Theory and Effects. -Chapter 10. From Mass Media to Social Media: Political Persuasion in the Field of Communication. -Chapter 11. Fake News Exposure and Political Persuasion. -Chapter 12. Content Sharing Dynamics and Political Polarization in Social Media.