Mediated Cosmopolitanism: The World of Television NewsISBN: 978-0-7456-4947-4
Hardcover
216 pages
June 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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European Journal of Communication
"We live in an increasingly interconnected and precarious global
age. Today's media have an incredibly important part to play in
recognizing how distant others are not so different from ourselves
and in imagining how our world should be. Alexa Robertson's
Mediated Cosmopolitanism lucidly and impressivley explores
the complexities and opportunities involved."
Simon Cottle, Cardiff University
"Most media organisations are cutting budgets for overseas
reporting. Yet globalisation is making the world ever more
inter-dependent. Robertson's book is a fascinating study of how
viewers can 'recognise and identify with the distant Others who
populate their television screens'. It is essential reading for
practitioners as well as scholars."
James Painter, University of Oxford
"This is a most welcome contribution to the analysis of the place
of media discourses within the unfolding process of cultural
globalization, and to the literature on cosmopolitanism more
generally. This book is a model of organization, which maintains
both its focus and its impetus throughout, and which continuously
engages the reader with vivid exemplifications of complex
moral-cultural debates."
John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent University
"Alexa Robertson offers a subtle and nuanced account of
television news reporting and its audiences, showing how
cosmopolitan sentiments are mediated through televisual
storytelling and the popular imagination. A must-read book for all
those interested in mass media, culture and politics in an epoch of
globalization."
Robert Holton, Trinity College Dublin