Local profiles in cross-generational analysis: introduction / Ingrid Volkmer -- Australia / Christina Slade -- Austria / Theo Hug -- Germany / Gebhard Rusch and Ingrid Volkmer -- India / Keval J. Kumar -- Japan / Reiko Sekiguchi -- Mexico / Margarita Maass, Daniela Rivera, and Andres Hofman -- South Africa / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- USA / Matthew D. Payne, Jill Dianne Swenson, and Thomas W. Bohn -- Czech Republic / Jan Jirk -- Comparative analysis across generations and cultures perceptions and memories of the media context / Christina Slade -- Construction of memory / Keval J. Kumar, Theo Hug, and Gebhard Rusch -- Memory and markers: collective memory and newsworthiness / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- Conclusion: globalization, generational entelechies, and the global public space / Ingrid Volkmer.