Public Interest Communication: Critical Contexts and Global Perspectives, an introduction by Jane Johnston and Magda Pieczka; Part I: Critical debates; 1. Public interest communication: A framework for systematic inquiry, By Jane Johnston and Magda Pieczka; 2. Terministic dialectics of individual and community agency: Co-creating and co-enacting the public interest, By Bob Heath and Damian Waymer, 3. Communicating public engagement, public interest and participation: Culturally centering community voices, By Mohan J Dutta, 4. Climate change and the public interest: Science, legitimacy and diversity, By Mhairi Aitken, 5. Commercial media platforms and the challenges to public expression and scrutiny, By Nicholas Carah; Part II: Global contexts; 6. Articulating national identity in postcolonial democracies: Defining relations and interests through competing publics, By T. Kenn Gaither and Patricia A.

Curtin; 7. In whose interests? Media, political communication and First Nations Australians, By Jane Johnston, Susan Forde & Boni Robertson; 8. Understanding the public interest puzzle in China's public relations: The role of balance and counterbalance based on Confucian Great Harmony, By Jenny Hou, 9. Security, democratic legitimacy and the public interest: Policing and the communicative ritual in deeply divided societies, By Ian Somerville and Scott Davidson; 10. Lobbying for life: Violence against the press and the public interest, By Julieta Brambila and Jairo Lugo Ocando.