Cover -- Contents -- Introduction (Aybige Yilmaz and Ruxandra Trandafoiu) -- Cosmopolitanism, Media and Everyday Life -- Media, Morality and Cosmopolitanism -- Emerging Research -- Media and Cosmopolitanism -- References -- 'The World on a Plate': Transformed Cosmopolitan Utopia in Food Blog Culture (Ruxandra Trandafoiu) -- Defining a Culinary Cosmopolitan Utopia -- At Home in the World -- 'Accented' Food -- Conclusion -- References -- Food Blogs -- Interviews -- Potential Cosmopolitan Sensibilities in Feminized and Mediated Remembrance (Maggie Andrews) -- Conclusion -- References -- 'Welcome Europe!' The Eurovision Song Contest as a Continuum for Cosmopolitanism (Phil Jackson) -- The Cosmopolitan Continuum -- From the EBU to the ESC -- Public Service Media: Democratization Through Song -- The Branding of the ESC -- A Contrived Cosmopolitanism? -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Timeline of Participation -- The Cosmopolitan City: Music and Mediation During the European Capital of Culture Event (Simone Krüger) -- Constructing the Cosmopolitan City -- Performing the Cosmopolitan City -- Orientalism, Exoticism and Stereotyping Scousers -- Cosmopolitanism in the Post-Industrial City -- Conclusion -- References -- The Local Relevance of Global Suffering: Articulations of Identities and Cosmopolitanism in Television News Discourses on Distant Suffering (Stijn Joye) -- Mediated Suffering and Identities of the Self and the Other -- News Discourses and Regimes of Pity -- Methodology -- Text -- An Identity of the Self -- An Identity of the Other -- An Identity of the Domesticated Other -- Discursive Practices -- Social Practices -- Conclusion -- References -- AIDS, Africa and Popular Culture: Mediated Cosmopolitanism in a Neoliberal Era (Ludek Stavinoha) -- Normative Violence and the Mediation of Distant Suffering -- Images of Africa.

AIDS in Africa and the Uses of Liberal Humanism -- Product RED -- Digital Death -- Post-Humanitarianism and the Denial of Voice -- Structural Violence and the Erasure of History -- From Positive to Negative Duties: Cosmopolitanism and the Global AIDS Movement -- Conclusion -- References -- Encountering Distant Others? Reconsidering the Appearance of International Coverage for the Study of Mediated Cosmopolitanism (Martin Scott) -- Studying the Appearance of Distant Others -- Capturing Encounters -- Non-News Television Content -- Television News -- Encountering Distant Others? -- The Appearance of Distant Others in UK Television News -- The Appearance of Distant Others in Non-News Television -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- The Simulation of Suffering: Armchair Tragedy Tourism and International Memorials in Second Life (Lizzie D. Falvey) -- Tragedy Tourism Destinations in Second Life -- Education/Initial Exposure -- Immersion Through Interactivity -- Sensitization and Identification with Victims' Perspective -- Encouraging Empathy and Action -- End Effects of Change -- References -- Cosmopolitan Vision, Global Responsibility and Local Reporting in Ukraine (Olga Baysha and Andrew Calabrese) -- Is there a Global Journalistic Ethic? -- Kharkov Deforestation: Local or Global? -- 'We Just Don't Feel As If We Belong to a Bigger World' -- Q1: How did the politico-economic structure of Kharkov media influence the way Kharkov journalists constructed news on the Gorky Park deforestation? -- Q2: Did Kharkov journalists manage to frame for themselves and to present for their audiences the Gorky Park deforestation as an issue related to global environmental concerns?.

Q3: How did the way Kharkov journalists frame the news on the Gorky Park deforestation correspond to the traditional norms of journalistic ethics adopted in the Anglo-Saxon world - truthfulness, accuracy, and objectivity? -- Q4: How did nationalistic or patriotic feelings of Kharkov journalists impact the way they framed the news on the Gorky Park deforestation? -- When We Are Unable to See Global Problems as Our Common Concerns -- References -- 'Not' Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Media Ethics, Morality and Media Freedom a la Turca (Aybige Yilmaz) -- Cosmopolitanism as a Methodology -- Meanwhile, Cosmopolitanization Elsewhere … -- Media Ethics - But Not As You Know It -- 'Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance …' -- References -- Trauma, Mediation, Global Crisis (Aris Mousoutzanis) -- Trauma and Mediation -- Trauma and Globalization -- References -- Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism Now (Aris Mousoutzanis) -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.