[Air-L] Imagined communities

[Jonathan Marshall]

For what it is worth i'd also recommend looking at some of Anderson's later work ie 

1992) Long Distance Nationalism: World Capitalism and the Rise of Identity
Politics, CASA, Amsterdam.

(1994) “Exodus”, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 20, Winter, pp 314-27

from memory these are about the kinds of effects long-distance community has on the 'homeland' and the construction of national identities

and to self promote although perhaps not quite relevantly as there is only a passing reference to anderson, there is quite a bit about national identities, community and so on, and their construction and effects in an internet group, in my ethnography: 'Living on Cybermind' Peter Lang 2007.

jon 


> I'm seeking out references to Benedict Anderson's theory of "imagined 
> communities" in relation to the Internet and how new technologies 
> enable the construction of national identities.  Certainly this is 
> mentioned in  Ananda Mitra's chapter "Virtual Commonality: Looking for 
> India on the Internet"  in Virtual Culture edited by Steven Jones and 
> in S. Jones' chapter in the same book "The Internet and its Social 
> Landscape.   Mark Poster (1999)  National Identities and 
> Communications Technologies in The Information Society 15:4, 235-240 
> is another reference.  But if there are any other references where 
> people apply the theory in their research or discuss it please let me 
> know.
>   
>  Many thanks.
>   
>  Philippa Smith
>  PhD Candidate
>  Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication
>  AUT University
>  Auckland 
>  New Zealand
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