Machine generated contents note: 1.Media Representation and the Global Imagination: A Framework -- I.Premises -- What are media representations? -- What `work' do media representations do? -- Why do media representations matter? -- II.Challenges -- Desperately seeking the power of media representations -- A compartmentalized field -- Globalization and research on media representations: Mind the gaps -- III.Global Imagination -- Conclusion: Towards a Critical Study of Media Representation and the Global Imagination -- 2.Imagining Others: Representations of Natural Disasters -- Introduction -- Global Imagination and Narratives of the Other -- Imagining Distant Others in Natural Disasters -- Lisbon Earthquake, 1755 -- Representing Lisbon Earthquake -- From Quill Pen to Recording Studio - Voltaire with a Twist -- `We Are The World', 1985 - the African famine -- `We Are The World', 2010 - the Haiti earthquake -- Conclusion -- Mediated proximity and intimacy -- The individual other --

Contents note continued: Symbolic space of contestation -- 3.Imagining Ourselves: Representations of the Nation -- Introduction -- Imagining the Nation: Between Identification and Symbolic Distancing, Attachment and Estrangement -- The French riots -- Temporality, exposure and placement -- Competing frames -- Particularity and generalizability -- Invisibility and visibility of the other, what they mean for the vision of ourselves -- The Consequences of Estrangement -- Conclusion -- 4.Imagining Possible Lives: Representations of Migration -- Possible Lives: Dreams and Nightmares -- Dreams -- Nightmares -- Beyond Dreams and Nightmares: Ambivalent and Incomplete Imaginings of Possible Lives -- Conclusion -- 5.Imagining the World: Representations of New Year Celebrations -- New Year Celebrations: A Global Media Event -- International News Reporting of New Year Celebrations around the World -- The world as a space of sameness --

Contents note continued: The world as a competitive space marked by distinction -- Alternative Cartographic Consciousnesses -- CCTV Chinese New Year gala -- Gaza diary: Welcoming the New Year -- Conclusion -- 6.Imagining the Self -- Imagining the Other/Imagining the Self -- Imagining the Nation/Imagining the Self -- Imagining Possible Lives/Imagining the Self -- Imagining the World/Imagining the Self -- Identification, immersion, embodiment and navigation in space -- Uncertainty, ephemerality and spatial confusion -- Conclusion -- 7.Conclusion: Nothing Gets You Closer Revisited -- The Desire to Defeat Distance Revisited -- The value of distance -- The value of degrees of proximity and different modes of achieving it -- The value of intimacy at a distance -- The Desire to Remove the Medium Revisited -- The Desire for Completeness, Coherence and Closure Revisited.