Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Crowds, agency and passion : reconsidering the roots of the social bond / Stephen Reicher -- "A swinish multitude" versus "a crowd of golden daffodils" / Jina Politi -- The masses as a "vanishing mediator" : class and politics in Duan Kovacevic's the Professional / Sean Homer -- Global networks and mass identifications -- Globality, the totalitarian mass, and national belonging / Effie Yiannopoulou -- Geographies of cultural globalization and cosmopolitanisms of the future / Joseph Michael Gratale -- "Touching everyone" : media identifications, imagined communities and new media technologies in the case of madeleine mccann / Nicola Rehling -- Swarm intelligence : blogging and on-line subjectivities / Holger Briel -- Epilogue: pluralities to come -- Ruth parkin-gounelas -- Contributors -- References -- Index…”
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