[Air-L] Imagined communities

[Larissa Hjorth]

Dear Philippa
I would definitely suggest the wonderful work of Maria Bakardjieva.
I have attempted (in my own feeble way) to re-deploy Anderson's rubric as a series of micro 'imaging communities' in the context of mobile media and Web 2.0 in the Asia-Pacific in my forthcoming book, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge). 
Best
Larissa



>>> "Philippa Smith" <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz> 28/11/08 12:59 PM >>>
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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