Contents Aybige Yilmaz and Ruxandra Trandafoiu Introduction 1 Ruxandra Trandafoiu ‘The World on a Plate’: Transformed Cosmopolitan Utopia in Food Blog Culture 29 Maggie Andrews Potential Cosmopolitan Sensibilities in Feminized and Mediated Remembrance 51 Phil Jackson ‘Welcome Europe!’ The Eurovision Song Contest as a Continuum for Cosmopolitanism 71 Simone Krüger The Cosmopolitan City: Music and Mediation During the European Capital of Culture Event 93 Stijn Joye The Local Relevance of Global Suffering : Articulations of Identities and Cosmopolitanism in Television News Discourses on Distant Suffering 121 Ludek Stavinoha AIDS, Africa and Popular Culture: Mediated Cosmopolitanism in a Neoliberal Era 141