Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on issues of intersections of journalism, geography, and power, and appears in Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. He is editor of The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy (Routledge, 2018).

Kristy Hess is an Associate Professor in Communication at Deakin University, Australia. She studies journalism (especially at the local level) and its relationship to social connection and place-making, often through a lens of media power. Her work appears in leading international journalism and media journals, she is the author of two monographs, and she is the Associate Editor of Digital Journalism.

This book examines journalism's ability to promote and foster cohesive and collective action while critically examining its place in the intensifying battle to maintain society's social order. This book was first published as two special issues, in Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice.

Introduction-Contesting Communities: The problem of journalism and social order 1. Journalism and the "Social Sphere": Reclaiming a foundational concept for beyond politics and the public sphere 2. From Control to Chaos, and Back Again: Journalism and the politics of populist authoritarianism 3. Populism, Journalism, and the Limits of Reflexivity: The case of Donald J. Trump 4. Migration Maps with the News: Guidelines for ethical visualization of mobile populations 5. Veritable Flak Mill: A case study of Project Veritas and a call for truth 6. Re-Thinking Trust in the News: A material approach through "Objects of Journalism" 7. Community Repair through Truce and Contestation: Danish legacy print media and the Copenhagen shootings 8. Diverging Projections of Reality: Amplified frame competition via distinct modes of journalistic production 9. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model to Explain to Whom "#Black Lives Matter" ...and to Whom it Does not 10. Coverage of the Surgical Strike on Television News in India: Nationalism, journalistic discourse and India-Pakistan conflict 11. Please Follow Us: Media roles in Twitter discussions in the United States, Germany, France, and Russia 12. And Deliver Us to Segmentation: The growing appeal of the niche news audience 13. Nurturing Authority: Reassessing the social role of local television news 14. "Tightening the Knots" of the International Drugs Trade in Brazil: Possibilities and challenges for news media to acquire social capital through in-depth reporting