"First, the book looks at media and propaganda through the lens of different disciplines, ranging across communication and media studies, journalism studies, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, history, gender studies, information and library science, literature, and platform studies. Recognizing that disciplinary prisms offer alternative insights for thinking about any topic, the book situates media and propaganda at the center of multiple disciplinary conversations. Second, the book underscores how central propaganda is for understanding contemporary public communication across the Global North and Global South. It offers both capacious surveys of its parameters in Europe, North Asia, and Africa, as well as targeted discussions of China and the United States. Providing a broad examination of the traits and permutations that make today’s information disorder into one of the most critical current problems on a global scale, it forces to the foreground questions about how the intersection of media and propaganda differs widely across place and geography. Third, the events this book revisits are vast: the Great War, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Cold War, electoral violence in Kenya and other East African countries, the Rwandan genocide, the invasion of Ukraine, and the Israel-Gaza war. It alights on settings that range from functioning or cobbled democracies to autocratic regimes, from commercial platforms to political activism. And it probes topics like enmity, free speech and academic freedom, commercial ethics, misogyny and sexual violence, stereotypes and images, the mechanisms and strategies of propaganda, and the evolution of propaganda’s conceptualization. Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation is organized across three sections: Laying the Groundwork for Thinking About Media and Propaganda; Alternative Spaces for Thinking About Media and Propaganda; and Current Challenges for Thinking About Media and Propaganda." (On the centrality of propaganda, page 9)