1st Edition

Cosmopolitanism and the New News Media

Edited By Lilie Chouliaraki, Bolette B. Blaagaard Copyright 2014
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

The Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Haiti earthquake are only some of the recent examples of the power of new media to transform journalism. Some celebrate this power as a new cosmopolitanism that challenges the traditional boundaries of foreign reporting, yet others fear that the new media simply reproduce old power relations in new ways. It is this important controversy... Read more

Preface Bob Franklin

Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and the new news media Lilie Chouliaraki and Bolette Blaagaard

1. Online Journalism and Civic Cosmopolitanism: Professional vs. participatory ideals Peter Dahlgren

2. Cosmopolitanism as Conformity and Contestation: The mainstream press and radical politics Natalie Fenton

3. Situated, Embodied and Political: Expressions of citizen journalism Bolette B. Blaagaard

4. Getting Closer?: Encounters of the national media with global images Mervi Pantti

5. ‘‘The World is Watching’’: The mediatic structure of cosmopolitanism Pheng Cheah

6. Journalists Witnessing Disaster: From the calculus of death to the injunction to care Simon Cottle

7. Humanitarian Campaigns in Social Media: Network architectures and polymedia events Mirca Madianou

8. Re-mediation, Inter-mediation, Trans-mediation: The cosmopolitan trajectories of convergent journalism Lilie Chouliaraki

Biography

Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her latest publications include The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the age of post-humanitarianism (2013), Self-mediation: new media, citizenship and civil selves (ed.) (2012), The Spectatorship of Suffering (2006/2011).

Bolette B. Blaagaard is Assistant Professor of Communications at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University London, UK. She has published internationally on the intersection of culture and journalism and is the co-editor of Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (2012) with Sandra Ponzanesi, and After Cosmopolitanism (2013) with Rosi Braidotti and Patrick Hanafin.