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Cosmopolitanism and the Media explores the diverse implications of today's digital media environment in relation to people's worldviews and social practices. The book presents an account of the relationship between cosmopolitanized lifeworlds and forces of surveillance, control and mobility, as well as a critique of social power and reproduction in our mediatized society. Whereas existing literature on media and cosmopolitanism mostly focuses on how media texts shape their audiences' dispositions, this book engages with people and their actual uses of media in an increasingly complex world. Based on several years of fieldwork in different settings, it shows how cosmopolitan values and ideas fluctuate over time and are differently attuned depending on socio-cultural environments. Sometimes cosmopolitanism is directly linked to power and privilege, and sometimes not. It is also demonstrated how technological possibilities might lead in significantly different directions, most often sustaining further social reproduction and commoditized 'multiculturalism' rather than the opening of cosmopolitan horizons.
