Media and Cosmopolitanism

Aybige Yilmaz is Head of the Department of Film, TV and Media at Kingston University. Her areas of research and publication include gendered representations of national identity; gender, consumer culture and individualism; and globalization and cosmopolitanism.
Ruxandra Trandafoiu is Reader in Communication at Edge Hill University. She is the author of Diaspora Online: Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants (2013) and co-editor of The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism (2013). She also researches Roma rights in the European Union, European identity, media representations of the European Union, and the legal and symbolic relationship between diasporic communities and nation-states.
Aris Mousoutzanis is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Brighton. His areas of research and publication include representations of trauma in literature, film and television; popular media genres (science fiction and the Gothic); and digital media and globalization. He is currently researching the relationship between trauma theory and media cultures.

Contents: Ruxandra Trandafoiu: 'The World on a Plate': Transformed Cosmopolitan Utopia in Food Blog Culture - Maggie Andrews: Potential Cosmopolitan Sensibilities in Feminized and Mediated Remembrance - Phil Jackson: 'Welcome Europe!' The Eurovision Song Contest as a Continuum for Cosmopolitanism - Simone Krüger: The Cosmopolitan City: Music and Mediation During the European Capital of Culture Event - Stijn Joye: The Local Relevance of Global Suffering: Articulations of Identities and Cosmopolitanism in Television News Discourses on Distant Suffering - Ludek Stavinoha: AIDS, Africa and Popular Culture: Mediated Cosmopolitanism in a Neoliberal Era - Martin Scott: Encountering Distant Others? Reconsidering the Appearance of International Coverage for the Study of Mediated Cosmopolitanism - Lizzie D. Falvey: The Simulation of Suffering: Armchair Tragedy Tourism and International Memorials in Second Life - Olga Baysha/Andrew Calabrese: Cosmopolitan Vision, Global Responsibility and Local Reporting in Ukraine - Aybige Yilmaz: 'Not' Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Media Ethics, Morality and Media Freedom a la Turca - Aris Mousoutzanis: Trauma, Mediation, Global Crisis - Aris Mousoutzanis: Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism Now.