Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation

An innovative and engaging collection that argues that the concept of propaganda needs to be central to discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems.

Nelson Ribeiro is Professor of Communication Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal. Among other publications, he is the author of "Broadcasting Agency in the Portuguese Empire: Disrupting the Dominant Discourse through Media Tactics," in Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century (2024), co-author of The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting (2022), and co-editor of Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age (2021).
Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, USA. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work on journalism, culture, memory, and images, particularly in times of crisis. She has authored 15 books, including the award-winning About To Die: How News Images Move the Public (2010) and Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye (1998). Her upcoming book is entitled How the Cold War Broke the News (2025).