A brief overview of Benedict Anderson's theory of 'Imagined Communities'.

The 'Media & Culture Podcast' was created as part of a research assignment for Monash University. Further episodes will not be made available for this podcast.

References

Anderson, B, 2006, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, Verso books.

Coleman, E 2020, ATS1279 Media and Culture: Communication as Culture, online course materials, Semester 1, 2020, Monash University

Coleman, E 2020, ATS1279 Media and Culture: Mythology – The Popular Imagination, online course materials, Semester 1, 2020, Monash University

Hodkinson, P 2017, Media, culture and society: an introduction, 2nd ed, Sage Publications, London.

ThoughtCo 2011, Amazing 15th Century Inventions, online image, viewed 26 March 2020, https://www.thoughtco.com/15th-century-timeline-1992477

University of Oslo 2020, Benedict Anderson: “I like nationalism’s utopian elements”, viewed 25 March 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20161125065519/https://www.uio.no/english/research/interfaculty-research-areas/culcom/news/2005/anderson.html

Wikipedia 2011, Imagined community, viewed 25 March 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community

Wikipedia 2011, Printing press, viewed 25 March 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press#Mass_production_and_spread_of_printed_books

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