ABSTRACT
Two strong forces have had a clear impact on contemporary documentary film and television, as well as people's societies and cultures in general, especially since the 1990s: mediatization through digital technologies and globalization. Mediatization refers to a situation in which media systems have been imbedded so deeply in people's society, culture, and everyday life that they create a new logic of communication and interaction. The notion of cosmopolitanism dates back to the Enlightenment, but the concept also has roots in antique Greek philosophy and non-Western religions and philosophy. The national and local are not disappearing, but in a world of increased interconnectedness and communication, people need to develop an analytical and interpretive framework for understanding the transnational imagined communities or imaginaries established through migration and mediated global narratives. The funding and co-production structure of the film is also somewhat different from the profiles of the two other films. The contemporary documentary agenda is among other things a cosmopolitan, global agenda.
