Bringing together an impressive range of leading theorists in the field of journalism and media studies, this collection explores how Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and You Tube are taking the voice of ordinary citizens into the forefront of mainstream journalism and how, in so doing, they give shape to new public conceptions of authenticity and solidarity.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.

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

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.