NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University is pleased to announce the publication of the second volume in the Center’s Everett C. Parker Book Series: Rethinking Media Pluralism by Kari Karppinen (Fordham University Press, 2013). This provocative new book argues that media pluralism needs to be rescued from its depoliticized uses and re-imagined more broadly as a normative value that refers to the distribution of communicative power in the public sphere. In Rethinking Media Pluralism, Kari Karppinen contends that the notions of media pluralism and diversity have been reduced to empty catchphrases or conflated with consumer choice and market competition. He suggests that in this narrow logic, key questions about social and political values, democracy, and citizenship are left unexamined. To solve this difficult issue, the author argues that media pluralism should be understood, instead, in terms of its ability to challenge inequalities and create a more democratic public sphere. This book will be valuable to scholars, students, activists, and media policy makers. According to The Institute for Information Law’s Natali Helberger, “uncertainty or disagreement over how to conceptualize media pluralism is a persistent stumbling block in academic and policy debates. Tackling this difficult issue is an important, brave and necessary exercise, and it is what this book does.” Kari Karppinen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Social Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include media and communication policy, media and democracy, political philosophy, and theories of the public sphere. He is currently working on a research project titled “Facing The Coordinating Challenge: Problems, Policies, and Politics in Media and Communication Regulation,” which is funded by the Academy of Finland. The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center conducts, supports, rewards, and disseminates research that informs the communications policymaking process and ethical decision-making in the management of media organizations. The McGannon Center seeks to contribute to the development of a tradition of rigorous research into media performance and media policy, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between the economic and the public service dimensions of media performance. More information about the McGannon Center and its activities can be found at the Center’s home page: http://www.fordham.edu/mcgannon. *The McGannon Center’s* *Everett C. Parker Book Series* is devoted to the publication of research that addresses social and ethical issues in communications policy. Published by Fordham University Press,<http://www.fordhampress.com/>this series seeks to publish research that can inform the work of policy makers, scholars, and students as they grapple with today's rapidly changing communications environment and the variety of policy issues arising within it. The series commemorates the work of Everett C. Parker, a founding figure in public interest communications policy activism, co-founder of the McGannon Center, and a pioneer in the linking of communications research with policy advocacy. Submission guidelines for the Everett C. Parker Book Series can be found at the McGannon Center’s home page, http://www.fordham.edu/mcgannon, by following the Everett C. Parker Book Series link.