Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Global Events and Public Pedagogy -- Media Reception -- Public Pedagogy -- Global Citizenship Education -- What Lies Ahead -- References -- Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Global Event -- Global Concerts -- The Origins of the Global Concert: Concert for Bangladesh -- The Global Concert Refined: Live Aid -- The Modern Global Concert: Live 8 and Beyond -- Global Film Festivals -- Origins and Purposes of Film Festivals -- Globalization and Film Festivals -- Global Events and Twenty-First-Century Engagement -- A History of Social Networks -- Social Networks: How Do They Connect and Inform? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Global Concerts: More Music, Less Message -- Global Concerts and Global Citizenship -- Methods -- Context -- 2019 and 2021 -- The Crowd -- Insights -- What Does It Mean to Be a Global Citizen Who Attends a Global Citizen Concert? -- The Experience -- The Results -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Viewing, Not Doing: Film Festivals on Global Problems -- Thematic Global Film Festivals -- Methods -- The Festivals -- Insights -- The Setting Shapes the Agenda -- Program as Curriculum -- Auxiliary Events-Less Viewing, More Doing -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: At-Home Events: Global Engagement in the Twenty-First Century? -- Global Engagement in the Digital Age -- Digital Age Global Events -- Global Hashtag Events -- Kony 2012 -- #BringBackOurGirls -- At-Home Events -- One World: Together at Home -- Global Goal: Unite for Our Future -- Global Civic Goals -- COVID-19 and You -- Global to Local -- Scientific Learning about COVID-19 -- Ordinary Heroes -- Leaders Must Act -- Engagement -- Impact -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 6: Learnings from Global Events -- Insights into Three Dynamics -- D1-Reinscription of North/South Dichotomies within the Frame of One, Polyphonous World -- D2-Cursory Awareness and Surface, Spectacle Learning of Complex Issues in the Plebiscite of an Emerging Global Public -- D3-A Motif of Sustainable Consumerism Foreclosing Deeper Structural Changes -- References -- Index.