An imagined community is a group of people who are interconnected and bonded by a commonality. They need not have met but in a sense feel tied together through a common circumstance, event or point of view. An imagined community is not bound by geographical location (Srinivasan 2006) but can be influenced by it as a result of globalization:
In the ilecture Dr Jayaprakash described Appadurai’s 5 dimension of globalization as:
Ethnoscapes – the flow of people through immigration, refugees , tourism etc
Technoscapes – rapid movements of technology
Financescape – flow of currency - markets and stock exchange
Mediascapes – flow of images and information via newspapers, TV, websites etc
Ideascapes – the spread of thought such as the western enlightenment world view - ideas of democracy and freedom etc
(Jayaprakash 2011)
Imagined communities’ form based on common influences, experiences or attitudes as a result of the global dispersion of information, ideas, images and cultures across national borders.
Jayaprakash, T. 2011. Media across Cultural Boundaries. Week 7: Engaging Media. http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?-MaxRecords=50&-SkipRecords=0&-Op=bw&ut=2908&CallbackID=928d2167f0cc56656c84409b4f366e45&usr=15055147 (accessed 17/10/11).
Srinivasan, R. 2006. Indigenous, ethnic and cultural articulations of new media. International Journal of Cultural Studies 9: 497. http://ics.sagepub.com/content/9/4/497 (accessed 15/10/11).
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