This handbook brings together an interdisciplinary roster of scholars to address a broad range of pressing contemporary issues and debates that are raised by contemporary political, economic, institutional, and technological changes. These changes include:

• Increased democratic instability, with many once-stable democracies appearing to lose their footing, and political leaders with clear anti-democratic tendencies finding greater success in achieving power
• A rapidly evolving media ecosystem, that has seen increased economic instability for legacy journalism, the rise of alternative (and more partisan) news sources, and increases in the production and circulation of disinformation
• Technological changes such as the rise of digital platforms as gateways to news, and the emerging role of artificial intelligence in the realms of media, politics, and culture
  In response to these developments, the contributions to this volume address a wide range of topics, including: revisiting key norms and theoretical frameworks that guide research and policymaking; exploring causes and consequences of established and emerging inequities in media technology access and usage; examining the evolving dynamics of content creation; exploring the uses and abuses of data; analyzing the uses and impacts of artificial intelligence in the realms of media and politics; assessing the evolution of the production, circulation, and impact of disinformation; and considering the governance implications and strategies raised by these and other issues.

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Philip M. Napoli is the James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Professor Napoli's research focuses on media institutions and media regulation and policy. He has provided formal and informal expert testimony on these topics to diverse government bodies.

Robyn Caplan is an Assistant Professor of Technology Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Senior Lecturing Fellow in the Duke Initiative for Science and Society. She is also a founding member of the Platform Governance Research Network. She conducts research at the intersection of platform governance and media policy. Her research examines the impact of inter-and-intra-organizational behavior on platform governance and content moderation.

Kenneth Rogerson is Professor of the Practice at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy, and former Research Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University. He is currently the Director of the Technology Policy Minor in the Sanford School and the Director of the Digital Intelligence Certificate in the Duke Initiative for Science and Society. He has served as chair of the American Political Science Association's Information Technology and Politics Section and the International Studies Association's International Communication Section.