Alexa Robertson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University and has a PhD in political science. Her other books include Media and Politics in a Globalizing World (2015) and Mediated Cosmopolitanism: The World of Television News (2010).

Content: The Global Village and the Ivory Tower - Colliding Worlds - A World in Crisis: Atlas Reports - Brave New World: The problem of representation - Another World: Europe as Other - A World of Difference: Returning to the global village.