Media Studies A-Level
Imagined communities
What Imagined communities means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Imagined communities
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A concept associated with Benedict Anderson's account of nationalism, proposing that a nation is a community imagined by its members, who will never meet most fellow members yet conceive of a shared identity.
Topics that use Imagined communities
- Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience negotiation and hybridisation
- Belonging and exclusion
- Centre and periphery
- Cultural imperialism
- Dominant culture and marginalisation
- Marginalisation
- Media and collective identity
- Orientalism
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