This book aims at exploring in a long historical perspective and in a wide historical context
the reactions of political institutions and players towards new media and new forms of
communication as well as their strategies in order to combat and or exploit their effects and
potential. This is an original and innovative attempt to combine traditional approaches to the
history of the media and politics with studies that aim to directly provide some historical
perspective on contemporary preoccupations with 'fake news' and manipulation of public opinion.
Addressing these topics by focusing on specific events and specific contexts as case studies
allows us to connect the hic et nunc dimension with the general trend of the history and verify
the particular effects of general long-term trends.
