Political Communication in Challenging Times.

The knowledge political communication scholars can provide is in high demand, helping regulators, politicians, and citizens to make sense of a seemingly crazy, unhinged world unfolding around them. However, there is a lot we still need to learn. To many of the burning questions concerning digital societies, scholars have to respond with: We have no clue! This Welcome Note by the incoming editor of The Forum outlines some of the "known unkowns" and "unknown unkowns" of current political communication research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]