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Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism and the Media explores the diverse implications of today's digital media environments in relation to people's worldviews and social practices. The book presents an empirically grounded account of the relationship between cosmopolitanized lifeworlds and forces of surveillance, control and mobility.
Trade Review“Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies of Change explores the impact of mainstream media, in particular, digital media, on people's cosmopolitan worldviews and social practices and, vice versa: how cosmopolitan practices are connected to media framing. … The book provides a nice balance of the relationship between mediatized cosmopolitan life-worlds and forces of surveillance, control and mobility, etc.” (Weiwu Zhang, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol.47, January-March, 2016)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements PART I: MAPPING THE TERRAIN: BOUNDARIES AND BRIDGES 1. Introductory Essay: Cosmopolitanization, Mediatization and Social Change 2. Cosmopolitan Trajectories: Connectivity, Reflexivity and Symbolic Power 3. Remediated Sociality and the Dual Logic of Surveillance PART II: CONTEXTUALIZING SPACE, MOBILITY AND BELONGING 4. Transnational Media Flows: Globalization, Politics and Identity 5. Transclusion vs. Demediation: Mediatization and the Re-Embedding of Cosmopolitanism 6. Cities, Embodied Expressivity and Morality of Proximity 7. In Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents References Index
